Two quick things...In case you missed any of my prior Girls Weekend posts, just click here to see them all! To read Blonde Oklahoma Girl's posts on the trip, click here!
So Saturday was a little bit more of a laid back, play it by ear, low key sort of day. The first reason for this is that we were all freaking exhaused from the insanity that was Napa and karaoke the night before, and the second was that the next morning we would be running and I knew that if I was going to make the 13.1 miles, I would have to behave on Saturday!
We started out the morning meeting up with Gonzaga Friend and heading to the Farmer's Market. I'm telling y'all, if you are ever in San Francisco on a Saturday morning, this is a MUST do! You talk about amazingly fresh fruits and veggies, nuts and honey, baked goods, goat cheese, bread, flowers....you name it, they have it. We had a great time just taking in the beauty of the market and picking out our picnic cuisine!
After the market, we headed for the SF Marathon packet pick up to get our numbers and race shirts. I am pretty darn in love with the half marathon shirt--it's orange (it's fate!!) with the bridge on the front, 13.1 on the back, and the marathon theme "Worth the Hurt" on the sleeve.
While we were there, I saw this tank top and thought it was awesome. TOTALLY kicking myself for not buying it! It says "Half marathon....I like it because it's shorter and I'm lazy like that."
After that, we headed for the beach at the Hyde Street Pier. We had big plans to hit up Baker Beach---probably the most beautiful spot in the City (and one portion of which is a nude beach, which both scared and intrigued the Oklahoma Girls!) but we were starving and tired and decided to just go with the closer option.We, of course, took some ocean side shots.
My favorite is this one below---Loud Oklahoma Girl and I were attempting to jump and College Roomie was going to take a shot with us up in the air. Well, as we were jumping, the tide came in and we ended up landing in the freezing cold water soaking ourselves. I absolutely love this picture!
The picnic was one of those things that may have been better in theory--you know, in your mind when you sit at home on our couch. We did have yummy food----fresh strawberries, black berries, grapes and peaches, shaved parmesean cheese, jalapeno jack cheese, sourdough bread, salami....but, alas, the wind sort of covered our yummy food in sand.
Things did get better when we moved from the beach to a bench overlooking Ghirirdelli Square, but the sand blasting damage was done. Whatev. In the words of the nice homeless man who we gave our leftover bread too when I warned him it might be a little sandy, "A little salt never hurt anyone." I like people with a positive attitude.
So....we also spent a lot of time on public transportation, entertaining people on the bus with our thoughts on "if we were prostitutes" and "If you select green as a wedding color I am not wearing your dress" type of discussions.
And we ended the night with a "carb loading" meal at an amazing Italian restaurant in Pacific Heights called Luisas. We're talking homeade pastas, wonderful salads, and great wine (of which we did not partake--we were trying to be hard core runners, and our livers were still getting over the day before!)
Stay tuned for tomorrow----race day!From the beach eating bread, cheese and fruit all covered in sand.....
Xoxo,
Gossip Girls!
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