In the morning we went to delicious cafe called Zazie. We ate every morsel and completely filled us up. Lily and I especially loved the gingerbread pancakes.
After breakfast, we walked through a small park and found ourselves in the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood. Lily read up on it and shared education with the family about the significance of the neighborhood. In short, it was the focal point and starting place of the international Hippie movement.
We LOVED the houses in the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood. They were Victorian row homes.
After spending time walking around Haight-Ashbury, we finished listening to Mr. Penumbra’s 24 hour bookstore (amazing book) and then I put on some Janice Joplin to commemorate Haight-Ashbury. I’m pretty sure I was the only one in the car into her music. I discovered her around 6th grade and loved her so much I bought an album that I listened to growing up. I still love her music and get excited when it comes on. That raspy rock-n-roll voice is so great!
We then went to the Museum of Modern Art in San Francisco. The first noteworthy thing was their monochromatic bathrooms.
After all going to the bathroom, we started our tour outside.
We loved the colorful tunnel.
We really enjoyed learning about German modern artists like Sigmar Polke, Anselm Kiefer and Gerhard Richter.
Here is art from Elizabeth Murray and Morris Louis, two great American modern artists.
I really enjoyed Ellsworth Kelly. He was one of my favorite artists in the museum.
After the art museum we went to the Presidio where Mary and Ammon played while Lily sat in the car with napping Clarissa. Lydia played a little and hung out by me a little.
We them met up with Jon and Shirley again at their house. It was so fun to see them again and the kids had so much fun playing with each other. We traversed both fun topics and deep topics like racism, security and neighborhood dynamics. All in all it was both fun and very meaningful to spend time with them!
I snapped this as clean-up started to give a sense for how much fun the kids had while the grown-ups talked.
