San Francisco, Day 3 - part 2!

This evening Peter and I headed out to find a Chinese restaurant. It was super cheap so we shared 3 different items. We didn't realize how huge the portions were though! We thought since it was cheaper that it'd be smaller. Wrong! Oh well. As you can see, Peter's loving the spread of food they brought out.

After dinner we decided to visit Grace Cathedral. Unfortunately, it closed at 5 PM. We did walk around the outside to look at it and take some pictures. I really loved this huge doors!

We found a door that was open and thought we got lucky and would be able to see inside! Apparently there was some local meeting so only the basement area was opened. I did luck out though because I was able to use their restrooms before the 30 minute trek back to the hotel.

I also liked seeing these old wooden seats.

The cathedral is beautiful from the outside so I imagine the inside is just as well. We are hoping to stop back another day this week before we head home.

On our walk back to the cable cars, I saw this window balcony that I just loved:

This shield with the F in it was for some hotel, but Peter and I decided it was also for Formica. :)

All in all, another fun day in SF!

San Francisco, Day 3

Here's a recap of what I did this morning...

Breakfast with my hunny:

This was my favorite breakfast joint. I'm not big into the eggs, bacon, etc. but I do love a muffin with hot chocolate in the morning! Peter got some sort of egg, toast, bacon combo which he enjoyed too so we made this a regular place that we visited the next few days for breakfast.

After breakfast I decided to attempt to find a mall that I had googled last night. It was around the block from where we had breakfast so it wasn't too hard to find. The only problem I encountered was that it wasn't open yet when I got there. I had to kill about 20 minutes in a nearby cafe before heading back.

The mall was named Westfield and was very cool inside. There was a place called Bristol Farms that was just a store/market, but I took some pretty cool photos of it.

Here's one area of Bristol Farms:

They had an abundance of beautiful, fresh flowers in their floral shop.

Chocolatier! Yummy!

Gerber Daisies are my favorite :)

This fudge looked sooo yummy. I exhibited some self control and passed since I was going to be eating gelato after lunch.

More beautiful flowers:

The other side was more of a food market and had all kinds of fresh food options.

Tons of cheeses!

More cheeses! They also had a big salad bar that they were just setting up and fresh seafoods and a bakery too. I must've gotten pre-occupied by this point since I didn't take any more pictures haha.

After exploring more of the Westfield shopping center, I headed to Yerba Buena Gardens. I walked all around and explored the area. I even watched them setting up for the WWDC concert that was going to be taking place that week. I saw a cool looking tea lounge that I would've definitely checked out if I hadn't still been full from breakfast.

Here's a shot of people setting up for the WWDC event:

A cool looking church that was across the street from the gardens:

I saw on a bench for a while in the gardens reading my book until some guy sat on the other end. At first I just kept reading my book, but then I noticed that he had taken out a bowl and started smoking pot. Right in the middle of the gardens! It didn't take more than 5 seconds for me to get up and leave!

By this time I was getting hungry so I headed back to Westfield to try the market area of Bristol Farms. Peter was eating lunch at WWDC so I was on my own for lunch. It was sooo super packed! When I was there in the morning it was pretty much dead. I realized that this must be a hot spot for lunchtime! I had a slice of pizza and a salad and ate in the food court while reading more of my book. Then came the best part of lunch...melt!

This place caught my attention when I was there earlier and I made a mental note to come back and try their gelato.

Doesn't this picture just make your mouth water?? I tried their chocolate chip cookie dough gelato and it was delicious!

On the way back to the hotel, I spotted another gathering of the pigeons. So weird!

San Francisco, Day 2 - part 2!

I'm trying to explore the area some more so this afternoon I ventured to Union Square! I took a walk there and read my book for a while and also enjoyed people watching. It was quite the busy place, and has lots of people coming and going all day.

This is one of the steps into Union Square. I really like the huge heart with US behind it. As you can see, it was another beautiful day in San Francisco!

I really loved this florist shop. The flowers were just so beautiful and reminded me of when I used to work at a floral shop. (Although the one I worked out wasn't nearly as cool as this one!)

There are a lot of high end stores around Union Square, including Williams-Sonoma. I've never been in one and certainly wouldn't purchase anything because of their outrageous prices, but it was still fun to look and helped to pass the time. :)

I thought this was cool. They have live demonstrations of using different products and cooking things.

I loved some of the things in this store and though this table was just beautiful.

Lots of wooden utensils!

This another entrance to the square from the side the Williams-Sonoma.

View of the outside of the store from across the street:

I thought that these were very cool looking. I have no idea what they are though???

A view of the busy streets of SF:

When Peter finished up at WWDC for the day, he met up with me and we headed to dinner. We just googled different restaurants and decided on one that sounded good - Zingari. Boy, was it a great place!

Peter with his glass of wine before dinner:

My yummy dinner:

Peter's wild boar dinner (also yummy!):

I even had a glass of white wine with dinner. I didn't know what to get and left it up to our waiter. I can't remember what it was, but it was good!

Us at dinner:

This was my favorite part - dessert! We both had gelato - chocolate for me and vanilla for Peter. They served it with a cookie and strawberries. YUM!

A view of the outside of the restaurant:

On our way out, we heard music and discovered live jazz in the hotel lobby that connects to Zingari. They were just warming up, but we stayed and listened for a few minutes. Maybe we'll go back later in the week!