Full House, Golden Gate, and other San Francisco Treats!

I completely dropped the ball and didn't write a blog post this entire long weekend!  Apologies for this delayed blog post, but a lot of exciting things are going on in my life right now.  With that said, here's the post on San Francisco that I meant to write last week.

One thing I have always wanted to do is walk across the Golden Gate Bridge.  That finally became a reality two Saturdays ago.  My mom and I are quick walkers, so we decided to challenge the full length of the bridge both ways.  According to Wikipedia, the bridge is 1.7 miles long, which is reasonable to walk across and back (at least in my books).  We started on the San Francisco side of the bridge, and it took us roughly 40 minutes for the entire trip (with stops for pictures). 

Before walking across the bridge.

View of San Francisco from the bridge.

On the north side of the bridge.  It was very windy!

Our next San Francisco stop was Lombard Street.  My boyfriend and I drove down it once before at night, but we wanted to do it in the day time as well.  

View from the top of Lombard Street.

View going down the street.  It's really narrow and steep.

Our final stop worth writing about was full of nostalgia for me (and certainly a lot of other people).  Do you remember the show Full House?  

 

The show aired between 1987 and 1995, and was on for an hour every day when I was in elementary and junior high school on TBS.  I'm certain I've seen every single episode at least twice.  Anyways, the show was based in San Francisco, and they always showed the front of the house in every episode.  The house actually exists in San Francisco, so we decided to locate it.  It's actually located at 1709 Broderick Street, and can be seen at the end of the video I posted.

I'm in front of the house!

It was a great day of sightseeing.  I'm still trying to figure out if there is anything else I should see in San Francisco before I move, other than Golden Gate Park which is next on my list.  Do you have any ideas?

House of Prime Rib

When my boyfriend and I were in San Diego, we had friends from Canada staying in our apartment.  When we got back, they wanted to thank us by taking us out to the House of Prime Rib.  I never had prime rib before, and we saw this restaurant featured on No Reservations, so we were pretty excited and made reservations for 5:45 PM on Friday night.  I include our reservation time because I went through quite the adventure in order to make it to the restaurant on time.

I had to go to work on Friday because of a meeting at 3:00 PM, and I had to bring my laptop because I had a lot of data entry to catch up on.  The meeting ran for an hour (it is normally shorter, but one girl monopolized the meeting), and I didn't want to bring my laptop to San Francisco (especially if we were walking around at night), so I raced and caught a bus at 4:05 PM, and walked home as fast as I could in ballet flats.  I was smart enough to be dressed for the reservations, so I dropped the laptop off and ran for another bus to take me to the transit station at 4:30 PM.  Unfortunately people took forever getting off of the bus, and once I got to the station I had to run as fast as I could in order to catch the train.  I found my boyfriend who was nice enough to buy me a train ticket, and we ran and caught a train just as the doors were closing.  We got to San Francisco just after 5:00 PM, met our friends, and it took 10 min for us to find a bus stop so we could catch a bus for our restaurant.  Of course when we got on the bus it was completely jam packed, and we stopped at every single stop on the way, so what should have taken 15 min took almost 20 min.  By some miracle, we arrived at the restaurant with a few minutes to spare.

I was so relieved to see this sign.

We started off by ordering a bottle of wine.  My boyfriend chose this Cabernet Sauvignon wine from the Andretti Winery.  If you like red wine that doesn't have a strong tannin taste then you should try this wine. 

I ordered the City Cut, which was a 6-8 oz cut of meat (the smallest size).  The meal came with bread, salad with sherry vinaigrette, the choice of mashed or a baked potato, yorkshire pudding, and either creamed corn or creamed spinach.  I chose the baked potato and the creamed corn, and I can honestly say the entire meal was excellent (especially the salad).  I was very happy with the prime rib.  I ordered mine well done, and it was great.  Everyone left full and was happy with their meal.

The chef cutting the prime rib.

The prime rib, in all its glory.

After the meal, we decided to get some ice cream sandwiches.  Mine was two chocolate chip cookies with strawberry ice cream in the middle, and it was really good.

Then we went to a corner store, where I bought some Leninade, mostly for the name.  It was a surprisingly good lemon-lime soda.  The best part of the soda was definitely the label.

I know this post had nothing to do with fashion, but if you are ever in San Francisco and want to have a nicer meal, then you should definitely check out the House of Prime Rib.

Tonight I am going to see the Detroit Red Wings and the San Jose Sharks play in San Jose for Game 5 of the Stanley Cup Playoffs.  This is my first playoff game and my second hockey game ever (the first was the Edmonton Oilers against the Calgary Flames), so I am incredibly excited.  My sunburn is still peeling, so this is a good day to wear my Vinyasa Scarf. 

On another note, Happy Mother's Day!  I am going to call both my mom and my grandma before I head out to the game.   Unfortunately the card I sent my mom hasn't arrived yet, but I'm sure she'll be happy to receive a phone call this morning.