leaving SF

This was our last meal in San Francisco, and it was great. Right across the street from the Chancellor where we stayed. That bread and bowl of clam chowder was our lunch on the last day. No place better for clam chowder than SF!

dancing!

I interrupt my SF pictures to post Mayu's dancing from a couple weeks ago. She enjoyed it tremendously, and she's very good!

a lovely cafe in SF

This was a lovely cafe in a mall that we liked so much, we went back at least twice. Or was it 3 times?

SF at night

Beautiful, isn't it? I think about our Nov. trip often. It was great!

our friend, Mr. Sealion

As we took the boat to and fro, we saw these little brown heads in the water. I don't know what attracts so many sealions to SF, but if you're a wet, brown animal lover, here's heaven!

turning the streetcar

It's interesting to watch them turn the streetcar. What's not interesting is that the mayor of SF significantly downsized the streetcar budget so that less are running, and lines get long and Long waiting for a streetcar. Workers even just sit there on streetcars until it's time for another one to go; the budget (according to one of the workers) is so low, they are paying streetcar operators per journey. So, the longer you wait in line for a streetcar, the more the city saves. Of course, while we waited for this one we were serenaded by wonderfully bad Beatles guitar music in the cold, so it does make a delightfully funny memory after the fact!

San Francisco's crazy street

And after the farmer's market, we went to that crazy street with all the curves. We walked down the steep stairs to the bottom. What great houses there are on the way down!