Wednesday, 8 July 2009

Day 6 - fun slides and vegan japanese


City The NZCQ and Melisser The Urban Housewife


Chris and I have been loving the fact that in San Fran everyone walks everywhere. In LA we walked everywhere and people thought we were crazy. Turns out in the USA its a known fact hat nobody walks in LA and we've been told numerous times there was even a song written called "Nobody Walks in LA".

We took another long walk and headed into the Castro district to take in the amazing gay & lesbian culture around there. We found a cute dog store and picked up a hoodie for George the pug with a tattoo heart with Mommy inside. We also found crazy Care Bears street art with a twist and some amazing artwork on the side of the Harvey Milk Civil Rights Academy.




Then we headed to the Seward Street slides which is the most random and amazing little treasure hidden in the suburbs of San Fran. Years ago the 2 concrete slides were built into the side of a hill in a neighbourhood park. You climb up to the top and then hop on a piece of cardboard or sacking and slide down. Its a crazy ride and so fun!




We also checked out Haight Street and Ashbury Streets and all the amazing shops and colourful characters hanging out there.

We also got our nerd on and had photos by the houses made famous in the opening credits of the 80's tv show Full House.

Dinner that night was vegan Japanese at Cha Ya and it blew my mind. Its not often I get to go to dinner and I can have ANYTHING off the menu. It was almost too much with so many choices. Unfortunately we were so busy eating, there were no photos!

We headed home for an awesome dessert of sundaes with Cinnamon Caramel and Peanut Butter Palooka ice cream, complete with butterscotch chips, choc, caramel and hazelnut caramel sauce and brownie and choc chip cookie sprinkles. Yummy overload!!!

3 comments:

apparentlyjessy said...

Looks like you are having a blast! I so want to visit San Fran one day. Love the care bear street art!

Lady Luck™ said...

Those houses are so, so gorgeous. Amazing. Looks like you guys are havin' a ball, lady! xx

Cupcake Goggles said...

San Fran is so beautiful!! Hope you had a great trip in the States!! Did you make it to Los Angeles?