Wednesday, May 6, 2009

San Francisco

Early Friday morning saw Katrina and I on our way. First with a drive to the airport, than the flight out, after a 20 minute fog delay. Evidently, after a beautiful week, the fog, rain and cool weather arrived in San Francisco with us. It stuck like glue throughout the weekend.

The weekend was a wonderful mix of seeing the sights (with lots of walking!), visiting, and eating. and eating.


Here are some of the fun colored, beautiful houses that cover the city.

We began, after checking in at our adorable inn, with crepes (delicious!) and some wandering of the Hayes Valley neighborhood shops. We were set to meet Erin-Andy's girlfriend-for supper, and they had decided to take us to *ack!* sushi! This lead us to the Japantown area. While wandering there I found Dr. Seuss in Japanese! After the sushi, we grabbed some dessert, then were off to bed.

Me, Andy, Erin and Katrina at a point overlooking the Golden Gate Bridge.

Saturday we spent the morning in a few more shops, met a friend of Andy's for lunch, then headed to the ocean.


Ocean Beach: Katrina, Andy and I. We were only asked about 5 or 6 times by completely random people if we were siblings...

A crab shell

Next: The Muir Woods. Absolutely spectacular redwood forest.
We were told the drive there is also beautiful...the fog kept us from enjoying it.

Andy, in awe of the magnificence.

I've never before seen the point of umbrella stands. Here in MN, when it rains, an umbrella only keeps your top half from getting wet, so why bother keeping them by the front door? But, I've discovered that there truly are places that require one to own an umbrella. One of our first stops when we arrived was to purchase umbrellas for Katrina and I. San Fran gets many-day-long, spitting, misting rain. For that type an umbrella works wonderfully, allowing you to enjoy the outdoors in spite of it. Even the shops and have stands for your umbrellas right inside the door.

A BIG tree.

After the beautiful, but damp Muir Woods, we stopped in Sausalito for seafood. This time they fed us *ack again!* oysters! (Yum, they're much better than sushi.) I also had the most delicious clam chowder ever. Warmed me to the bone!


Consider this the first installment.
I've got a little work to do on a few photos, most of them so far are straight off of camera.



3 comments:

Cheryl said...

Nice pictures! Looks like you had fun!

Anonymous said...

love the blur on "andy and his umbrella". been to the muir woods once---aren't they breathtaking?
~ann b.

Natalie said...

Neat pictures! Would like to go there some day.