the city

When we first moved to Stanford we heard people refer to San Francisco as "the city". 

For some reason that felt like something only the locals could say. Now, after living here for a year and a half, I find myself talking about our next trip to the city...

Living the student life has reminded us of the value of three-day weekends. So when MLK rolled around this year we decided to take advantage of the three-day weekend by spending a day in the city doing some of our favorite things plus some new things.

Saturday morning farmer's market at the Ferry Building - one of our favorite things.

Who knew radishes could be so beautiful? I still don't like eating them, but they sure are photogenic.

The girls agonize over the decisions at the honey stand. Root beer, watermelon, or peach flavored honey sticks? How can a girl choose just one? Good thing they are priced 1 for $1, 2 for $1 or 3 for $1 so they each get three flavors. Makes sense to me?

 It's a toss-up between the citrus stands and the tree-fruit stand - peaches, plums, pluots, asian pears, etc.

I take that back, for me the pluots win every time and for Kylan it's the asian pears.

 A few SF photo-ops

 I love that Kylan appreciates the art history nerd in me and gets just as excited to see an Oldenburg in real life, just one of the many reasons I'm so lucky...

 The Palace of Fine Arts

Located in the Marina district, this park and the "ruins" that were built for the 1893 World Trade's Fair, are a beautiful respite from the busy city. Kylan and I decided that if we were to live in the city this is where we would want to live... until we looked at the home prices on Zillow and couldn't find one under 5million within 5 blocks!

 We learned the hard way that the fun children's museum, the CuriOdyssey, is moving homes from this beautiful location to one of the newly renovated piers on Embarcadero. Bummer.

 The girls were great sports and indulged us in a quick visit to the DeYoung Museum of Fine Art in Golden Gate Park. 

 And we could not have ended the day on a better note.

We followed Yelp's recommendation to El Farolito for the best burrito in the Mission district and it was phenomenal. A $7 burrito that fed the entire family - plus two baskets of chips and salsa and two Mexican sodas and we were ready to call it a day!

*legend has it that the burrito was actually invented in San Francisco's Mission district...