11.01.06
Celebrating
Time flies doesn’t it? It’s hard to believe that it’s been six months since Yvonne and I tied the knot. We decided to spend our six month wedding anniversary up in San Francisco where we stayed a night at the Hilton down in the Financial District - right across the street from SF’s Chinatown district.
It was a short trip overall - we drove up Saturday morning and then drove back down Sunday evening but it was definitely fun to get away from Los Angeles and enjoy some quality time together.
North-west we go… more like north..
Our trip began Saturday morning as we left Los Angeles right around 11am. Yeah.. we left a little later than we had planned but the overall trip was fairly quick as we got into San Fran right around 4pm or so. We checked into the Hilton and then set our sites on the local neighborhoods.
Immediately in front of us was San Francisco’s famous Chinatown.
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We took a nice walk in and around the neighborhood and then decided to head back to the hotel to change since it was getting a bit chillier.
We then walked all around North Beach looking for a restaurant called “Michelangelo” (Caffe). We literally walked 15+ blocks before nearly giving up. I remember going to Yvonne and saying “What was the name of that restaurant again? Maybe we should just eat someplace else…” and then we looked up and there it was - right in front of us. Yes.. it was destiny that night for us to eat at Michelangelo’s..
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So how was dinner? Well I think Yvonne and I would both agree that the restaurant was just OK. I suppose I had higher expectations that what was listed on citysearch.com but overall, it was an OK experience. The interesting thing that they do at Michelangelo’s is.. they serve you a bowl of gummy bears at the end of dinner. Nice touch.. except.. is that the same bowl going around from table to table? haha.. sorry.. if that is the case then I’m a bit squimish on that thought.
We ended the night by walking over to the Wharf and then walking back to our hotel. Oh yes.. while walking back we noticed a taxi driver dressed up as Superman.
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Before heading back up to the hotel, we dropped by a night market in Chinatown and took some pics
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Nothing like falling back one hour
What a wonderful feeling it was to have one more hour given back to us on Sunday morning. We woke up a tad bit late nevertheless and then headed over to Chinatown for some dim sum. Boy - finding dim sum wasn’t easy. At one point, I convinced Yvonne to go upstairs to this restaurant thinking that it would be serving dim sum.. then we ran into a nice old Chinese man who said “Nah! You don’t go there for dim sum!”
Of course we didn’t end up listening to his suggestions either but we did end up finding a nice restaurant for some limited dim sum. I can’t seem to recall the name of that restaurant right now though.
After dim sum, we drove down Lombard “Crookedest” Street and Yvonne took some snapshots out of the car.
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Afterwards, we headed over to the wharf and basically shopped and ate. A stop at Ghirardelli’s for some chocolate and then a stop at Boudin’s for some sourdough bread bowls sure hit the stop.
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Oh yes.. we did walk around some of the touristy areas of the Wharf too.
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Finally.. right around 3:30pm, we hit the road again and made our way back to Los Angeles. Too bad the 580 was backed up for nearly an hour otherwise we made good time coming back home.
All in all a good weekend trip to SF and a great way to celebrate our anniversary. Happy Anniversary Yvonne!
