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| Union Square |
For CC's upcoming 50th birthday, I took him to San Francisco to visit some friends and as a mini spring getaway. We left early last Monday morning, arriving in SF around noon and returned early yesterday morning due to our flight being delayed - more on that later. We were met at the airport (SFO) by my old lab-mate, KH, who gave us cards for the transit system, BART, and we took our luggage back to her apartment in Daly City (just south of SF), then went back into the city centre at Powell Street.
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| SF Downtown |
We had lunch at a Japanese Ramen noodle house, Katana-ya, which was very tasty and filling. From there, it was off to the SFMOMA to see Mark Bradford's large, colourful collage-paintings, Rineke Dykstra's powerful photographs, 20th century works etc.
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| SF Fountain |
We then walked through a park and stopped at Beard Papa's Cream Puffs for a sumptuous snack/reward and tea/coffee at Peet's, a local chain. We then window shopped at Westfield San Francisco Centre and I bought a couple of shirts at Desigual on Powell Street. KH then took us through the Tenderloin district, which is a very down and out part of the city, then down to Market Street where TH picked us up and took us to Emmy's Spaghetti Shack on Virginia Avenue for dinner and a chance to warm up and rest our weary feet. It was then back to the apartment to settle in for the night.
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| City Hall |
Nice first day! I love Desigual prints--I've got a scarf and want a pair of shoes now!
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