San Francisco, the return

My BFF and I took a few days to escape reality and headed to San Fransisco last weekend. It was a short, but quite fun trip. We stayed at an older, remodeled hotel near Union Square, took a wine tour of Napa Valley, and shopped some and went to Alcatraz. All in all, a success.

Chinatown was my favorite shopping. It's just fun and you never know what you're going to find. For instance, this little pile tucked away in the back of a shop on Grant: Yes, this is fabric. All silk, most at $20/yard. There were some really pretty pieces tucked away in there. I told a couple of my close friends, but they promised to keep quiet about it. (The bag in my lap is from Laura from her ghost story challenge - it was the perfect size for this trip and quite appropriate, I think).

The wine company tour was nice, we hit 6 wineries and got tipsy by 11am.

My final haul, most of which was shipped directly home from the wineries, included some interesting items.

The green fabric was from the Chinatown shop (I purchased 2 pieces from Britex but see I missed photographing them. Dang). My son's a fan of Alexander the Great, the curved black piece is a wine bottle holder, the blue box is a travel jewelry box and the scarf is from Chinatown - 2 for $10, Karen has a green one. And no trip to SF is complete without a pencil sharpener in the Golden Gate Bridge.