San Francisco!
I went to San Francisco last weekend to visit Funty, who's on the verge of moving back to Boston. It was fun!
Highlights:
- Funty, obviously. I also saw Jeremiah (Sunday brunch) and Ben (Monday lunch break - he and Funty work together), and met a bunch of Funty's friends.
- So much food. A Mexican restaurant Friday night; a sourdough pizza Saturday noonish at Fisherman's Wharf; an ice cream sundae at Ghirardelli Square shortly afterward; a Japanese restaurant (Izakaya Kou) for Duaa's birthday dinner Saturday night; birthday cake after that; a dim sum place for Sunday brunch; an Italian restaurant (the Sausage Factory) for Sunday dinner; a cookie from Hot Cookie after that; the "Impossible Burger" (which I had read about in The New York Times, but had not expected to ever try myself) for lunch on Monday at a place called the Cockscomb. I, uh, gained some weight.
- So, so much rain. Especially Saturday morning, but really the whole weekend.
- Funty has a rugby team?? So we went to watch them play.
- We saw wild sea lions! They just hang out on Pier 39 like it's no big deal. And birds and turtles (and sculptures) at the Palace of Fine Arts. Oh, and wild crabs at Fort Point when I climbed down onto the rocks (which Funty declined to do, but afterward we managed to see some that were visible from the sidewalk).
- We saw where the trolley turns around! On a turntable! Pushed by a person! Funty did not find this nearly as exciting as I did. :-P
- Museum-wise, I mentioned Fort Point (an old fort by the southern end of the Golden Gate Bridge) and the Palace of Fine Arts (preserved/restored from the 1915 Panama-Pacific Exposition) above. We also went to the Legion of Honor, which is an art museum that Crysta had recommended. And being me, I of course read various historic markers as I wandered about (especially on Monday morning when Funty was at work). Apparently part of the reason the San Francisco fire was so bad was that the earthquake had ruptured the water mains. So after that, they set up pumping stations that firefighters could use to pump saltwater out of the Bay.
- We went to the Castro (including looking around a sex shop, since that is apparently part of the Castro experience?).
- We tried to go to Whole Foods (to buy a birthday cake for Duaa), but there was no parking. San Francisco indeed. :-) So we went elsewhere.
- Of course, not everything we did was terribly specific to San Francisco. We went to the arcade at Pier 39, where we played Grand Piano Tiles (kind of like Guitar Hero), Skee-Ball, air hockey, and an Old-West-themed rifle-target-practice game; we watched the first several episodes of The OA (which Funty had seen and wanted to share); and Funty had me play the game Portal, which I'd heard of but had never tried.
Highlights:
- Funty, obviously. I also saw Jeremiah (Sunday brunch) and Ben (Monday lunch break - he and Funty work together), and met a bunch of Funty's friends.
- So much food. A Mexican restaurant Friday night; a sourdough pizza Saturday noonish at Fisherman's Wharf; an ice cream sundae at Ghirardelli Square shortly afterward; a Japanese restaurant (Izakaya Kou) for Duaa's birthday dinner Saturday night; birthday cake after that; a dim sum place for Sunday brunch; an Italian restaurant (the Sausage Factory) for Sunday dinner; a cookie from Hot Cookie after that; the "Impossible Burger" (which I had read about in The New York Times, but had not expected to ever try myself) for lunch on Monday at a place called the Cockscomb. I, uh, gained some weight.
- So, so much rain. Especially Saturday morning, but really the whole weekend.
- Funty has a rugby team?? So we went to watch them play.
- We saw wild sea lions! They just hang out on Pier 39 like it's no big deal. And birds and turtles (and sculptures) at the Palace of Fine Arts. Oh, and wild crabs at Fort Point when I climbed down onto the rocks (which Funty declined to do, but afterward we managed to see some that were visible from the sidewalk).
- We saw where the trolley turns around! On a turntable! Pushed by a person! Funty did not find this nearly as exciting as I did. :-P
- Museum-wise, I mentioned Fort Point (an old fort by the southern end of the Golden Gate Bridge) and the Palace of Fine Arts (preserved/restored from the 1915 Panama-Pacific Exposition) above. We also went to the Legion of Honor, which is an art museum that Crysta had recommended. And being me, I of course read various historic markers as I wandered about (especially on Monday morning when Funty was at work). Apparently part of the reason the San Francisco fire was so bad was that the earthquake had ruptured the water mains. So after that, they set up pumping stations that firefighters could use to pump saltwater out of the Bay.
- We went to the Castro (including looking around a sex shop, since that is apparently part of the Castro experience?).
- We tried to go to Whole Foods (to buy a birthday cake for Duaa), but there was no parking. San Francisco indeed. :-) So we went elsewhere.
- Of course, not everything we did was terribly specific to San Francisco. We went to the arcade at Pier 39, where we played Grand Piano Tiles (kind of like Guitar Hero), Skee-Ball, air hockey, and an Old-West-themed rifle-target-practice game; we watched the first several episodes of The OA (which Funty had seen and wanted to share); and Funty had me play the game Portal, which I'd heard of but had never tried.