Monthly Archives: November 2013

Relax! Just Do

And the Fun continues…after fueling up with my double espresso Starbuck’s we head over to the Pier to check out the America’s Cup.

‘Make yourself at home!’ – My kids have no problem getting comfortable in these giant bean bags set all over the lawn for viewing the races.

When it was time to leave we only had to look under 7 of them to find all of our missing shoes!

Living the Good Life!

Lawn Ping Pong

Last stop – ice cream!  We head into the Ferry Building filled with several little shops and a decide on a little gelato shop called ‘Ciao Bella’.  I am very familiar with this gelato, they sell it in the Grocery stores near us and it is very good, and I eat too much of it.  The line was pretty long which gave me a long time to over analyze the pricing.  1 Scoop in a cup was about $4.00 (it was pretty small but keep in mind  I am comparing to the monsterous scoops and flavors we have indulged in this trip thus far) –  2 Scoops was only about 60 cents more and 3 Scoops was less than a $1.00 more than 1 scoop.  If you got a cone it was $1 more.  I announce to my boys, “2 choices boys, 1 scoop in a cone or 3 scoops in a cup.” Well Duh! I didn’t raise morons, of course they all went for the 3 scoops but my little announcement made me several enemies in line who just got done telling their kids only 1 scoop.  The staff was…interesting…with their rock music blasting out of their portable stereo system behind the counter they had trouble hearing & I had to repeat my order several times.  The server got the order wrong, 3 times, which lead to him finally apologizing saying “I’m sorry, it’s hard to hear with our music on so loud.”  When I suggested turning it down he sort of laughed and said, “It would be impossible working here without it.”  Ok, I thought, until he continued his sentence adding, “and (making a smoking pot jester with his hand).”  I look at my boys and think, “Lovely, they might be eating Weed flavored Gelato.”

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Ciao Bella!

Now we just need to figure out how to get this on the train…

What better time to decide to leave than rush hour.  The train is completely packed.  At some point we manage to get seats and at some short time later my sons get up to offer their seats to the ladies…I guess I am doing something right.