Well, here we are and it's Tuesday and we've shopped ourselves silly already - well two out of three of us have just about single-handedly fixed the US economy.  Shoes; jackets; shoes; coats; 'Not Your Daughter's Jeans'; did I mention shoes?!  There's nothing quite like a bit of retail therapy.

We walked and walked and walked yesterday, somewhere between 10-13 km we reckon trying to find the Josef Seibel boots I've been after since before we left Australia - no success either :( It turns out we could have taken our #71 bus and got there in about ten minutes.  Nevertheless, we did work our way through several areas we were keen to 'walk' like Nob Hill, Russian Hill, Japantown, and Chinatown and thankfully we found a lovely café and had a yummy lunch of salads and paella - a bonus and well deserved!

Mary found details of a coat shop online and we navigated our way there to make a trolley-load of purchases - down and feather jackets and more shoes! We struggled home with our packages; it was a bigger struggle for some!

Today we took things at a slower pace - we caught our #71 into town and with some advice and quick driving from our bus driver (in order that we could get in front of the streetcar we needed to catch), we made a quick skip over on to a streetcar (not named 'Desire') to the Embarcadero and the ferry terminal to take a ferry to Sausalito.  And what a gorgeous little town it is, nestled into the side of a mountain across the bay ... and guess what ... it's full of gorgeous little boutiques ... and we helped the economy there too with cashmere jumper purchases, ready for the cold of New York next weekend.

Another night in tonight with our Mare doing the cooking - Sandy and I are the quality control supervisors - sometimes referred to at "the kitchen bi#ches".  LOL!

We'll pick up the hire car in the morning, and possibly head north to the Sonoma Valley and check out some of the Californian wines and maybe go via Stinson's Beach and Muir Woods.  More to come!

Speak no evil, hear no evil, see no evil, and of course do no evil!

Two bag ladies returning from a big day of shopping!