Curious Notions

This blog entry is first of a series. Here are the other entries:

- Day 2 in San Fran
- I stalked a stalker and videotaped him.
- San Francisco Fire Engine Tour
- The Last of our San Fran Trip

Alan and I set the tone for our trip as we were being shuttled from airport parking to the terminals. When the shuttle driver asked us what airline we’re flying, I promptly answered, “Southwest.”

“No, we’re definitely not Southwest.”

So I checked my email from his phone and we WERE Southwest only, it was too late and shuttle driver already dropped us off. Not a big deal since it wasn’t that far of a walk but that really was the tone of our trip. Sometimes heading off to a restaurant we yelped only to realize we never got the NAME of the restaurant down and I grabbed the wrong address.

The first day we got in, Alan had to recover from an all-nighter he pulled so I did some exploring on my own for a couple of hours before meeting him up for dinner.

I found H&M. Always a mandatory stop for me when I’m in a city lucky enough to have H&M. On my walk back from H&M our hotel. I found a peculiar trio.

Have you seen an odder trio?

I managed to read a map (a feat for me, personally) and found the famed and oldest Chinatown.

I love Chinatowns.

I stopped by Sweetheart Cafe mainly to just get a green tea bubble tea but I also got some fried fish balls to snack on.

I met Alan in Fisherman’s Wharf for dinner. We split the best crab of our lives at the Crab House. Alan was reading the directory searching for great accolades. He was won over by “world famous crabs” located at C2 on the map. We wandered around and realized we never got the name of the restaurant so Alan walks to a restaurant and asked the doorman, “Do you know where the world famous crabs are?”

“We have crabs… Dungeness crabs?”

“Are they world famous?”

“No. What’s the name of the restaurant?”

“We don’t know. Are you C2?”

“We’re A2.”

“Oh. Well, thank you!”

“But you haven’t seen our menu!”

Haha. We finally found C2 aka Crab House. It was DELICIOUS. I don’t know if I can have crab again anytime soon. (Maybe I lie a little because I tried a new restaurant today in Austin and had the crab cakes). Seriously, never had such fleshy and tasty crab in my life before. Afterwards, we split a banana and nutella crepe (beats my local Flip Happy Crepes, sadly) and a dessert wine flight. Pictures follow!

At California Wines enjoying some wine dessert

The last one was so fragrant. We bought a bottle and sipped on it at the hotel room throughout the trip.

We went home and had some wine. Then went to our first of two trips to In N’ Out. We love In N’ Out. What a great midnight meal. Drooooool.