Trip to San Francisco ~ Saturday, May 15th 2004

Saturday and last full day in SF

I spent the morning shopping for yarn and eating Eggs Bennie with my mother before heading back to the hotel to sleep some more.

We woke up and joined my mother and some friends of hers for dinner at the Empress Of China.

As is often the case, a couple hours after eating Chinese food, we were hungry again. Leo had been craving some Dungeoness crab so we headed to Fisherman's Wharf and ate at the Crab House for the second time in three days.

We then bought $50 worth of chocolate. I did so against my will, I swear.

We had hoped to meet up with my Cousin that night who was at a concert in town somewhere, but, alas, his concert ran late enough that he needed to catch the last train out to Emeryville to get home.

Since we were already in Fisherman's Wharf, we picked up another cigar for Leo and then went to the little blues bar across from the cigar shop.

It's a bit of a tourist trap, but the band was decent and people were dancing and having fun. When I got word that we wouldn't be seeing my cousin, we headed on out to see if we could find a club called Roccapulco, a Salsa club that a couple cabbies had mentioned to us.

The pictures don't really do the place justice, but Roccapulco was really great. It's a huge, two level club with a large ballroom floor and a live band. The balcony afforded us a great view of the happenings and I even convinced Leo to do a little dancing with me.

After nearly closing the club down, we headed out for a walk and Leo enjoyed his cigar. When we started to feel peckish again, we hailed a cab and asked about the clubs in the area. The cabby offered to tell us about all the after hours clubs and we got the Cliff Notes style tour before he took us back to our hotel.