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10.04.2004

Outlet shopping, etc

I am not much of a clothes, shoes and accessory shopper. I don't know, I think I just don't have the patience to go through the racks to look for something I'd like. That posed as a predicament for me as I've promised FuNkYmOmMa's cousin, who was visiting the bay area, a trip to the outlet shops before she goes back home to Manila. I am good at sightseeing but not shopping!

So I resorted to the 'bahala na' syndrome and hubby gave me the directions and the information I needed so I can bring Ate Marie outlet shopping. I took half the day off on Monday immediately after we returned from LA (haha), anything to be away from work is fun for me.

She mentioned something about a Coach outlet so we decided to go to Petaluma instead of the Napa outlet. I actually enjoyed shopping in the stores we visited and even ended up buying some items of my own. I think I'd like to go back and do some more later on. Maybe all it takes are the nice discounts and outlet prices for me to start enjoying this kind of shopping for once.

We finished shopping quite early and so I was determined to take her to the downtown area so she can ride the cable car. As they say, no person can be called a tourist in SF if they've not caught a ride on our cable car. I think I've never seen a day that the queue for this ride has gone short even on a Monday-- and on both ends! We planned to eat at the Cheesecake factory for dinner. The best way was to ride it up the hill on Powell, get off on California St--but in our case, Pine St (my mistake)--and catch the next trolley back to where we started. If we've taken the trip down to Girardhelli square and back, we'd have skipped dinner all together that night.

Dinner was great, we just ordered a number of appetizers as Ate Marie has a very small appetite and Cheesecake factory serves an enormous heap of food. I don't know why I wasn't too hungry either, I only had coffee from Starbucks since breakfast.

I had much fun with Ate Marie. I didn't even feel tired until I'd hit the sack. I hope the next time it will be Girlie and Angie who will come visit me here--that will be double the fun!

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