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dracosphynx.livejournal.com dragged me up to the San Francisco Japantown for their 50th Cherry Blossom Festival. Whee! It was fun, though at this point we both know pretty much what to expect.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif){kind=small}
dracosphynx had the yen to go see the Emperors' Treasures exhibit up in the San Francisco Asian Art Museum, on the last weekend of the exhibit, so we headed up there. Yay, out into the Big Bloo Room!kagetsume was out in the area and by happy chance, there was a Cherry Blossom festival going on in Japantown, SF, on that weekend. He was quite interested so he willingly drove me up there on that Saturday. Good for me, since I hate driving past my 'leash range', especially up in San Francisco.dracosphynx shanghai'd me once again.dracosphynx would have wanted me to go... So I struggled to get myself out the door and onto the shuttle from the Mountain View campus.dracosphynx had a yen to hit up the San Francisco Zoo, so I tagged along, with the customary bribe of a donut for getting up and being ready to roll that early. ;) It's been a while so I'm going to be fuzzy about the animals we saw.chipotle recently had a birthday, so in honor of the occasion, he wanted to eat at Parallel 37. With dracosphynx driving, we headed up via BART and navigated the streets of San Francisco to the Ritz-Carlton, with a minor 'whoops' due to there being two overlapping roads-- there's a road named Stockton which runs through a tunnel, but the actual restaurant was on the road above it, which is *also* named Stockton. Thanks, San Francisco!chipotle and dracosphynx; I eschewed since I'm not a drinker; I'm told I missed a great deal that way since the flavor of the wines and the courses interact. I pled for 'non-scary seafood', and they were very accommodating on the subject. Seems the way a tasting menu works is the chefs cook what they want, but they can adapt the selection if people have different preferences, i.e. non-gluten, non-dairy, etc.dracosphynx has a bag of 25-year-old vintage Pu-erh tea held for him by the proprietors.dracosphynx vowed to venture to SF this week for the skulls exhibit, from which he wanted a better understanding of how horns attach to skulls. For his artwork, that is, he is not planning severe reconstructive surgery. That I know of.dracosphynx and I headed up to San Francisco once again for the Cherry Blossom Festival. We went last year, so this year we did things a bit differently.sythyry was out in San Francisco with family, so dracosphynx and I headed up there to hobnob a bit and have food! It was at a Mexican restaurant called Sabrosa's. I sketched a quick pic of the family's avatars while we waited for food, with tortilla chips served with a trio of salsas and vegetables con mole as appetizers.boingdragon and dracosphynx that we make a trip up to San Francisco and see the Chinese Cultural Center; I also wanted to pay a visit to Mow Lee Shing Kee which I had been informed had the best Chinese sausages. This coincided nicely with Dracosphynx's desire to get some tea at the Red Blossom tea shop, and Boingdragon agreed to head down as well, to get in some visiting time while he was out this-a-way.kagetsume was out here so we met up and headed down to San Francisco last Saturday! We hit up Gourmet Walks's 11 AM chocolate tour.dracosphynx's journal, but I took a few pictures, so...dracosphynx had suggested a while back that we head up to see Shen Yun, "the world's premier Chinese classical music and dance performance". It seemed like a good idea at the time: it would get me out of the house and presumably into an environment with more Chinese people (and maybe even cute Chinese grrls) around. And the show would probably be artistically inspiring!
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