San Francisco - July 2017

Hiking Bernal Heights Park

As another excuse to escape the AZ heat, we went to San Fran to visit Rak, Simran and Ria for the weekend.  Shawna was in Denver for work so she flew in from there to Oakland on Wednesday evening, having dinner with Eric (her old boss from Cigna who now is working at Kaiser) before heading into the city to Rak and Sim's house.  Once she arrived, she chatted a bit with Simran before going to bed.

Ocean Beach

On Thursday, Shawna worked from their house while Simran taught one of her cooking classes.  That evening, Simran, Shawna and Ria had dinner at Red Hill Station, a cute restaurant with good seafood dishes.  After dinner, Shawna treated Ria to ice cream at Garden Creamery where they shared mango sticky rice and ube ice cream - odd flavors but quite yummy.  We returned to the house and Keith arrived in time to have a few glasses of wine before bed.  Keith had flown into Sacramento for work and drove up to San Fran.

View of San Fran

On Friday, we both worked from the house and Simran had another day of her cooking class.  Rak arrived that afternoon after being away for work that week.  That evening, we had cheese and crackers for an appetizer and then Indian food made by Simran's mother - it was delish!  We were all quite tired so went to bed early.

Yummy Noodles

On Saturday, Keith, Simran, Shawna and Ria went over Devil's Tooth Bakery for breakfast sandwiches and then we walked along Ocean Beach - it was foggy but still pretty.  After this, we picked up Rakesh and went to a market to pick up goods for the weekend.  Needing some more walking time, we headed over to Bernal Heights Park to walk around the hill and to see views of the city.  We then had lunch at a noodle shop - Keith had the duck and Shawna had shrimp.  Of course, we had to stop for ice cream at Ice Cream Bar, this time having the caramel honey ice cream.  In the afternoon, we napped and then had happy hour at the house before heading over to Marwah's for a dinner party - Mexican themed!  Shawna made sangria and tres leches cake (which was super moist) and Rakesh made a chilled tomato soup (which was surprisingly good).  For dinner we had mole enchiladas, corn and salad.  It was great to see Marwah and to meet his new girlfriend.

Dinner at Marwah's House

On Sunday, we had an early brunch of dim sum at Koi Palace - we were definitely in the minority!  We ate too much so we then went for a hike at the Dish near Stamford.  It was nice views but it was a very hot day.  After cleaning up back at the house, we napped and then had appetizers before Shawna had to go to the airport to fly back home.  Keith stayed the night as he had to go to Santa Rosa the next day for work and then flew to Vegas before returning home.