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This is the last post from my trip to California (part 1, part 2 and part 3) and the last full day of my visit with my sister and her family.
My sister and I drove down to San Francisco for a girls’ day out. On the wettest day of my visit, fun!
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We headed for the Japan Center because I reaaaally wanted to go to Daiso. This is the Peace Pagoda outside the Japan Center. The pink blossoms cheered up a grey sky.
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Inside the Japan Center.
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Fake food so you can see what’s on offer in this restaurant!
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Ah, Daiso! All the cute! We don’t need any more plates and I was worried they’d smash to pieces on the trip home, so no kawaii plates for me. I have a thing for blue and white ceramics so it was really difficult not to bring home several bowls and plates and… chop stick rests?
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We had lunch in a cosy little restaurant called La Méditeranée which serves Mediterranean/Middle Eastern food. It was delicious. Not a scrap was left on my plate. One of the best meals I have ever had.
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Random street, walking back from the restaurant to the Japan Center where we had parked the car.
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Palace of Fine Arts. In the rain. So much rain.
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That’s my goofy sister photo bombing my selfie with the Palace of Fine Arts! :-D It was a bit cold in the rain but it did make the colour of the buildings and the greenery more saturated. The Palace really is a striking structure. I had seen it on my previous visit to San Francisco, but only from a distance. It was nice to see it up close.
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Obligatory shot of a cable car. ;-)
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I was trying to take a picture of the houses in the distance, only later did I notice the eye lashes on this VW bus!
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We drove back to Napa across the Golden Gate Bridge and my sister pulled into the viewing area so I could get some pictures.
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It was still raining quite a bit at this point, but I had taken off my jacket to dry over the back of the car seat. So all I had to protect me from the wet stuff was my scarf. I use the word ‘protect’ pretty lightly as you can probably see! I got pretty wet, but it was worth it.
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I thought it was quite delightful that this rainbow arched tunnel is named after Robin Williams. It seems fitting somehow.
I had a great trip to visit my sister and her family. I wish they lived closed, of course, so we could see each other more often. But then I would have had an excuse to go to California. ;-)