Reunion with my Dad in San Fran! (and the return to the soup-in-bread-bowl)

After an up and down week, full of fun, frustration and cooking, I took a shuttle bus after class into San Francisco to meet up with my Dad, who's flown in from Australia to spend almost a week with me!

To celebrate, we headed to our favourite place, Fisherman's Wharf, except this time, by tram ..



I didn't realise this, but the trams actually take up the SAME area as the cars on the road - lading to some very frustrated cars stuck behind slow trams going up hills, with no hope of overtaking ...



At the Wharf I paid homage to my friends, the crabs ready to be soup-ed ...



... it was absolutely alive with food, and music ...



... and my personal favourite, street performers - who perform card and sleight-of-hand tricks to captivated audiences, then ask for a tip at the end (usually they get $50-100 US+!). AND they get the benefit of being able to recycle the same joke 1000s of times to different audiences ... this guy was really polished, really funny, and I'm sure I saw him do this last time I was here in 2003 ...



Tomorrow: NEW YORK.

Blessings
john