I didn't have time to enter yesterday's fun, so today, Thursday Oct. 23rd, I am catching up from yesterday. One of these times maybe Claude will try entering his interpretation of our day so you get some variety.
Petaluma is not that far from Sausalito, maybe about 50 or 60 miles. Sausalito is just north of the Golden Gate Bridge for those of you who aren't familiar with that area. It is a beautiful little marina area with a long street that runs along the San Pablo Bay which connects to the San Francisco Bay. On our way to Sausolito we took a turn for the Golden Gate National Recreation area that is directly before you get to the Golden Gate Bridge. This was suppose to have a nice 90 minute hike/walk for us but turns out more like a 30 minute hike/walk around the lagoon and ending on the beach. It was quite windy but really warm and sunny so we took the hike. We need to do more exercise, but seem to find time for everything but that.
After our hike, we headed for Sausalito for lunch. Always have to find something to eat :) and we had only about an hour until we needed to head back north to see the Himalayan Bowl guy. We randomely chose to turn down a street that headed toward the marina and drove by an old brown dark looking vacant restaurant we thought was the one for us....but nope...we kept on going around the corner and there, at the dock, was a place called FISH. We headed toward that and we loved, loved, loved our lunch. I had fish taco's, very small, fresh grilled white fish on a tiny white corn tortilla. So fresh and delicious. Claude chose the dungenes crab sandwhich that also came with a huge order of their famously delicious french fries. We both loved what we had and felt really good we had found that place. If you're ever in that area, do check it out. Not too much food, just a good amount and relaxed. You can sit outside in the sun on picnic tables if you want and look at all the boats. If you are on a budget, don't bother eating anywhere in the San Francisco area.
After we ate we still had time to cruise by the main street in Sausalito but didn't have time to stop. We headed back north again and found the Himalayan bowl man, Joseph. He has a warehouse in San Rafael. I had found his websit several months ago and he specializes in the old authentic ancient singing bowls. http://www.himalayanbowls.com/ For me, I can't tell one from the other by looking, but they do have a very distinctly different tone when you compare the new ones, to the old ones. He had some "families" of bowls chosen for me to try. There are the big ones, the middle size ones and the smaller ones. I found one set of three on the smaller side that I really liked. They harmonize with each other. But he realized they belonged to a bigger family of seven bowls which meant I couldn't get them unless I got all seven which cost about $4,000 bucks. Each bowl has a different sound, pitch or note. If you have three, you want them to go up in scale so they harmonize with one another. I don't have a clue about music but I know what sounds good to me, so that is what I was listening for. I will put two video's on this blog that Claude took of me, so you can see what I was doing to try to hear which ones sounded best to me. One of the bowls I ended up with is from the 17th century he says. Sounds very soothing and resonates beautifully. I like the three I got and I know I will be able to place them on people for healing purposes when I do my acutonics. He had big gongs too, different than the one we have in our entry. They are made in Sweeden he says. They were cool.
After that we stopped for a Starbucks then decided to go back toward San Francisco and actually cross the Golden Gate Bridge this time. So we headed south again and over the bridge. It was a really nice day so it was perfectly wonderful. On the other side we found our way to the Golden Gate Park. We headed for the Japanese Tea Gardens in the park and walked around for awhile. See some photos. By that time, we figured we should drive around the park some and ended up at the beach. We cruised around there and headed back into town. It was getting darker by then so we thought...should we eat dinner? Claude wasn't hungry, but I was so we thought, what kind of food other than sea food is popular in San Francisco. It dawned on us that it was Chinese Food. We drove by two places, both looked busy (a good sign) and so we found parking and went in. It was an authentic place, lots of aquariums of live lobster, huge shrimp, live fish and live crab all over. Everyone in there was chinese. Not one caucasian anywhere. Even the menu was in chinese with english sub titles. They were ordering some interesting looking things. It was fun to be in an authentic chinese restaurant. I carefully ordered caschew chicken and Claude engaged in conversation with the waiter, (not understanding barely a word) and ended up with Bok Chow and chicken. We liked it and were happy we went. We didn't get home till after 9:30 p.m. so it was a long day. Hope you like these photos and the videos. At this point I'm not sure what will end up on the blog today so it will be a surprise to even me.
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