{"id":785926,"date":"2012-05-01T13:09:27","date_gmt":"2012-05-01T13:09:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/?p=785926"},"modified":"2012-05-01T18:37:35","modified_gmt":"2012-05-01T18:37:35","slug":"lola-visits-san-francisco-dinner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/2012\/05\/01\/lola-visits-san-francisco-dinner\/","title":{"rendered":"Lola Visits: San Francisco Dinner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the way home from Filoli, I did not take Bay area rush hour traffic into account. \u00a0I missed an exit and ended up in downtown San Francisco, just as a Giants game was about to begin. \u00a0Instead of getting back into the mess, we decided to have dinner in San Francisco and get home late.<\/p>\n<p><em>SO GLAD WE DID!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>We ended up going to one of our family faves, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.franciscanrestaurant.com\/\">The Franciscan<\/a>. \u00a0The water view of Alcatraz, boats, a charming El Salvadoran waiter, seal playing among the gulls, and a roasted crab before me, all made for delightful meal.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/IMG_6888.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-785927\" title=\"IMG_6888\" src=\"http:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/IMG_6888-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/IMG_6888-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/IMG_6888-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We walked Fisherman&#8217;s Wharf after dinner to Ghiradelli Square. \u00a0While Lola was sharing a story, I noticed a woman dressed in pink Pippi-longstalking attire, riding a bike, up the hill, with bubbles flowing out the back of her bike. \u00a0Just as I was processing what I saw, a bunch of bikes followed her&#8230;then a bunch more&#8230;then&#8230;ummm&#8230;.was that a guy wearing a geeeee-string?&#8230;.no, they must be flesh colored tights&#8230;.no, they&#8217;re not&#8230;more bikes&#8230;.a police escort&#8230;.what in the world is this?&#8230;more bikes&#8230;.GAH, there&#8217;s a biker wearing absolutely nothing!&#8230;more bikes&#8230;.now, two women topppp-lessss&#8230;really? \u00a0Well, we are in San Francisco after all. \u00a0Lola hollered out to the bikers asking what is going on. \u00a0One biker (fully clothed), pulled over and said it was &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfcriticalmass.org\/\">Critical Mass&#8217;<\/a>, a\u00a0monthly bike ride on the last Friday of the month. \u00a0There is no set route or distance. \u00a0Bikers just ride together. \u00a0This evening, there had to have been at least 200 bikes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/IMG_6889.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-785928\" title=\"IMG_6889\" src=\"http:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/IMG_6889-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/IMG_6889-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/IMG_6889-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/IMG_6890.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-785929\" title=\"IMG_6890\" src=\"http:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/IMG_6890-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/IMG_6890-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/IMG_6890-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the way home from Filoli, I did not take Bay area rush hour traffic into account. \u00a0I missed an exit and ended up in downtown San Francisco, just as a Giants game was about to begin. \u00a0Instead of getting back into the mess, we decided to have dinner in San Francisco and get home [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-785926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thisnthat"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=785926"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":785932,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785926\/revisions\/785932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=785926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=785926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=785926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}