Birthday Celebration, Day 1....

Well, day 1 of my Birthday was just too much fun. So much fun I accidentally deleted half of the pics. Oh well, here we go...

The day started with dropping off our scooters for their first services. Scooter-Poppy also wanted to get some accessories on her Stella so we were there for almost 2 hours. But, her scooter is all chromed out now. She's very pretty. Check out that hubcap!



After we picked up the scooters that afternoon and were driving away, one of the caps to the chrome pieces fell off. Hmmmm.

Back to the day...from the scooter shop we headed on foot to Union Square. We walked around the farmer's market at the Civic Center. Nice looking stuff there! Then for snackies at E&O Trading Company. Corn Fritters and Salt-n-Pepper Calamari. Okay, Boozie-Kelly had a couple of cocktails...Hey, it's my birthday!

Off to get the GoCar. So this is the "Mr. SF tour". Local stuff that's not on the standard tour. Mr. SF is evidently some internet expert guy on San Francisco. Nothing all that new. Although, the Union Square underground parking garage is the very first one of it's kind. Who knew? I didn't.

So the little GoCar is a rattle trap. It tops out at 30mph, but we couldn't get it much past 20 and barely 15 on a hill.

Here we are trying to get up Arguello:



You felt every little pothole and bump in the road...and there were lots. Got to the point where Pothole-Poppy was hitting them on purpose.

Okay, here's the tour...

The weather was awesome!



Transamerica Building and the Condor Club. I'm sure there was some story about the Transamerica Building, but I don't remember what it was. However, most of you probably know that the Condor Club was the home of Carol Doda, but what you probably don't know is that she was the spokeswoman for Channel 36 many years ago "Carol Doda, the perfect 36". But you know she was way more than a 36! See, I know more than Mr. SF!





City hall, the old Alhambra Theater on Polk and the Exploratorium:







Then we went to a bunch of other neighborhoods; those are the pics I accidentally deleted. I'm sure it was all interesting.

We dumped the little GoCar back at the barn and then walked over to the Chieftain. It's a bar on 5th/Howard. It's historic too but I don't remember why. As it happens, Traveling-Poppy will be going to Europe this summer with MomJean. One of the stops will be Ireland. Butinski-Poppy overheard the waitress talking about some area of Ireland which happens to be one of the areas that Adventure-Poppy and MomJean will be visiting. Social-Butterfly-Poppy struck up a conversation with the gal and got all kinds of intel on where to go. Yay!

From there it was time to pick up our scoots. Along the way, we saw this display in the window. Poppy thinks this looks like a decomposing Burt Reynolds:



This guy was just funny looking:



After we got the scoots, we headed to the Misson. Stopped in at the Lexington for a cold one:



Then headed to the West Portal area and found a cute little Mexican place for dinner. I don't remember the name though...El-something, I think.

The end of Birthday Celebration, Day 1.