In April my Mom and I both headed to San Francisco to spend some time with Matt. We arrived on Thursday evening and met Matt downtown near our hotel. We went to a great local place for dinner called The Thirsty Bear. We shared several tapas dishes and had some great microbrews. On Friday Matty had to work so Mom and I set out to do some shopping. Although we didn't spend too much time in the stores we both walked away with several new items. I bought new sunglasses and a jacket and pants from lululemon. Mom got a shirt on sale from Banana and the same sunglasses I got but in a different color.
Friday night Matty picked us up from our hotel on Market Street and we headed towards the Warf for dinner at a local Chicago style pizza place. We enjoyed great pizza and got the chance to catch up. Saturday we headed up to Napa to do a few wine tours and to have lunch. Ben's client owns two wineries in Napa so we were able to get complementary tours and tastings while we were there. Chimney Rock was great and we were lucky enough to have a private tour where we saw the vineyards, where they make the wine and the warehouse where they store the wine before heading into the tasting room. We all ended up buying some wine and were able to get a great discount. Following Chimney Rock we headed to the famous Mustard's Resturant for lunch. When Ben and I were in Napa this time last year, we also ate at Mustard's and again, it didn't disappoint. The food was great and we left full. We headed to Rutherford Hill for our second tour and tasting. At Rutherford we were able to walk their man built caves where the barrels are stored and to taste while in the cave. Although we thought the tour at Chimney Rock was better we were able to do our tasting while in the caves so that was a pretty cool touch.
After a pretty long day in Napa we had to hit up the J Crew outlet on our way back to the city. I got some great deals at the outlet and then we headed back to Oakland for dinner. We ate at The Fat Lady which is a restaurant near Matt's house. We actually ate there when Mom and I first went to visit Matt in San Fran. Again the food didn't disappoint. After dinner we said goodbye to Matt and headed back to our hotel for a decent nights sleep before our flights the next day.
Overall we had a good visit with Matt and will have to try and get another trip planned out there soon. Here are a few pics from our visit.
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