What to take Gwen's mom to do in SF
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Gwen wrote: >To properly freak her stuff ((she has a great sense of humor)) out I will need your adept assistance. Suggestions, please? Two words: Power Exchange. Just kidding. Musee Mechanique, happy hour at the Tonga Room, checking out the murals in Clarion Alley (maybe a whole Mission Mural Walk would be nice, if there's one available). Dinner at "No Name Sushi" on Church. If you really want to freak her little small-town Massachusettes mind, take her to the Audium ( www.audium.org/audium.html ). I loooooooove taking out-of-towners to the Audium. It's much less messy than lacing their food with acid and has almost the same effect. Eat sushi at the Japantown Mall, just because it's so weird (Entertaining my way, it helps if you have a mom who can eat sushi every day. Mom doesn't escape without paying for a meal at Ebisu, either.) You just don't get to see Japaneseness like that on the east coast. The Palace Of The Legion Of Honor has pipe organ concerts every weekend afternoon at 4 - little known fact, it has like 4500 organ pipes built into the walls of the building itself. The museum's worth going to any time, but when the pipe organ is fired up, it's magic. Take her out for a nightcap at the 10pm drag show at Aunt Charlie's. (133 Turk St.) Trust me on this one. If you're in the neighborhood and your mom is up for the exertion, the Filbert Steps on Telegraph Hill have beautiful gardens, and if you have a little luck, if you get up to Montgomery and walk a block to the Union steps you might get to see the wild parrots... I once caught Mark Bittner hanging out on his porch down there. If they're around, you'll hear the squawking for blocks. Plus up at the top there's Coit Tower, moms love Coit Tower. I forget when Chinese New Years is but that's also a draw. More pedestrian stuff: checking out the Tea Garden and Arboretum in GG Park, check out the sea lions (duh), visit Beatnikland (a stop at City Lights Books followed by a latte at Trieste.) I also second the motion for Alcatraz, it's a must-bring-the-parents-to, but see if they're running their night tours nowadays, I think they are doing them occasionally again. There's a lounge in the lobby of that hotel on Union Square, the one on the same side of the square as Borders & the Gold Dust Lounge, where you can sample high-class whiskey for like $10-$12/shot - not something I'd do every day, but my mom got a kick out of it before we went for a (relatively) cheap four-star dinner at Kuleto's up the street. Don't know if Kuleto's is still there. My mom also loved Spec's, Sam Woo's, the Exploratorium (& especially the weird architecture at the Palace of Fine Arts), bridge climbing with John Law, and checking out a blues band at The Saloon on Grant Ave. Of course, in some ways my mom is a little younger at heart than some people's are. She wanted to go back to Spec's again! She also wanted to go to the Cyberbuss Ball but we were too tired. Then after you've shown your folks all that, next time your folks want to visit, try doing what I do and saying, "Ma, I'm sick of playing host, pick some other nice place to go for vacation and I'll meet you there." - Mike , posted 01/21/06 |
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