on "vocation!", which seems like it should be just that!

... i just feel like it should be a 'vocation' to go on vacation always!

- sunrise over the financial district skyline -

we rolled into the City around 5:45

after driving all night from Los Angeles,

and since check in for our room wasn't until 2 pm

- drove out to the Marine Stadium

to start the day with a walk out on the curving pier

into the harbor where i shot this image of the City awakening at 6 am,

and feel it captures the moment exactly!

this location is just across the street from Ghiradelli Square which was the next stop

- to go to Boursins' for croissants and coffee

- a tradition of sorts to start a day in San Francisco as it were.

imagine our surprise to find them gone...

they have recently moved to a much larger facility now at Pier 39

where they have a ginormous building housing the bakery, a bistro, gift shop and cafe all rolled into one big fantasy of a shopping experience,

along with a nice patio with heaters and a fireplace outside

facing the crab shoppes, but alas

- it being Thanksgiving Day afterall - were not slated to open till 10:00 am.

- the harbour at Pier 39 -

so, off to a drive over the bridge and back

- anything to waste time and avoid napping in the car

till check in anyway hehehe!;

and then a leisurely tour of Cow Hollow till we could

go get a proper cup of coffee and a snack.

Cow Hollow walkabout

... best part so far? ( besides the sunrise of course...)

"free parking" anywhere in The City on Thanksgiving Day!

more tomorrow...

dallied the day away instead of writing

'and now have to get dinner on the stove for my girls!