Yesterday was a fantastic day! We ended up having our favorite food in San Francisco…Dim Sum with Dad and Helen!!! Yummy! If any of you don’t know what Dim Sum is….it’s a style of Chinese cuisine where they come out and you select various small plates of food which might include sticky rice, steamed pork buns, steamed scallop dumplings, spinach and shrimp dumplings, egg rolls, flat egg noodles stuffed with pork and veggies….and the list goes on! If you have never had Dim Sum…you are missing out on one of life’s greatest culinary delights! So, after consuming more than we probably should, we headed over to Golden Gate Park to the California Academy of Sciences and spent about 2 hours completely enthralled. I don’t know what was more fascinating….the 4-story rainforest or the aquarium! I loved the rainforest….it was filled with interesting flora and fauna, gorgeous butterflies, parrots, and various tree frogs and lizards. A butterfly landed on my pinkie finger as I was taking a photo of another butterfly! It was heavenly. The aquarium was amazing too! You really have to see this place. We headed over to the Japanese Tea Garden afterwards. I had never visited this garden while growing up in SF, but I’m glad I was finally able to see it now since I have a greater appreciation for gardening and landscaping. We checked out the gift shop after perusing the lush gardens and we met Helen’s brother…Uncle Benh! I hadn’t seen him in decades! He volunteers at this gift shop, as well as, the wonderful bakery in Japantown where they sell mochi goshi (not sure of correct spelling). After an epic day in Golden Gate Park, we ended the evening at Bella’s…a nice Italian restaurant fairly close to where my Dad and Helen live, in the Richmond District. Jon got his favorite dish, gnocci, while I opted for my Dad’s recommendation, the lobster ravioli. What a perfect day! Could it get any better than this?