We went to Mass today at the Mission Dolores, at the Church of St. Francis. It was a beautiful church, and the original mission church beside it was lovely, too. Apparently it's the oldest building in San Francisco.
We took Dad for fancy coffee and treats at Four Barrels coffee, just near the church in the mission district.
We took Dad for fancy coffee and treats at Four Barrels coffee, just near the church in the mission district.
Not only did we drive down Lombard Street, but we took in a walking tour of Chinatown, with a great guide who share so much historical information about the Chinese immigration to the San Francisco area, and the political scene of the Chinese, immigrants and politics of their mother country. A really interesting guy. While in Chinatown, we found out the fortune cookies were actually invented by a Japanese family, right here in San Francisco. Not that long ago, like in 1962 or something, and we got to tour the teeny factory where they make the cookies. Grandma was folding cookies like nobody's business and putting them into her fortune baker.
There was a street *here we say SHTREET festival in North Beach, San Francisco's "little Italy," and lunched in a cafe overlooking all the shenanigans and various performing artists, some hired, some volunteers from the relatively wild crowd.
An evening tour took us around downtown and across the spectacular Oakland Bay bridge, a double decker bridge.
I get pretty wiggy about the spectacular architecture here, a few shots...
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