Golden Gate Park, Haight-Ashbury, and Shakespeare in the Park
After Cafe Gratitude, we made our way to the Golden Gate Park. We walked by the De Young museum before heading to the Japanese Tea Garden. We walked around for a little while before splitting a pot of jasmine tea at the cafe.
We finished our tea and made our way over to the Haight-Ashbury . We walked around for a little while before catching a bus over to Shangri-La for lunch. We started with the spring rolls. Shel had the Dried Tofu with Veggie Pork, a local favorite, and for a good reason: it was very tasty. Jason had the Sweet and Sour Spareribs, which tasted much like something you might find at Java Green. We couldn't finish all of our food, but we couldn't take it with us either, as we have neither a refrigerator nor a microwave in the hotel room. Too bad!
We caught a bus up north to the Golden Gate bridge and snapped a bunch of pictures. We then set off to find the free 'Shakespeare in the Park' performance of The Tempest in the Presidio. After a few wrong turns, we eventually found our way to the Parade Grounds at the Main Post. We bought some hot mocha and candy, and helped ourselves to a couple of the free blankets they were offering. It was pretty cold, and the blankets sure did come in handy. During the intermission, Jason went and got another blanket, and bought a sweatshirt for Shel. The performance was excellent. Afterwards, following a little bus hopping, we made it back to the hotel for our last night in San Francisco.
Tomorrow, we head out for Santa Cruz.
posted by Jason @ 12:05 AM
3 Comments:
We have been having a lot of fun! The restaurants are really cool, too. In Cafe Gratitude, all of the items have names like 'I am Sustained' and 'I am Grateful'. When they serve the food, they say 'You are Sustained' and 'You are Grateful'.
They had a really cool board game, too. It's called 'The Abounding River Board Game' (http://www.withthecurrent.com/boardgame.html). We think you'd really enjoy playing it. We were going to buy it at the restaurant, but we didn't want to have to carry it with us on our trip, so we're going to buy it online and have it shipped home. We'll let you know once we get it.
Sounds lovely. Mark your calendar. It's a great new tradition we started while in DC and we'd love to continue it.
We're definitely looking forward to watching the snow fall through our arch window (of course, we hope the watching is through the window, and not the snow...that would be terrible!)
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