Yesterday Allison and I were super tourists, we did everything tourist, with a few additions. Although, I don't think we typically enjoy the tourist traps, yesterday was an exception.
We woke up and ate our dessert from the previous night dinner, packed our bags, and started walking. We walked about 2 miles to Golden Gate park it's 3 miles long and leads to the ocean.
We walked down haight street to get there, which was a lot of hippies and odd balls, but great people watching. The street was lined with head shops and smelled of incense. Once we reached the park, there were groups of people sitting around enjoying the day and some weed. A little surreal to see it so open and accepted. It didn't seem like problem to me, but I'll skip the politics. We walked on through the most beautiful plants and trees I've ever seen. Oh I didn't tell you where we were heading inside the park. We were on our way to The conservatory of flowers, they were having a exhibit on carnivorous plants. What a great place, it was like walking into a rainforest, skip the bugs and snakes. Really beautiful....
After that we decided to make our way to the Golden Gate bridge and grab some lunch at the Burma superstar, We had never had Burmese food, and were looking forward to a new food experience. We ate Rainbow salad, which was 4 types of noodles, and a whole bunch of ingredients, chilies, peanuts, cilantro, carrots, tamarind sauce, and more, it's been featured on the food network. Really a great dish! We also had pork belly over mustard greens.. Wow! one of the best meals of our lives.
We had to go check out the Golden Gate bridge, and were both glad we did, the setting was really great, and we got to take some good pictures. The two other tourist things we did were, Ghiradelli square and fisherman's wharf, those were both really bad tourist traps and didn't have anything to offer us. We went to wattle creek wine tasting in the square and it was putrid and over priced a bad first tasting experience here. Luckily we've had some great ones since then, but you will have to wait.
Next we wanted to go to the Rogue brewpub and have some of there beers, on the way we stopped for sushi, best sushi I've ever had, hands down. we had a spicy tuna roll, halibut, snow crab, and yellow tail belly sashimi. We arrived at The Rogue bar and had a taster, Shakespeare stout from the nitrous tap, hazelnut brown, Mocha porter, and a ipa/regular pale ale hybrid they call triple jump ale. Allison had a bloodymary, made with bacon infused vodka, the bottle was filled with bacon, it was actually amazing!
After Rogue we found a great wine bar called Dell'uva, we really loved it there, the owner was a really great guy with lots of wine knowledge and a passion for everything wine and sharing what he knows, without being snobby or pretentious, great place, the rest of the night is a blur, Allison will have to tell the rest : )..
I've uploaded the pictures from our first day of Sonoma, and will write about it at my next convenience. We're off to do some tasting in heldsberg today and Lady and the fig restaurant tonight. We miss you all and hope you all had a great mother's day.
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