The last full day of

The last full day of our holiday in San Francisco started off with breakfast across the street from the hotel. Then it was another trip to General Bead as yesterday I’d forgotten to pick up some chain for making charm bracelets. They had some interesting stuff including coloured chain so I tried some purple and pink as well as silver.

From there we walked down to Union square and caught a 38 bus to Japan Town. I went to the bookstore to check out the Japanese knitting books. Thanks to Mariko for incredibly detailed directions following a quick “help where’s the bookstore” email I’d sent yesterday evening while we were having dinner. After searching through the books I decided on an interesting one which features colourwork and some crochet.

Our next stop was for an ice cream at Perry’s Place, a cafe with a jazz theme and who knows how many differerent types of ice cream

North Beach has always had a special place in my heart because I associate it so much with Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City books. So we couldn’t really visit the city without going there. While we were there we went to Z.Cioccolato and I bought my very first package of Marshmallow Peeps! I have to thank Mariko for this before I’d never heard of Peeps until she blogged about them. It was difficult to choose between the Ghosts and the Spooky Cats but the cats came home with me. I’m not going to open them until we get home.

This is our seventh trip to San Francisco. Last year we stayed at a hotel in China Town. We passed it when we walked down Grant St to get a lucky cat ornament for one of Andy’s coworkers. It was really interesting staying in that area last year.

So now we’re back at our hotel again. Tomorrow we’re leaving early to get our plane and will be back in the UK on Saturday. We’re also back in work on Monday which I’m trying not to think about too much…