I scoot back to the expo to make sure I did not miss anything and pick up breakfast on the way back. The guys at Posh Bagels know me so well by now and my order that all I need say is give me the same as before.
After reading our fortunes for the day we head to the Golden Gate Bridge and Sausalito. Lewis does the driving and I am navigating. On our way to the bridge we see Lombard Street coming up and decide to take a turn down the twisty street. Donny is ready to take away our driving privileges but it's not really that scary. There are steeper streets in the city.
Back across the bridge we decide to check out the Presidio, which is huge. We find the Visitor's Center and discover the California Watercolor Society, a very prestigious group, is having their annual show here for the first time too. We enjoy the show and vote for our favorite works.
On our way to find the finish line for the marathon so that the guys can plot their trip there by car tomorrow, we stop for Lewis to put his toes into the mighty Pacific, in view of the Golden Gate no less.
We debate whether to go on to Half Moon Bay today to recover my left behind battery charger for the camera or tomorrow as planned. We call Linda but she is not home and so head back into the city for an early dinner and a movie.
Back at the apartment I try to find reference to a neat place with home cooking I had read in one of our pamphlets today. I cannot find it and google what I do know instead which is the street and that the cooking is very southern. FarmerBrowns comes up and has great reviews. It is on Mason Street which is not too far way and also near the movie theater.
We walk to Mason and find the restaurant. This part of town is getting a bit shady and the restaurant looks closed. Reviews have said not to be deterred. Donny tries the door, it is open. We enter another world. A world with sweet tea, Smithfield ham biscuits, corn bread, gumbo...the delicious food list is endless and the decor very swank. The table water is cucumber flavored. And the prices are reasonable. We eat well and have just enough time to get to the movie. Lewis wants us to see Across the Universe. We sprint for the theater knowing only the address. We go too far and turn around. All we see where the theater should be is a city shopping complex. We go in and locate the theater on the legend. It's on floor five. We dash up the escalators. We are in Nordstroms and see nothing else. We go back down and reread the legend. Nordstroms level 2, complex level 5. We go back up. We see nothing. We ask. Go back down and to the Bloomingdales side and take the elevator we are told. By now we have totally missed the start of the movie but just want to see the place. We follow our instructions and finally find the complex. We do rather feel that we have been in a twilight zone.
I am willing to go back to the later show but the guys think I should rest and they are surely right.
After reading our fortunes for the day we head to the Golden Gate Bridge and Sausalito. Lewis does the driving and I am navigating. On our way to the bridge we see Lombard Street coming up and decide to take a turn down the twisty street. Donny is ready to take away our driving privileges but it's not really that scary. There are steeper streets in the city.
Back across the bridge we decide to check out the Presidio, which is huge. We find the Visitor's Center and discover the California Watercolor Society, a very prestigious group, is having their annual show here for the first time too. We enjoy the show and vote for our favorite works.
On our way to find the finish line for the marathon so that the guys can plot their trip there by car tomorrow, we stop for Lewis to put his toes into the mighty Pacific, in view of the Golden Gate no less.
We debate whether to go on to Half Moon Bay today to recover my left behind battery charger for the camera or tomorrow as planned. We call Linda but she is not home and so head back into the city for an early dinner and a movie.
Back at the apartment I try to find reference to a neat place with home cooking I had read in one of our pamphlets today. I cannot find it and google what I do know instead which is the street and that the cooking is very southern. FarmerBrowns comes up and has great reviews. It is on Mason Street which is not too far way and also near the movie theater.
We walk to Mason and find the restaurant. This part of town is getting a bit shady and the restaurant looks closed. Reviews have said not to be deterred. Donny tries the door, it is open. We enter another world. A world with sweet tea, Smithfield ham biscuits, corn bread, gumbo...the delicious food list is endless and the decor very swank. The table water is cucumber flavored. And the prices are reasonable. We eat well and have just enough time to get to the movie. Lewis wants us to see Across the Universe. We sprint for the theater knowing only the address. We go too far and turn around. All we see where the theater should be is a city shopping complex. We go in and locate the theater on the legend. It's on floor five. We dash up the escalators. We are in Nordstroms and see nothing else. We go back down and reread the legend. Nordstroms level 2, complex level 5. We go back up. We see nothing. We ask. Go back down and to the Bloomingdales side and take the elevator we are told. By now we have totally missed the start of the movie but just want to see the place. We follow our instructions and finally find the complex. We do rather feel that we have been in a twilight zone.
I am willing to go back to the later show but the guys think I should rest and they are surely right.
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