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Sunshine & chocolate—this was an excellent day<\/h6>\nIn the early summer, I went to San Francisco, California for a conference, and Raymond was thrilled when I asked him to tag along on my trip. While there I was pretty busy with the conference, but we did manage to fit in some sightseeing.<\/p>\n
The weather was quite lovely during our visit, so during a free afternoon, Raymond and I went on a long walk to soak in the sunshine and the breeze. We enjoyed wandering about, but we did have a destination in mind: Ghirardelli Square. Raymond and I both LOVE chocolate, so we knew we had to go there \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
Sunshine & chocolate—this was an excellent day<\/h6>\nAfter enjoying our ice cream, Raymond and I ambled down a pier where we gazed out at the sea and had our hair and fur tousled by the occasionally wild breeze from the Bay.<\/p>\n While we were relaxing on the pier, I pointed to an island out in the Bay and informed Raymond that it was Alcatraz Island, which is where folks who were permanently on the Naughty List used to go.<\/p>\n As the sun started to set, Raymond and I decided to make our way over to Fisherman’s Wharf. Raymond and I are both vegetarians, so we weren’t interested in buying or eating any seafood, but we still wanted to look around. This was an excellent decision because while walking around, our noses came across the fantastic smell of sourdough from Boudin Bakery. As we strolled back to the hotel, we shared an amazingly fresh sourdough roll. It was a tasty finish to our nice afternoon.<\/p>\n In the early summer, I went to San Francisco, California for a conference, and Raymond was thrilled when I asked him to tag along on my trip. While there I was pretty busy with the conference, but we did manage to fit in some sightseeing. The weather was quite lovely during our visit, so during…Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5794,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-raymond"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northpole.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northpole.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northpole.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northpole.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northpole.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5786"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.northpole.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9336,"href":"https:\/\/www.northpole.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5786\/revisions\/9336"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northpole.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northpole.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northpole.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northpole.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nAs soon as we walked in the door at the Ghirardelli shop, an employee handed us a piece of chocolate. Now that’s<\/i> customer service \ud83d\ude09 Since that wasn’t enough chocolate for us, Raymond and I shared a homemade chocolate-dipped waffle cone filled with Ghirardelli chocolate ice cream. In a word: YUM! It was absolutely decadent and delicious. Raymond gave it four hooves up.<\/p>\n![\"Raymond](\"http:\/\/www.northpole.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/sfo2.jpg\")
A perfectly decadent and delicious treat<\/h6>\n![\"Raymond](\"http:\/\/www.northpole.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/sfo3.jpg\")
Enjoying the breeze from the Bay<\/h6>\n![\"Raymond](\"http:\/\/www.northpole.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/sfo4.jpg\")
Raymond looking out at Alcatraz<\/h6>\n![\"Raymond](\"http:\/\/www.northpole.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/sfo5.jpg\")
No fish, please, but we’ll take some sourdough!<\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"