The Castro

Tuesday it was back to the Conference all day for me and Gina went exploring the city on her own. She spent most of the day in the Castro District -- Mecca for gays & lesbians. It was Gay Pride week so there was a lot of activity, but unfortunately the parade was going to happen on Saturday after we'd already gone back home.

Here's that humongous flag we saw way up Market Street on Sunday.

And the famous Castro Theater, built in 1920s for $300,000!



There are some rather funny business names...



Like most of San Francisco, it's got lots of hills...


and rainbow flags fly everywhere --even on tiny dogs.


Gina found these 2 cuties all dolled up for Pride Week.


About 6PM we met up with friends of ours who have a home here in Houston and one in SF. They have a business that requires them to split time between the two cities. They took us to a nice vegetarian restaurant, then went on the opera. Unfortunately we didn't have the camera with us. We did a little walking around Union Square afterwards and got dessert at Cheesecake Factory to go, eating it back in the hotel room. So ended day 3 of our San Francisco adventure.