It’s already Wednesday and we still have so much to do! The
day started out taking a bus from our hotel up to Washington Square to Mama’s
for breakfast. This place was quaint, comfy and cozy and once we were inside we
felt like we were on a farm at grandma’s eating good home cooking. There were
knick knack shelves all around the room loaded with tchotchkes of everything
you could imagine that should be in a place like this. The windows were dressed
with bright yellow curtains and the tables had floral cloths on them to
complete the whole “I’m eating breakfast at my grandma’s house” look. But first
we had to wait for a very long time to even get into the place. Mom was
determined to wait it out and it didn’t turn out to be that long – only about
40 minutes – and I promise it was worth the wait! Best breakfast I’ve had in a
long time or maybe even my whole life. Dad and I had the Washington Square
Omelet which had which had Italian sausage, peppers, tomato and cheese. Michael
had pancakes which we thought would be a waste of a breakfast but these were
the best pancakes any of us had ever had. Don’t know what the secret was but
they were incredible. Mom decided to try what Mama’s is famous for – the Monte
Cristo. It was a ham, turkey and cheese sandwich soaked in egg and cooked like
French toast and then they had this homemade raspberry jam to put on top of it.
It was a perfect blend of sweet and savory and mom said she would have waited
in line for even longer if she had known how good it would be.
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| Washington Square Omelet |
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| Monte Cristo |
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With
our tummies full it was time to shop! We went back to Fisherman’s Wharf to find
some quality souvenirs. Every time we go on a family vacation we have to buy a
Christmas ornament to give to dad when we decorate the tree. We found a perfect
ornament of a cable car to remind us of that fun night we rode up and down the
hills of San Francisco. Michael also got a cable car to add to his expansive
bus collection at home so he was happy. We found this neat little candy store
that had several yummy treats that were made even better because they dipped
them in chocolate. There were chocolate dipped oreos, chocolate dipped rice
crispy treats, chocolate dipped twinkies and gigantic peanut butter cups. Our
favorite was the chocolate dipped twinkie. The rice crispy treat would have
been good with homemade rice crispy treats because I hate store bought ones. We
ate a bite of each and tossed the rest because that would have been just wrong
to eat all of them.
By now it was almost 4 pm so we headed over to the Ferry
Building to Miette to buy some treats for later. Then we headed back to the
hotel to have lunch since we were starving. Lunch/dinner tasted so good. Mom
ordered the trio of clam chowder – corn chowder, California clam chowder and
New England clam chowder. They were all very good. I decided to keep it simple
and I ordered a chef salad with chicken and it was delicious. I wanted to go to
bed at this point in the day but that wasn’t going to happen quite yet. We got
onto the muni near our hotel and headed to the game. Yep, what would a family
vacation be if we didn’t fit in a game for Michael.
My dad couldn’t figure out the second leg of our trip to
AT&T Park so we ended up walking the last mile or two. Normally I wouldn’t
have cared about this but my fit bit was telling me that I was already well
over my 10,000 steps for the day and now you’re telling me I have to walk
more?? Michael walked the whole way and didn’t complain once. He’ll do anything
to go to a baseball game. My dad really hooked us up with great seats on the
third row behind 3rd base. He’s been doing work in for MLB so they
had the ticket there waiting for us. What a fun game! My mom asked Michael if
he felt like a traitor for wearing a Giants shirt and rooting for a different
team. He told her it was only for one night so it would be okay. How do you go
from being a diehard Mariners fan to a Giant’s fan in one night? I don’t know,
but Michael put on that t-shirt and poof! He’s a Giants fan. The game was a bit
chilly and the Giants got killed but we had a wonderful time. Our trip back to
the hotel was much better and we managed to find the right trains and buses to
take. We finished the day with almost 20,000 steps or between 8 and 9 miles and
our feet felt it! I fell into bed and that’s all she wrote.
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