San Francisco - China Town

Ok so I did not get a chance yet to post about our trip to San Francisco, DH was there for school and I had some flier miles and joined him for the weekend, which also happened to be the same weekend as the Chinese New Year Parade in Chinatown SanFran.

Of course as it was not cold and snowy enough here this had to be the weekend of lots of rain and wind chills in San Francisco…. Go figure……lol…. In turn this limited us as to what we where able to do.
Due to the winds no ferries went to Alcatraz and who wants to walk the Golden Gate Bridge with 40mph + /hour winds. … Not I :-) We did get on the Cable Car for a ride up the hill and back down on the other side then walked back to China Town lol…..

To make a long story short we ended up spending most of Saturday in China Town, which was no kidding almost like being back in China. …. It was a lot of fun, we scrimmaged thru tons of the stores, mostly Asian people around us and most did not understand us if we asked questions as they did not speak any English unless younger ones where around, even more people in town for the celebration later that day and on top of it rain lots of rain…… We stopped at a tea store sat down for tea tasting, went to a bakery and had some very yummmyyyyy pastries……. Ate Dim Sum …… it was soo much fun…..lol… ok call me crazy but I loved every minute of it.

Later we watched most of the Parade, which was noted to be one of the top 10 international parades outside of Asia, however, the rain turned it into a rather chilly and wet event…. We where soaked by the time the parade was almost over 2 hours later that evening… the costumes where pretty neat the kids seemed to have lots of fun… there are a large number of Immersion Schools in San Francisco and all oft them had their little dragon costumes and floats.

Unfortunately a lot of our pictures due to the weather did not turn out … very disappointing but an experience nevertheless.

March 2008

Birthday Party