CALIFORNIA EPISODE DEUX!!!!

Okay, sorry it took so long to put part two of our trip to California in September on the blog! I was being a brat and waiting for 10 comments to post, and TA-DA!!! That happened today! Everyone can thank my fantastic sister-in-law Andrea for posting lucky number ten!

So, the second part of our trip was into the big city, SAN FRANCISCO!!! We stayed in a pretty cool hotel, The Serrano. It was a really great location and the price was really nice! The location was super sweet. We could walk to anything and hop on a bus or get the trolley if we needed to go farther. On the first day, we were just walking around and wanted to hit Puma to pick up some new shoes. When we got to the store, there was a line out the door and the jams were bumpin! We found out the Estelle (a hip-hop singer from London) was doing a live signing in the store. So, we went about purchasing our shoes and then as we were heading out, I was able to be the last person to meet her! She signed my wristband, which was pretty cool! Ever since we've been home I have been listening to her album, which is quite good! Then we hitched a ride on the trolley and headed towards Columbus Street. From their we walked up this GINORMOUSLY steep hill to Coit Tower. It was a hard walk, but the views from the tower were spectacular!

The BEST part of day one in the city was dinner! We went to Frescati's, the #1 ranked restaurant in the city. It was DELICIOUS!! We started with a corn risotto appetizer and I was almost ready to end it there, it was so good! For our entrees, Donovan ordered a fillet wrapped in bacon and I got the pork chop. I don't know exactly what the side dishes were, but the pork chop melted in my mouth and everything just melded together in such a great way! Probably one of the best meals of my life. We ended with the chocolate bread pudding, which was also really great! What was funny is that everything looked so great on the menu, so our waiter basically ordered everything for us! He did awesome. We did get a little flack for not being drinkers, because the whole concept of the restaurant is the wine pairings. I did drink some tasty water in nice wine glasses though!

Most of this posting is going to be about food! The next morning, we waited in a line for 45 minutes to eat breakfast at Dottie's True Blue Cafe. It was right around the corner from our hotel, and world famous for its breakfast! It was so great, we went back again during our trip and waited another hour in line to have great breakfast again! It is really small and the daily specials are amazing! I ordered black bean cakes with eggs and the best potatoes I've ever eaten! And I'm from Idaho!

The rest of the second day we walked around A LOT! We walked around Presidio, Haight-Ashbury, and some area with a lot of Asian markets (surprisingly, not Chinatown though)! We capped off the night meeting Gabe and Aaron at one of our sentimental restaurants, Cafe Sport. We love the atmosphere there! And then we headed to a comedy show at The Punch Line. It was a fun night!

The whole trip was a blast! We couldn't have had a better time! We tried to pack in a lot of activities and we were very successful at doing so. We also did a lot of things that we had never done before, making it a more active trip!

If anyone wants to go on trips with us, we are totally game! And we are up for almost anything. Hope all of you guys are doing well!