We spent a lovely evening with Don's San Francisco family. His Uncle Bob and Aunt Delores live here in the city. They have always been very nice and I've always liked them very much. Their daughter lives north of here but not far so we all went to her house for dinner. We couldn't stay long as uncle Bob needed to get home to bed but I'm sure we'll see them again before we leave. But the gift we bought for Delores mistakenly got opened by Don's cousin. Oh well.
We spent a night in Mill Valley last weekend. We left Saturday morning and just drove north. Don had never been to Muir Woods so we went there.
We had a nice dinner in Mill Valley. While it would have been a huge commute for Don, I could see myself spending Sabbatical there. In SF I feel kind of claustrophobic, but Mill Valley is more open. But we've gone for the experience of living in a big city. So here we are.
Speaking of the experience of living in a big city, my goal today is to get on a bus by myself and going somewhere. I think I'll go down to Pier 39 since they have a huge shopping area down there and I still haven't bought any Christmas gifts. I think I can get down there, but I'm a little nervous about getting home. Don thinks I'll be much happier if I can get around by bus instead of just staying in the Marina district. I'm not sure. There are shops and groceries here. I can walk to anything I want. But I'll try it today and we'll see.
We're making our first trip to Sonoma this weekend. There aren't a lot of dog friendly places to stay within our price range, so we're just going to take lots of day trips. There's a limo bus tour here in SF that takes people up to several different wineries. They give you breakfast on the way up. tour 4 wineries, give you a snack on the way back and you can drink your purchases on the way home. Don doesn't want to do that because they don't go to some of the places we want to go to (J, Coppola to name two) so we'll go on our own. Maybe some of our visitors might want to do something like that when they come??? You know who you are.
Oh, I forgot to mention that I had my final visit to an orthopedist. My foot has officially healed! The doctor in San Diego said that while I didn't have to wear the boot anymore, I needed to wear shoes that tied, like sneakers. Well, I brought about 20 pairs of shoes and could only wear my walking shoes. So now I'm free to wear whatever pair of shoes I want. However, it's like 60 degrees everyday and we walk a lot, so some of my shoes are not practical. And when we leave here in December, it'll be too cold to wear the sandals so, I'm out of luck there. But I can wear my boots, so I have that.
Okay, I can't procrastinate any longer. It's 11:30 so I only have around 4 or 5 hours before Don comes home. I need to get down to Pier 39. I can always take a cab home, right? Wish me luck.
Some miscellaneous pics:
And our very messy apartment. I'll post another when I've straightened up a bit.
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