We started at Old Mill park where Zoe ran up and down the creek and tried to skip rocks. There was a french family there with a little girl named Zoe and it was funny to watch them cross paths.
We took a break at Noci, a slow food gelato shop which has amazing locally made ingredients. I had a Strauss Dairy sweet cream gelato with ghiradelli chocolate.
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| Image courtesy of 365 things to do - Marin |
Now that Zoe was stuffed and happy we managed a walk through the neighborhood, something we used to do all the time before she was born. I miss those walks as you always seem to discover something new. Today, we found a staircase path we'd never taken before.
It was lined with homes and at least two of them had chicken coops. We spotted this little wanderer on the staircase.
It was lined with homes and at least two of them had chicken coops. We spotted this little wanderer on the staircase.
And then Zoe found two blue eggs hiding inside a zen water fountain nearby. I suppose someone found them and laid them in the fountain to keep them cool.
A little girl came up the stairs calling "Zoe!". It was her dog. Another Zoe discovered; strange day indeed. We walked further up the hill and discovered another staircase alongside this amazing building.
After touring an incredible $2.8 million dollar house for the fun of it (gawd!), we had a great dinner at Tsukiji Sushi situated in an old house off the plaza. I didn't realize the head chef hails from the locally famous Sushi Ran restaurant. It was an awesome meal. Zoe dug into their house-cured Ikura.
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| Image courtesy of foodnut.com. |
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10 comments:
thanks, i enjoyed that walk
even though
i'd quite happily pootle about in the fog, too
sounds like a Lovely day!!!
Looks like such a lovely little town, full of hidden treasures!
I thought eggs were supposed to be kept warm!
fantastic trip! food, design, fiber, nature; perfect.
@Indiana - thirteen years of fog year round gets old but I can feel your pain of hot summers! Congrats on your new book btw!
@kitty-warm to hatch them, cool to eat them I suppose!
You want to know a funny thing, I read this on Monday and then went to Facebook, there were Mill Valley photos posted from the French family! My youngest went to preschool with them. The Bay Area is so small sometimes.
@Sonya, no way! That is so wild! And the mom was taking tons of photos, I figured they were tourists. That's one of the things I love about SF, it's so small in some ways.
love this post even more reading it the second time around.
wish we could adventure there with you
We love this lovely post! Thank you Kathryn. We have posted it on our FB page at http://facebook.com/Enjoymillvalley
Love, Mill Valley
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