Colleen and Peggy

Colleen and Peggy visited!  I had not seen anyone from home since July so I was ready for this visit.  They came on October 11 and stayed until the 15th.  I'm afraid we suggested that they stay in Fisherman's Wharf but they wanted a Marriott and that was the closest one to us.  I don't think they minded all the tourists though.  At least they didn't mention it to us if they did.

We did a whirlwind during their visit!  I'm writing this some time later so the timeline might be a little off.  But regardless, this is what we did while they were here.  Their first day we ate lunch down by the wharf then drove them around our area in the Marina/Cow Hollow.  Saw Billionaire's row, Lombard Street, Chestnut Street, we drove them up and down some pretty steep hills and showed them the one we walked up.  We had a coffee then took them back to our apartment then down the street to the Palace of Fine Arts.  Dinner at Meze's and a night cap (or two) before calling it a night.  Friday was Alcatraz day.

Don and I

Alcatraz Cell

Not so legal photo of us

The return trip

It was a fun morning.

Then we met up with Colleen's old college roommate, Pam.  We all hopped on a cable car (waited an hour for it) up to China Town.  Peggy bought some things for her granddaughters and we had a great time looking at all the China Town tourist stuff.  

Stopped in a restaurant for dim sum and on to Stockton Street where the local residents do their shopping.

Pam left us then and we got ready for dinner at Parma.  Good Italian food but I'm thinking I like e Angelo better.  They're real Italians there so that makes it a little more authentic, for me.  Anyway, more nightcaps.  We found Bin 38 with a patio and a fire pit.  Reminds me of home.

Saturday we met Pam in Little Italy for some good pastries. We walked around a bit until I tripped on a curb and broke my wonderful $2 flip flops.  Don was a hero and went down to Walgreen's in China Town for another pair for me.  He got a medium but when I put them on, they didn't cover my heel.  I guess Chinese women have smaller feet than I do.  But I made do for the rest of our tour.  We took a bus up to Coit Tower:

The view from Coit Tower of Fillmore Street

San Francisco from the top of the Coit Tower

Peggy, Pam, Colleen, me and Don

Then off to Zeke's to watch the Georgia game:

San Francisco Gamecock Club

We won!!!  That was a great game.

Then to the tapas place off Union Street for dinner.  Peggy was the only one who got a good dinner.  That was just about the only meal I've eaten here that was not great.

Sunday we did the Muir Woods thing.  Don, Colleen and I walked the regular track while Peggy took off and hiked one of the trails.

Beautiful.  We got a little worried about Peggy as she went off by herself.  The trail was supposed to be 2 hours but if she had taken a detour, it would be 4 hours long.  But she came back in the 2 hours.

After that we stopped and got some great pictures of the Golden Gate Bridge:

They wanted to stay in the Fisherman's Wharf area that night and do the tourist stuff.  So we hung around Pier 39 and had dinner and drinks there:

We had our second not so great meal there.  Oh well, the company more than made up for it.

Monday was the day they had to leave.  They went back to FW for some sourdough bread and some almond pastries to take home with them (Colleen graciously got some for us) then off to the airport.  

We had a great time and I hope they did as well.

Next visitors - Michael and Katie!

(Happy Birthday, Maggie!)