1) the only day when you really want to be somewhere at a certain time, the sun doesn't wake you up. (someone remembered to close the drapes the night before and it was raining).
2) In Chinatown - when they say the tour leaves at 10 am - it leaves at exactly 10 am. (We arrived at 10:03 and they had already departed!)
3) They day you pick to walk through the museum of Modern art is the one day of the week they are closed! (Wednesday - really?)
4) You go to take a picture of something really clever only to discover you left the memory card in the computer when you were downloading yesterday's pictures.
5) you try to take a short cut through Ghiradelli Square and end up walking up a very steep hill twice! (ok - we needed the exercise).
6) you find this really neat thing called a wave organ - designed to hear the ocean through pipes. Really neat looking but, you get there at 3:00 and you can't hear anything. You then see a sign that says - the organ is at its best at full tide (hours away) and during a full moon.
You'd think what a lousy day - right? Nope! With every Murphy lemon we managed to find or make some lemonade!
The numbers below refer to the numbers above:
1) We were still in the condo to talk to both Nana and Joe
2)Since we were in Chinatown anyway we decided to explore a little on our own and discovered a delicious restaurant called "Chinatown Restaurant" (who would think it) and a music store where Matt had a ton of fun and bought himself something special. We also found out later that Wednesday's tour was for 65 grade school kids - so we wouldn't have wanted to tag along.
3)We found a pretty cool park called Yerba Buena Gardens. Peaceful and pretty. And walking through there we found Beard Papa's Sweets. (cream puffs - yum - better find some more hills to burn off those calories).
4) As we were starting the climb back to the condo (we could have taken a bus but decided not) we came upon a Walgreens that had memory cards on sale ($9.99 for 2Gb)!! And now we could catch the F train!
5) Because of this "short cut" maybe I burned off some of those cream puff calories. :-)
6) The views around the bay were pretty spectacular. And it was very peaceful out there. We climbed down some rocks onto a little beach and just watched the sail boats and ocean liners work their way in and out of the bay. So even though we could only hear the wind through the pipes. . . we had a wonderful walk out and back. It was all very romantic. (Just so you know. . . I can hear you gaggin all the way out here, Isaac!)
We ended our day with a bus ride back to Sutter street. As we climbed the street to our condo - Matt happened to notice a store that had Loads - and I do mean loads of Tin Tin everything. Books, mugs, original prints. He was in Tin Tin overload heaven. And we found out that they are releasing a Tin Tin movie hopefully in December here in the States. I love watching the guy when he gets excited like that!!! Happy hour pizza and really good beer at Piraats and then we called it a day.
Tomorrow we are going to try to do that Chinatown walking tour and the Exploratorium. But we will just have to see what the day has to offer.
So when life seems like a Murphy's law movie - look for the lemonade!
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