alemany market with greg and chinatown with chanda

after chanda left for her 9 am ballet class, greg and i went out to the green market and had a mexican breakfast of chile rellanos, tacos and mexican coffee (sweet with lots of sugar).

coming home along alemany blvd to drop off the delicious sage honey i found (so amazing!) 

 back out again and on our way to the bus stop . . 

 to catch the bus over bernal heights to mission and 24th streets where we transferred for the bus downtown (civic center/city hall).

 riding the san francisco buses up and down the hills is a lot of fun! they always start up by saying "hold on!"

 waiting on mission street . .

 the opera house on van ness avenue . . 

 and the ballet school on franklin avenue . . 

 waiting in sage cafe since we were early in meeting her.

 when she got out of class, we walked along van ness (past the post office) to ellis street and through the tenderloin neighborhood to union square, and then along stockton street . .

 to the chinatown arches . .

 we explored lots of stores together . . (including my favorite: peking bazaar where we went in and became instantly discombobulated amidst all the beautiful porcelain dishes . .

there were so many that it was impossible for me to choose between black cats, goldfish, luminous gold and pink flowers and bucolic garden scenes . . ).

we did manage to choose two cute little totoros today; one for her and one for korrina.

 we walked along the alley by city lights and walked through the store together. i picked up two books for jason, along with a pirandello for myself . .

 and then we visited an art store northeast of the bookstore. i think greg was looking for a notebook and chanda was looking for colored pencils . . or maybe it was the airplane glue she uses for her ballet slippers, but they didn't have any.

 by the time we were passing through chinatown again, it was evening (around 8 pm) and the stores were closing and chanda was grumbling about being hungry.

 both she and greg are terrible bears when they're hungry.

 of course she found a place on her iphone . . but not until she and her father took a few jabs at each other over the kind of food they should have (he prefers diner food and she prefers japanese food).

 as you can see, the japanese food won.

 he was really okay . . because he'll really eat anything.

 sanraku . . it was very good.

as you can see! (i had my favorite: shrimp tempura).

we made a stop at trader joe's on our way to the bus stop on van ness avenue, on our way home (it was a bit of a long ride home as we got stuck in traffic just past the ballet school).