A beautiful San Francisco Day with Dad

It was a wonderful, beautiful day in San Francisco this past Wednesday. The sun was out all day and it was in the mid 70's. My dad, Mike Flowers, came down for the day and he picked me up from my haircut in Cole Valley at Vierra and Friends and we headed down to Taylor's Automatic Refresher at the Ferry Building. If you haven't been yet, you have to check it out. The Original Taylor's is up in Napa, but this one has an even wider selection than the original. The line was long, but it was worth the wait. I had an amazing burger with a delicious white pistachio milkshake. The highlight, however, was the sweet potato fries. They were SO GOOD!

After browsing at Book Passage (the original Book Passage in Corte Madera is one of my all-time favorite bookstores) we ventured over to the Hyde Street Pier and explored the Ferry Boat Eureka that is moored there. It was pretty impressive to walk the decks of the largest wooden ferry boat afloat and to think that it played such an integral part in so many peoples daily lives in the era before the Golden Gate and SF/Oakland Bay Bridges. On board they also had some vintage cars in the holding bay (including a 1926 Nash sedan). After our our tour of the Eureka, we ventured over to Crissy Field and perused the book selection at the Warming Hut. The weather was perfect and the Golden Gate Bridge was untouched by fog. We then drove through the Presidio and past the Cliff House down the Great Highway. Finally, we finished our afternoon in one of my favorite places, Henry's House of Coffee on Noriega @ 23rd. We enjoyed the delicious Costa Rican Coffee that Henry had brewed that day and let the amazing smell of roasting coffee waft over us. I can't think of too many things better than ending a great day with a cup the best coffee in the City with one of my best friends-my Dad.