01 After checking in at the Monarch hotel we check out Chinatown.JPG

02 Streets with Chinese store fronts selling kimonos, spices, buddhas and what not.JPG

03 The street signs are bilingual.JPG

04 A true melting pot - Chinese street lantern, the Irish Church and a high rise office building in the background.JPG

05 Inna eating dim sum in Pearl City restaurant on Jackson street in Chinatown.JPG

06 Good stuff, although we keep our fingers crossed that it really is chicken and shrimp.......JPG

07 Cable car on Nob Hill, we never got around to riding one.JPG

08 Grace Cathedral Episcopal Church on Nob Hill.JPG

09 Inna in the view towards the east, it is starting to look like rain.JPG

10 We find shelter in Quetzal coffee house.jpg

11 Evening falls and still we hide inside over good coffee.JPG

12 Back at the hotel this is our view, a little bit shady it is.JPG

13 On Saturday Melissa flies in and we are a party of three.JPG

14 Cafe Trieste has excellent coffee and superb pastries to start the day.jpg

15 There was a group of musicians playing at the cafe, old Italian songs, very cute.JPG

16 Inna in front of the band.JPG

17 After breakfast we walk up Telegraph hill to Coit tower.JPG

18 View down from telegraph Hill.JPG

19 Talitha in view.jpg

20 Well well.JPG

21 The closest view of the Golden Gate Bridge.JPG

22 Next on the menu is pier 39 at the Fishermans wharf.JPG

23 A Major tourist attraction, yes with capitol M.JPG

24 Talitha the toury.JPG

25 Talitha the toury almost lost in the crowd.JPG

26 A typical shop at the pier.JPG

27 Throngs of people, and it is not even high season.JPG

28 We have lunch at overpriced Scomas.JPG

29 Inna eating crab cakes, that were actually pretty good.JPG

30 We take the bus back to Union Square.JPG

31 Talitha scored Karma points by getting up for an elderly couple.JPG

32 Sunday morning is all about the Nike Womens Marathon.JPG

33 15 thousand women run it and then there are the supporters.JPG

34 We are to meet Inna at the finish.JPG

35 That seems like a mission impossible with this many people milling about.JPG

36 In the end we do find her with her finishers t-shirt on, GO Inna.JPG

37 This years medal is the diamond shaped one, the other one is from two years ago.JPG