My family and I stopped Golden Gate Park, the largest man-made park in the world. We're not really sure what the "man-made" part entails, but it includes a Japanese tea garden, two museums, a cafe, and an amazing panoramic view of the entire city of San Francisco.
The Japanese tea garden was very pretty, very old, full of history, but most importantly, there was hot tea. It was great for the chilly, but otherwise beautifully sunny day. We have been lucky with weather here because it hasn't been too cold or foggy. Instead, it's always been sunny and clear! That came in handy when we went to the roof of the museum to check out the panoramic city view. We also had breakfast at the base of the museum in the cafe that made amazing mini cakes.... so of course we couldn't resist.
Then we went back to Garrett's favorite spot in San Francisco: Chinatown. My mom found the secret alley where there is a fortune cookie "factory." At least, there was one lady making them, another guy charging .50 cents for pictures and handing out "samples" AKA fortune cookie rejects (they cooked too much to be folded, but were just like regular fortune cookies). There will also be a video of that. Basically, a machine poured a pre-measured amount of dough into a little pancake-maker looking thing which cooked the cookies just enough to where they could be folded before they cooled and the lady would place a fortune inside.
We walked around Chinatown more and stumbled across a really long line. It caught our attention and we ended up waiting about an hour for freshly made egg custard mini pie things... that were REALLY good. It seemed to be a local secret... at least, we were the only non-Asians in line. And apparently we had really good timing, because the bakery had been closed for six months (just because they know they'd be that popular when they opened back up).
Our dinner was happy hour appetizers at an oyster bar but it was definitely filling. We walked it off with shopping! I got to go to H&M for the first time and I really liked it. I didn't find much on this particular trip, but I definitely want to go to the one in Dallas now. We also explored the 2-building 8-story Macys nearby. We didn't buy much, but it was still fun.
Pokewalker steps: about 19,000
This was December 23rd. I've been posting one day after, so it's actually Christmas right now. MERRY CHRISTMAS!!
Also, this happened.
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