So Jason was more than done with
Disneyland by today and I was just tired out. We slept in and decided to go to Mimi's for breakfast, except there was a 20 minute wait. I was too hungry, so we skipped over to Millie's instead. Meh, this wasn't as good, much more Denny's like. Jason got a eggs/bacon etc meal and I just ate his pancake. It worked, but I would definitely recommend Mimi's over Millie's.
Today we were going to head over to Garden Walk and go to Target. I know it's not exciting, but we don't have Target in Canada and it's just so much nicer than
Walmart.
Garden Walk was OK, but I guess it's mostly restaurants and not really that many stores. We spent about an hour there. Jason bought an O'Neill shirt and I bought a Hollister shirt. We hopped back in the car and headed out to Target. Whee! We stocked up on Vitamin Water and various other snacks and toiletries etc. We browsed most of the aisles too. I checked out their scrapbooking section, but it was nowhere near as good as what I remembered the Bellingham Target to be.
I think by now it was just before noon, and we weren't really ready to head back to the hotel yet. So we randomly drove around Anaheim and Orange. That was kinda fun. Ran into a
Best Buy and Jason checked out the prices of random stuff, but it was mostly pretty similar to good ol' Canada. Stopped and got some gas and J got a McDonald's iced coffee. We decided to pick up some Quizno's on Harbour on the way back to the hotel. It was OK, far from the best Quizno's I've ever had.
We spent the rest of the afternoon at the pool. We headed to Cheesecake Factory back at GardenWalk for dinner. It was good. It's nice being a party of two, we never had to wait for tables anywhere on our trip.
Their menu is super overwhelming! Jason had a heineken, ha! And I had a glass of white wine. We kinda dressed up, it was nice. Shoulda got the waitress to take a pic, because my dress was really cute! Oh well. Here's Jason.
I just ordered an appy because I knew there was cheesecake to come. I think these were avocado spring rolls.
And Jason got (surprise!) Chicken Madeira. It was just grilled chicken in a wine and mushroom sauce. Really rich, but he thought it was good. My food was ok, but got boring after about half of it.
We ordered the... Kahlua Coffee Cheesecake, it was deeeelicious. It looked a LOT like this, although this is a lovely borrowed photo from yelp.
We had a late dinner tonight, so we just headed back to the hotel to relax and pack. We had to be up early the next day to leave.
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The next morning we got up fairly early. We had about a 6 hour drive so I wanted to leave by about 9:30 so we could get there before any traffic issues. We headed back to Mimi's to say goodbye to my yummy french toast.
Bye Mimi's, we'll miss you!
And off we drove up the I-5 towards San Francisco. I took the first leg and drove as far as Kettlemen's City. It was a good drive, really hot though. 44 degrees was the highest - sorry, I think that's 110 degrees farenheit. Gotta love a car that tells you the temperature. Here we stopped for gas and In N Out burger! Yay, it was soooo good. Cheeseburger Animal Style. And cheap too. I ate in the car and Jason took over, he was still full from breakfast.
After eating I stayed awake just until we got off the I-5 towards San Francisco and then I fell asleep. Woke up in time to help Jason navigate towards our hotel - Columbus Motor Inn. Jason was a bit stressed out driving through the city. It was busy and the streetlights were on the corners of the streets instead of in the middle and the street our hotel was on went diagonally across the normal 'grid' streets. But we made it no problem.
We checked in and got a room on the top floor facing the street. We had pretty awesome views!
Coit Tower
Alcatraz
Church
Even just looking down the street was cute
It was right next door to this... but it's not what you might think! It's a pretty famous concert venue.
Jason was now starving, so we walked down to Fisherman's Wharf and basically stopped at the first place. It was cheap, but only mediocre. After this we just walked along, we were both kind of grumpy this evening for some reason. We didn't have any plans for this night so we just went back to the hotel. We were a bit bored so we decided to walk up to Ghiradelli Square and get some ice cream. It was a fairly long walk and it was super cold out. We had gotten used to Anaheim weather!
Sorry, no ice cream pics, the place was packed and unfortunately not very relaxing. I'm just not really a huge fan of Ghiradelli ice cream. They have one in DTD at Disneyworld and I felt the same way. It has lots of little ice crystals in it and it's not smooth and creamy. Oh well. It kept us busy. We walked back to our hotel along the water and called it a night!
We weren't quite sure if we liked San Francisco yet. Ho-hum meal, it was cold and it seemed really deserted... but it grew on us for sure. More to come soon, I should have another installment on Saturday.
) It was a great way to say goodbye to DCA, we wouldn't be back. 
But I figure some people are reading and not saying anything, so I'll just keep going.
Then we decided to head back to Rainforest Cafe for some drinks. We took a few photos on our way out, to say goodbye.
Anyway, glad you guys had fun! I'm sticking around for the rest of the TR! 
No kidding? There are real live animals IN THE WILD? 
