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June 12, 2007
Weekend in Fog City
Chis had to be in San Francisco this week for business, so we decided to go ahead and enjoy a weekend in one of our favourite cities. I went early Friday morning, and arrived in time to make it to Funky Door for a yoga class. Chis arrived shortly before 8 and we met at the W Hotel before heading to Chaya Brasserie for dinner. Chaya has a wonderful view of the Bay Bridge.
Saturday morning, I hoofed it off to Funky Door’s Nob Hill studio for a morning yoga class, and met Chis in Union Square. We dropped a few things back at the hotel, and headed down Market Street to the Ferry Building. We caught the ferry to Tiburon, and had some lunch at Sam’s Café overlooking the little harbour and marina. It reminded us of Snug Cove on Bowen Island in Howe Sound, just west of Vancouver.
Chis was fighting a serious cold, and had been coughing so much that he pulled a muscle in his lower back. We got back to the hotel around 6pm, and he had a bath and fell sound asleep. Awake long enough for a bite of dinner, he fell back asleep and didn’t wake until Sunday morning when I returned with lattes, fresh fruit and pastries. I left him with the Sunday New York Times and hiked it back to Nob Hill for more yoga. After a quick shower at the hotel, we had brunch down at the Ferry Building on the patio at a wonderful place called Market Bar. We walked down to Fisherman’s Wharf, which was really sad to see what had become of such an historic spot. We walked back toward the hotel through Chinatown, stopped for a glass of Viognier in the blazing sunshine at Café de la Presse, and returned to the hotel around 5. We grabbed our bags and hopped in a cab to the Sofitel in San Mateo, much closer to the office.
I woke at 5am Monday, and was out the door at 6 to catch my 8am flight. Chis went to the office. My flight left on time, and we even landed at JFK on time, but we had to wait for ground traffic to clear before we could get to the gate. It was very late by the time I got home in New York.
Chis flies home tonight on the red-eye.
Posted by dave at June 12, 2007 03:55 PM