Old Lady Grocery Carts

So the photo here is how we spent most of our 3-day venture out to San Francisco.

Josie proved to be an extremely good travelin' dog (other than a small incident pawing Jeremy's head in Salt Lake City).

The trip out was thankfully uneventful, with Jeremy driving the entire way! Gotta say, good luck was on our side.

So, now we're here, and have just finshed sifting through snowdrifts of boxes and packing paper. What a boring job.

One of the best things about moving to our neighborhood (Inner Sunset, two blocks south of Golden Gate Park in central San Francisco) is the fact that we don't have to drive to a grocery store. Isn't that odd? It's so engrained in our psyche to load up in the car, drive to the store, get 8 bags of groceries, and unload into the kitchen.

Here, there's a bunch of mini-grocery stores, so we have:

• our "produce" store - where you can get Honeycrisp apples for 99 cents a pound and mushrooms in bulk



• our "asian" store - for rice and meat, since our neighborhood is full of cute old Asian ladies, and they know where to shop



• our fabulous deli, manned by the friendliest guy ever with super-tasty (Kowalski's be damned!) gourmet meat and cheese



• our upscale market (well, maybe like Kowalski's) for everything else (including wine and beer on Sunday - hooray for CA liquor laws).

I was so excited to be able to walk (all are within 10 blocks) to all of these places that I went on a mission to find one of those old-lady fold-up metal grocery carts. Jeremy claims emasculation when using it, but I say - no way! It's useful!

The rest of the neighborhood is peppered with cafes, bars (we've been to most already) and useful stores like hardware, bank and post office. It's kind of like a small town within a big city.

Oh yeah, and we live at the bottom of a giant hill, and the only place to take Josie to pee (since she hasn't learned the delicate art of "curbing it" quite yet) is two blocks away up a steep, steep hill. Man, that sucks. But hopefully we'll have killer calves when we see everyone next!