SF adventures (Part II)

I have a lot of knitting updates to give you but I can't find the memory card reader for my camera so it will have to wait. Trust me it'll be better with pictures.

In the mean time, and a long time later, here are the rest of the pictures from San Francisco.

Those of you who come to Liberty's may remember that, earlier this year, I knit two baby tops and a blanket for my friend Marivi's little girl, Elena. Well I had never met Elena and our trip to SF was all in honor of this little girl who was having her naming ceremony. Here she is with her (very) proud parents.

It was lovely to meet her and especially nice to see Marivi again (it had been a while to say the least). We had a lovely time and spent quite a few hours sitting around drinking coffee which is what you should do if you haven't seen friends for a long time AND they have a delicious little girl for you to play with.

We also did some sight seeing. First of all: I give you another gratuitous shot of the seals. I can identify with all of that lying around and socialising.

We did an afternoon trip to Alcatraz. The tour was interesting and we both enjoyed it lots. Here's the island from the boat as we approached:

Here's the cell that they think might have housed Al Capone:

And here is one of the isolation cells. I think that the husband thought that I would have loved to spend some time there knitting but I reckon it was a little on the dark and damp side. Other than that I would have considered it. I didn't get much knitting done on this trip to the US and was willing to grab any opportunity.

I took this picture on the boat on the way back from Alcatraz. The waves were crashing up against the boat windows and I thought that the effect on the window was quite interesting. And for once, it came out well (I have an interesting history of taking what I think are 'cool' shots and then, three weeks later, staring at the results wondering what was meant to be so good about them).

Finally, I saw these fishing boats. SF is also a working fishing port something that apparently not too many people are aware of - or at least that's what the signs next to the port said. So I thought I would spread the awareness.

Just in case you were wondering, I didn't make it to a yarn store. There were just too many things to do and the husband and I hadn't seen much of each other so I was loathe to leave him alone for too long. More proper knitting content soon, I promise. Off to hunt for the camera memory card reader.

Posted by Amelia at October 14, 2004 08:58 AM | TrackBack