Ah! Yes, more pictures from San Francisco...

After the first few days we had in the city, we did take it easy on Thursday. We woke up late and spent most of the afternoon shopping around downtown and in Chinatown (largest in North America, second is Vancouver). From Chinatown, we walked to North Beach that is not really a beach, but still pretty cool. That's where you find Little Italy and Washington Square. From there, we started walking up, way up, to the top of Telegraph Hill where we fount the Coit Tower. The tower was baptized as such following Lillie Coit's generous donation to the city of San Francisco in the early 1900s. The tower also has impressive murals on its first floor, murals that were showing the influence of Diego Rivera at the time. For those of you who do not know the story of Rivera and Frida Khalo, I strongly recommend renting the movie Frida. You'll love it, I know I did.

We then ended our day by visiting the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, where we found an eclectic collection. One of the exhibitions was called Pop! From San Francisco Collections. You can imagine that we saw lots of Andy Warhol, Lichtenstein, Oldenburg. I was also surprised to see a few paintings by Friday Khalo and Diego Rivera, including the one she painted from the two of them.


Coit Tower on Telegraph Hill