Sausalito

Today we wanted to have a special day with Ba Ngoai since it is her last weekend before she goes home to Connecticut (boo!). We met up with Ba Ngoai and Ba H in Walnut Creek. Ba H couldn't join us for our adventure so we had to say goodbye. We walked around the shopping area and ran into a singing group who was performing in the square. Rosie loved listening to the Christmas carols. Then we headed to a restaurant called Stanford's, where we noshed on a tasty lunch of calamari, fancy mac and cheese, a crab and artichoke sandwich AND...bloody marys! Rosie fell asleep in our arms at the table, which hasn't happened in a long time.
After lunch we hopped in the car and headed north. Our first stop was an impromptu trip through a farmer's market that was shutting down. Di T wanted to treat Rosie to a veggie of her choice at a farmer's market. After much deliberation she decided on radishes.

 We then continued on our way to Tiburon, a cute little town on the water, north of San Francisco. It was a beautiful, sunny day. We walked around the historic little downtown, then took a pit stop by a grassy patch so Rosie could stretch her legs. This might have been her favorite part of the day. She was infatuated with the leaves. She also got in some good exercise crawling up and down the mini-hill over and over again. She was especially fond of going downhill, fearlessly going into an accidental face plant.

Ba Ngoai fishing tasty leaves out of Rosie's mouth

 The view from Tiburon was striking with Angel Island and San Francisco in the background.

 Next stop: Sausalito. Despite the chilly wind, we took another long walk in downtown Sausalito. We walked along the docks at all the boats and window shopped. Ba Ngoai bought Mommy a warm winter hat...we'll consider that our support of Small Business Saturday!

 Rosie fell asleep about 2 minutes into the walk, which was no surprise since she was all snuggly in the carrier with DaddyO.

After over an hour of walking around we decided it was time to get off our feet, rest, and have dinner. We got a recommendation to go to Scoma's which is right along the bay. We had yet another super tasty meal of fresh oysters, pear and arugula salad (dressing so tasty), cioppino, and halibut. Rosie finally woke up for this this part and munched on bread and halibut while making friends with the restaurant.

 With full bellies and tired feet, we headed back to Orinda where we dropped Ba Ngoai off at Ba H's house. Rosie snuggled with Ba H in bed a little and played with Bijou before we headed back home.

Throughout the day there was a lot of laughing (mostly between Rosie and Ba Ngoai...so good). It was a full, beautiful and fun day!