Union Square

This is going to be mostly a pictoral because my wireless keyboard has gone on strike.  And why, pray tell, is it near impossible to find a regular mouse and keyboard rather than a wireless one.  I really don’t need it to be wireless and the batteries are forever going out on me.

Anyway……Spent an absolutely lovely afternoon in San Francisco today.  First shopping in Union Square, then having a late lunch of sushi before heading over to the Geary Theatre to see A.C.T.’s performance of A Christmas Carol. 

The windows at Saks were just magical.  I can’t even make sense of this picture and I was there!          

Looking out the 2nd story window of Saks towards Macys. 

Wonder how many lights are on that tree.

How’s that for a gingerbread house?  It’s something like 1300 lbs. of edible architecture.  Taken at the Saint Francis hotel.  Their pastry chef does one every year and its entirely edible.  I couldn’t get a good picture of the base of it but here was an entire gingerbread village below the castle.

It’s on to the show!  Geary Theatre (which I think has actually been renamed the A.C.T. Theatre).  We saw a wonderful performance of A Christmas Carol.  My first time ever seeing ANY performance of that play. 

Back in my early 20’s I had a friend that used to work for A.C.T.  We could go to performance and if it wasn’t sold out we could see it for free.  We couldn’t always sit together but for free who cares.  I saw "A Midsummer Night’s Dream" with a relatively unknown (except to San Francisco theater goers) actress playing the part of Titania ~ Annette Bening.  We actually got to go to the cast party afterwards and I met her.  She was very much aware of her rising star.  She was also gorgeous, with waist length blond hair. 

Look!  A cable car! 

This is about a close to snow as we get in the Bay Area.  It was very twinkly.

The whole day and evening was very twinkly and sparkly.