Monday, December 14, 2009

San Francisco Birthday


At the California Academy

We visited San Francisco and stayed overnight this past weekend. It was a rainy weekend but the city provided plenty of inside and mud free walking. We stayed in the Haight at the Red Victorian Hotel, and fulfilled my birthday wish to have Ethiopian food for dinner. Fiona thought that it was pretty cool that they don't use any utensils there, just fingers:On Saturday we visited The California Academy of Sciences and peeled off our layers to revel in the warmth of their rainforest bubble. Fiona had a wonderful time. Then on Sunday we woke up and had a lovely breakfast and then went for a walk from "The Haight" to "the Castro" Louise and Fiona on Buena Vista Hill

They happened to be screening 'The Wizard of OZ' at the Castro Theatre, which happens to be Fiona's favorite story at the moment. The audience was about half girls under 10 wearing ruby slippers and half gay couples enjoying Judy Garland at her finest-- or perhaps ogling the Tin Man! Fiona loves singing "somewhere over the rainbow" and liked the movie very much, but didn't like the wicked witch very much because "she was bad." She "loved Dorothy because she was so beautiful...and Auntie Em and Uncle Henry"
Fiona sitting on devon's lap watching the movie and munching on popcorn.

Freise inside the Castro theatre


Poster from our hotel room.

Unfortunately we were too late for the extreme buddhism, but we feel pretty relaxed all in all and ready for the rest of December.
We hope that you are all well and happy too.
Love
Louise

2 comments:

Jane said...

It sounds as though the birthday weekend in SF was wonderful. Happy birthday!

John L said...

Love the Castro Theatre. It reminds me of the old Regent in Rundle Street before it was gutted to make way for a sterile modern one.