San Francisco - Second Day

My meeting wouldn't start until 3 pm on that day. So, I decided to walk around and explore San Francisco eventhough I have been there in 2006 for the same conference. I started my morning with a cup of soy hot chocolate. My stomach has difficulty to digest lactose in milk, so, soy milk would be safer for me. Do you see the size of their donuts? Probably, it's hard to judge from the picture, but, It's huge. Of course I would not eat such high sugar food to ruin my healthy diet.

I thought of taking a public transport to Chinatown. While I was struggling to find out whether any bus will go to chinatown from union square, a lady came to me, and told me that I should walk further down for a bus to chinatown. After telling me the way, she asked for money. I should have probably given her a dollar, but I didn't. I was being very careful since I was travelling alone at such a big city where a lot of homeless people are around. I said sorry, and then walked away.

Then, I checked my google map. It seemed that chinatown is just about 15 minutes walking distance from union square. I decided to walk then.    

If I am not mistaken I only bought fortune cookies there. I remember that my dad likes it. In the states, if we go to any chinese restaurant, they will always give fortune cookies at the end of our meal. Somehow, we can only find this chinese culture in the US. Haha...    

From chinatown, I walked back to union square and walked around Westfield mall. There is a ghirardelli cafe. They serve coffee, hot chocolate, and ice cream. Unfortunately, I didn't get the chance to try their ice cream. But, of course I won't miss their hot chocolate. It was delicious!

In the afternoon, I was at the meeting, looking at poster presentations held on that day, and I met one of my ex colleagues/ex classmates from Iowa State University. We still recognize each other. She is a Srilankan girl, called Umai, and she looks great with her long hair. She said I looked younger now, hahaha, what a nice compliment. Or I guess it's because of the pressure that all graduate students may have, therefore we looked more stressful at that time.

I was planning to visit pier 39 in the evening after my meeting. But, it was really a coincident that I met a good friend (also used to be my colleague at ISU). I never expect that I could see here there. She is a taiwanese girl (Janine) who is now working at Germany. We hardly contact each other after I graduated. Then, she told me that she is meeting another friend of us, Manuela. We ended up having a Japanese food nearby. 

It's a "surprise day" for me!