{"id":877,"date":"2016-10-28T09:42:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-28T13:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pisarro.org\/aboutnick\/?p=877"},"modified":"2016-10-28T09:44:34","modified_gmt":"2016-10-28T13:44:34","slug":"san-francisco-day-7-october-12-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pisarro.org\/aboutnick\/?p=877","title":{"rendered":"San Francisco Day 7 – October 12, 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"

After a fun breakfast with people from Holland who had\u00a0retired to Spain, we had a phone call from Nicholas. \u00a0He recommended that we go to\u00a0the Contemporary Jewish Museum<\/em>, because it was featuring an exhibit on Stanley Kubrick that he thought we would enjoy. He also invited us to join him at\u00a0his\u00a0office for lunch.<\/p>\n

We called the Contemporary Jewish Museum<\/em>, but as it was Yom Kippur, it was closed.\u00a0Instead we did a \u00a0self-guided walking tour\u00a0that was in our AAA Tour Book. We began at Union Square. \"dsg_3593\"<\/a>We explored Nordstrom’s and \u00a0founds its sales staff to be very friendly and helpful, but we were not there to shop. We walked through the Financial District, followed by the Civic Center. \u00a0There was supposed to be a photography exhibit at City Hall, but we never found it. Instead we were captivated by\u00a0the weddings that were taking place.<\/p>\n

\"dsg_3638\"<\/a>I have been to the New York City Marriage Bureau,<\/em> where\u00a0it’s very crowded, there are long lines, and those getting married have to wait for their turn in a small space. Not so in San Francisco! The actual ceremonies took place atop a long staircase, and then the newlywed couples\u00a0and their wedding party, all formally dressed, posed for\u00a0photos on the staircase. Nick really enjoyed photographing\u00a0\u00a0the couples on the staircase.\u00a0We\u00a0left after a bridesmaid\u00a0who knew that \u00a0Nick was not the photographer her family had hired, began asking \u00a0us questions.\u00a0Fortunately,\u00a0it\u00a0was time for lunch.<\/p>\n

We arrived at the Twitter Building and got our guest passes. Nicholas joined us and showed us \u00a0the rooftop garden adjacent to the cafeteria. We would have eaten there had it been warmer, but eating indoors was \u00a0fine.<\/p>\n

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Twitter employees can eat three meals a day for free if they \u00a0so choose. However, Nicholas would have to stay an hour\u00a0after quitting time in order to get dinner there, and I’m sure\u00a0he’d have to arrive\u00a0\u00a0significantly early for breakfast. Lunch works out well for Twitter, because employees tend to go right \u00a0back to work after their meal. Some items\u00a0are available daily, such as sandwiches \u00a0and salads of all types. There are also hot entrees with \u00a0a variety of side dishes that change daily, as well as a variety of beverages. I don’t remember seeing junk food. The room was airy and soothingly decorated, \u00a0and was very different from\u00a0what typically comes to mind when I hear the word “cafeteria,” and the food was good.<\/p>\n

\"dsg_3698\"<\/a>Nicholas asked if we would like to join him at one of his favorite Japanese restaurants for dinner. Of course we would! We decided to\u00a0spend the afternoon at the Asian Museum of Art<\/em>, which was near the Twitter Building and the Civic Center. From the AAA Tour Book: “From Japanese painted scrolls and bamboo baskets to Korean lacquerware and textiles to Thai paintings and rare Tibetan scrolls, the museum showcases the incredibly rich and varied spectrum of Asian art.”\u00a0We marveled at the\u00a0beauty the art, again considering the significance of art to humankind\u00a0for thousands of years.<\/p>\n

<\/a>The Japanese restaurant was crowded with locals, always a good sign. Nicholas ordered a variety of appetizers and lots of different \u00a0kinds of sushi for us to share. \u00a0I hoped \u00a0ginger ice cream\u00a0would be on the menu,\u00a0without luck. We settled for green tea ice cream.<\/p>\n

We were leaving the following morning, so it was time to say good-bye to Nicholas. Saying good-bye is always \u00a0hard, but the week \u00a0we had with our son\u00a0couldn’t have been better, and he’ll be home for Christmas.<\/p>\n

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After a fun breakfast with people from Holland who had\u00a0retired to Spain, we had a phone call from Nicholas. \u00a0He recommended that we go to\u00a0the Contemporary Jewish Museum, because it was featuring an exhibit on Stanley Kubrick that he thought we would enjoy. He also invited us to join him at\u00a0his\u00a0office for lunch. We called … Continue reading San Francisco Day 7 – October 12, 2016<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-san-francisco-2016"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/pisarro.org\/aboutnick\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/pisarro.org\/aboutnick\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/pisarro.org\/aboutnick\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pisarro.org\/aboutnick\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pisarro.org\/aboutnick\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=877"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/pisarro.org\/aboutnick\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":880,"href":"http:\/\/pisarro.org\/aboutnick\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877\/revisions\/880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/pisarro.org\/aboutnick\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pisarro.org\/aboutnick\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pisarro.org\/aboutnick\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}