Hooray for Days Off!

Hi All!

Today was good, mostly because I didn't have school (haha), but also because I saw and did some marvelous things!

I slept till ten and then Josh and I went to Cafe Divine for breakfast (Susan and Caspian were at ballet and then a Chinese lesson.) We came home for a bit and then all four of us went down to Fisherman's Wharf to the Musee Mechanique, a collection of truly bizarre and slightly creepy mechanical carnival attractions and games. All of the games have been fixed up and still operate for about 25 cents. I watched a flip-book movie of Marilyn Monroe, which was cute, but there were a lot of creepy marionette dancers that I stayed far, far away from. If you've ever been frightened by a circus horror movie, I don't recommend that you visit. If Wurlitzer music and "Laffing Sal" give you nightmares, stay home. For everyone else, it's pretty neat...

but I digress...

From there we went to the Jeremiah O'Brien, a huge ship from World War II. They allow tours of the ship, and this weekend in particular they were allowing tours of the "triple expansion double acting steam engine" (aka: boiler room). Interestingly, this was the boiler room/steam engine that they used in the filming of "Titanic." It was sooooo hot down there, I loved it. If I were to work on a ship I would totally shovel coal into the boilers. Sweet. Maybe that will be my next career.

The Jeremiah O'Brien

The life boat... I just thought it was a cool picture :P

After the boat we took the bus to Chestnut Street to a fabulous Mexican restaurant called "Mamacita." OMG, it was so delicious. It almost killed me to sit still with the fabulous Latin salsa music in the background, though. I really want to go dancing! The food was amazing. I highly recommend it.

Then we went to Palace of Fine Arts. It is SO.FREAKING.BEAUTIFUL. I want to live there and be a Grecian princess... I'm entirely serious. It was amazing. I would happily shell out a few thousand bucks to get married there, it was that impressive (now I just need the man... haha!) Anyway, here are a few pictures:

The "Theatre" portion of the Palace

(me and Caspian... this kid is getting enormous! His mama asked him "what kind of columns are these?" and he shouted "CORINTHIAN!".... smart, too!)

I just liked this dramatic lighting on Caspian... he's very statue-esque!

Swans at the Palace... ethereal, and very much belong in my Grecian Palace.

Just to demonstrate how big this place is, here is Caspian standing in front of a pillar in the Theatre... It's freakin' big.

To conclude... I would like to move in tomorrow :)

And NOW? It's definitely bed time.

Love,

Gillian