San Francisco Giants!

Sleep- in til 11am....WOW!  Oh but it was a great sleep indeed.  Baseball at 1pm so needed to get a hurry on.  Had breakfast at a cute little (very hot!...heaters on full blast) cafe called Pergamino's just down the hill.  We were really looking forward to a good coffee (you know the kind I mean Deb).  Alas it was not meant to be.  Apart from Starbucks we can NOT seem to get a decent coffee that doesn't taste stroooooong and like it has been sitting and brewing all day. Darren isn't usually fussy and drinks whatever he's given (unlike me) and I'd think he'd agree with me on this one.  We don't think you ask for a cappuccino expecting it to have chocolate on top, because two waitresses have told us so far that it doesn't come like that. Ah well... Apart from this, the food was awesome.  I ordered corned beef hash and it certainly was 'just like Mamma used to make'.  Oh Dad, if you were here, you would have been in your element!  It was a very big serving and really hit the spot.  The waitress was super, super cool...had something to do with the name we think.  'Denise'  :)

BASEBALL!! (hence the orange font people...Giants colours) 

I've always thought how cool and amazing it would be to go to the baseball over here.  Well, yep, that it was.  I bought a 'Giants' cap at the entrance stand and then we proceeded to walk up to the first tier.  Can't tell you how incredible it was to walk out there and just see this stadium that was packed to capacity.  187 consecutive sell-out games for AT& T Stadium and you can understand why once you've been there and experienced the atmosphere that IS baseball American-style.  It was a great few hours and we left at the bottom of the 8th just to get out before 42000 other fans who would certainly know where they were going...we didn't...so a head start seemed a good idea.   

 

Our first stop was Powell Street station.  At the time we had no idea where it was, but we were there and ended up at a Westfield Shopping Centre, containing Nordstrum, Bloomingdale's etc.  A pleasant surprise awaited us at the ladies shoe section in Bloomingdale's - mostly male sales assistants and all dressed in a suit and tie.  It looked great.  The prices are really superb, as a lot of people had previously told me, but unfortunately no size seven and a half in the bright red sports shoes.  Damn...

Second stop - upstairs to floor four and we had entered Nordstrum.  It seemed similar to Bloomingdale's, but really we didn't have a big look around - we were mainly heading for a bar/bistro that the elevator sign said was on this floor.  Found it!!  So interesting.... a very large-ish restaurant in a department store.  Maybe that is the norm over here.  We had a few wines and nibblies (lovely waitress again who was very accommodating and helpful when she knew we were not from here - she had to deal with a very rude guy behind us who was not impressed with something.  His face said maybe he was a rum drinker and had probably consumed way too many this afternoon.  It was nice when he said he was leaving).
 
That was it for our Sunday.... spent Mothers' Day at the baseball and loved it.  My one observation, even at the baseball, was that so many many women over here have BIG hair...like long and blow-dried to the max and BIG!  Farrah lives on...