San Francisco Weekend

It is Sunday night and I am full of Vietnamese food. We took the girls for Pho and they loved it. It is a little family place with all the utensils you might ever need on the table already so the girls keep themselves occupied with chopsticks and Asian soup spoons and even forks for the full one minute 43 seconds it takes for our food to arrive. I always order the lemongrass chicken vermicelli noodle salad. It is all my favorite textures of soft and crispy and cool in one bowl. I already want to go back there for more tomorrow. After dinner we went for ice cream at Toy Boat Dessert Cafe (you have to say the full name every time). I shouldn't have gotten a hot cocoa but I ordered the smallest one and I am still very full from it.

Yesterday we went to the San Francisco Farmer's Market at the Ferry Building. We used to go every week, but in the summer and fall it is way too crowded so we took a break for a while. Yesterday it was sprinkling and I always like to go to the market in bad weather to support the farmers that need to sell their goods rain or shine. We got our usual breakfast there- Chilaquiles with farm fresh eggs and avocado. The girls just get the eggs and avocado and a blueberry muffin and cinnamon bun. We sit on our picnic blanket and eat our breakfast while watching passers by crane their necks to look at us as if we are in a zoo enclosure. It is still amazing how much attention identical twins attract. Every San Franciscan who goes to the market has probably seen me stuffing a sauce laden tortilla chip in my mouth at some point. Oh Well.

The girls love the market and are learning about all sorts of fruits and veggies. Yesterday they asked if we could get more romanesco, a vegetable I first saw at a market in Normandy when I was 28 years old. We also got kiwis and Pomelos and grapefruit after many samples. Yum.

On the way to the market we went down the crooked part of Lombard Street and through North Beach where Coit Tower was in view. On the way back we went through China town where they were setting up for Chinese New Year celebrations and drove through the Broadway Tunnel. These are all sights in the San Francisco book that the girls love to read. We love living in San Francisco.