San Fran Days 1 & 2

Since we've done a lot of the traditional attractions in the city, we really wanted to just chill out on this trip and focus on sleeping in, hitting up the greatest children's park in the city, and eating good food.

First park on the to-do list?  Mission Dolores...just four blocks away from Joey's.

All someone wanted to do was recline and swing on the special needs kid's swing.  I swear, he looked 80 just laying there and gently rocking back and forth.  :-)

Mission Dolores park just reopened a few weeks ago following a $3.5 million renovation of the children's park, so we lucked out.

Later that night, we went down to Fort Mason for the Off the Grid food trucks for dinner.

Though we chose to avoid the (previously posted) worm & cricket tacos, Uncle Joey managed to find Ryan a wonderful dinner- three different kinds of gourmet cupcakes.  You can see how distressed Ryan is about his dinner not being part of a healthy, balanced diet.

See what I mean?  He's pissed.  Really, really pissed.  (He angrily threw the cupcake to the ground in disgust right after this picture was taken...or he gobbled it.  I can't quite remember, either way it disappeared.)

The next day we hit up a second park right near our apartment called Duboce before hopping on the train to meet some family in Union Square.  Ryan got to see his Grammy Kay at the Cheesecake Factory & the Disney Store.

King Tutenkamenryan atop his royal throne...

Clearly he is pleased with the belly dancers.

However, he is Ryan.  And Ryan cannot pass up loud, pumping Egyptian music and an empty stage.  He performed roughly four numbers for the restaurant (they even lit the stage back up for him after the real belly dancer left).  Sadly, he earned no tips from the tight-fisted crowd.  :-(

Our amazing entrees...I had the kushari, which was my favorite dish in Egypt back in '06.