San Francisco Trip Recap, Saturday 10/21/2006, Part 1

Saturday morning we all got up early and had breakfast at Lori's Diner. This is a 50s-style diner with three locations in Union Square. The food was good (I had french toast-yum!) but pricey as are most things in San Francisco. We forgot Larsson didn't like freshly-squeezed orange juice and had to order him cran juice again.

Then we headed over to the Nike Expotique in the actual square part of Union Square. Big races like these usually have Expos, held in big places like convention centers, with lots of different vendors and free stuff.

Nike set up a series of tents in Union Square with different slogans like Feel Like a Girl (free manicures, etc.), Run Like Girl (gait analysis on a treadmill, pace calculators, free bottles of water, free postcards, sneaker testing, free Luna bars and Luna lip balm) and Shop Like a Girl (you can guess what was in there.) My foot hurt so I didn't want gait analysis, but I did get some free water and a postcard that I mailed to myself as a memento of the race. I didn't think the Expotique was terrible but it wasn't very exciting either. I guess I'll have to do another race to get the real Expo experience.

After the Expotique, Braman and the kids and I parted company. I needed to meet my group from Team In Training at 11:15 at their hotel so that we could all walk over to the Pasta Party together and Braman and Larsson and Nora were eager to start doing something fun.

Since it was only about 10:15, I went into Niketown by myself to check things out and the family headed over to the California Academy of Sciences to see fish and dinosaurs and other fun things.

Before they left, though, I made Braman take some pictures for the blog.