Foggy Saturday

On Saturday AM, we all woke up super late - even Evie. We never sleep until 10am but we did and it was great. After breakfast, Evie and I drove Erik up to Aquatic Park in Fisherman's Wharf so he could take a swim. He has been swimming in the bay a few times per week! While he swam, we dropped some stuff off at our storage unit. The traffic was insane in the city yesterday but we made it back in about 40 min to pick Erik up. Mind you that is 40 min to go about 3 miles! Anyway....

After having lunch at home, we got in the car and took Evie to Lake Merced for a walk.

Lake Merced is down near Ocean Beach and next to Harding Golf Course. There were some walkways to go into the lake so Evie was able to wade in the water.





On Saturday night, we went to Mission Beach Cafe for dinner. I just found this other new, awesome site called Blackboard Eats. You click the daily offer, receive a code, and bring it with you to the restaurant for 30% off. Nothing to purchase, like Groupon. It's great. We've been wanting to go to this restaurant for awhile so we decided this would be our 'new restaurant of the month' to try! We used the 30% off coupon from Blackboard Eats and everyone near us was using their code too!


This restaurant is small and LOUD. You are sitting very close to other people and it's hard to hear the person you are with.


The food was delicious!! I had the eggplant & ravioli which was three big ravioli with a lot of veggies like mushrooms, tomatoes, & corn on top. The sauce that accompanied it was amazing.


Erik had the salmon which was ok but I didn't love it.

The staff was really busy. It took a few minutes to get water then another 5 min for the server to come and say hello/get our drink order. We ordered an appetizer however, either the server or the kitchen forgot to bring out our appetizer so we went right to eating our entree.

The server apologized and brought us some Truffle Fries, on the house, to make up for it - which was awesome!

We also finished our dinner with dessert - I had the peach pie and Erik had the chocolate pie. Both were delish!! We walked out of there very full.

I would probably come back here for dinner but probably not on a Saturday night. It was way too crowded & loud to fully enjoy our meal.

Fun Fact about Mission Beach Cafe is that Top Chef contestant, Ryan Scott, used to be the Executive Chef there!


After dinner, we went to the Monk's Kettle for a drink. They have over 150 beers available from all over the world.


They had a ton of beers on tap and in bottles. We were surprised that some of the beers were SO expensive - some were near $30 for a 12oz beer! It's nice to drink imports but not at that price! So, we each had one drink & went home since we were so full.

Fun day & night together!!