Mission Dolores and Napa Valley

I guess these would be our last pictures from the San Fran trip. The small Mission house that you see in the first picture is the oldest building in San Francisco. It has survived many earthquakes, including the one in 1906 which leveled almost everything in the city. The Basilica was completed in 1918 and is actually much larger than the original building (there is a small museum in a backroom showing religious artifacts and pictures from throughout the history of the Mission). When we visited the Mission, we also spend some time walking around the small cemetery. While we were reading some of the inscriptions on the graves, two ladies tending the garden and trees offered us apples from one of the trees. They were delicious, sunripe and sweet.


Mission San Francisco de Asis (Mission Dolores)