I liked this mural across the street from the brunch place we went to, called The Kitchen Story (they bring your check over in a book!), so I took a picture of it while we were waiting for a table. We waited at least an hour to seat 4 (myself, Gabby, her girlfriend Cata, and their friend Johana who joined us), and it was very cold, and windy, and it rained on and off during that time. We wound up with an outside table (lest we wait another hour), and they had heaters overhead and flaps on the sides to keep out the wind, but I hardly felt any difference because it was just so cold. While the others ordered bottomless mimosas to keep warm, I kept the hot chocolate coming. The food was very good, though. I had the Franciscan scramble (very good), which is halfway between scrambled eggs and an omelette, and it had sausage, mushroom, avocado, and cheese, and Gabby had deep-fried, ricotta-filled french toast, which I tried and it was also good. Johanna and Cata had sandwiches of some kind that also looked very tasty.
Then we went to the Exploratorium. It's like a science museum, where all the exhibits are interactive and show some kind of science concept. There were a lot of kids there, but we still enjoyed it. It's more of a do-things museum than a take-pictures museum, so I don't have a lot of them. The one below is from a dry-ice-melting table that was very soothing and hypnotic to just watch these little chunks of dry ice fall onto the water table and slowly dissolve while spinning and running into each other. I wish I could have that as my coffee table; it'd be so cool.
I did learn from this museum what those weird ponds were from my flight in. They're salt ponds. They trap ocean water, let the water evaporate, then harvest the salt. The different colors indicate the salinity (red & white = more salty).
There was an observation deck on the top floor of the museum, and this pigeon came to say hi to me while I was taking a picture of the Bay Bridge below, so I took one of him too (or her, as I don't know the difference).
After the museum, we went to a bar and played darts, which Gabby and I both are terrible at, but Cata and Johana both did pretty well. Then we went to get food at a Japanese hot dog place. They take hot dogs and put different toppings on them, like seaweed and Japanese sauces, cold vegetables and warm bacon, and other things you wouldn't necessarily see together and on a hot dog. It was surprisingly very good. Some of the group wanted pizza, so we went to a pizza place too (these were all on the same block), before going to a different bar (the one we went to my first night here) to play pool, which Gabby and I were also bad at but Cata and Johana rocked. They also sold these chips there, which are basically the same as potato chips, but they're crunched up on purpose and you're supposed to just pour them into your mouth like you do with the crumbs at the bottom of a regular chip bag. Of course California would come up with something like this.
Some of Gabby's other friends joined us later for some more pool, and they were also better than me and Gabby at it, and then we all called it a night. We were within walking distance of home, and on the treck up the hill, the doughnut shop on the corner was still open (leave it to San Francisco to have a doughnut shop open all night). We stopped in and got doughnuts, which we then had for breakfast the next morning. They were quite good.
Today we're off to do San Francisco tourist things, like ride the old trolley, visit the Golden Gate bridge again, take pictures of the really tall hills, etc. Cata has to work, so she won't be joining us for a lot of it, but it should still be fun. 'Til next time!
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