October 1 - San Francisco Chinatown

It was the Sunday before the Oracle Conference. We'd flown in and had a harrowing taxi ride from the Airport. We were too early to check into our room, but the hotel graciously stored our luggage so that we could take in some of the sights near the hotel.

We were a short walk from Chinatown, so this seemed to be a good place to visit. I took a few photos and movies there.



San Francisco's Chinatown is very commercialized and tourist oriented, which was fine with Edith and Austin.



You never knew what you'd see at the next storefront.

There was entertainment on the street, first the quiet kind:

And then the much louder kind:

Some onlookers were less interested than others:



We returned to our hotel and checked in. For the next three days, I'd be attending the Oracle Open World convention while Edith and Austin visited all the tourist sites. They didn't take very many photos of their activities, so the next post takes up on the day they went back to Vancouver and I had my first day off for birding and other activities.