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Recently People magazine had a page of photos of Suri
Cruise, fashion guru of the pre-school set, hitting the hot spots in Manhattan
with a stuffed giraffe as her constant escort (although he looks more like a deer to me.)
During the same week, my granddaughter Amalía, eight months old,
fashion guru of the pre-walking set, flew to San Francisco with her Mommy and Yiayia Joanie to hang out
with her Aunt Marina (known as "Tia Marina"), attend a book event presenting her
Mommy’s new novel “Other Waters” and take a quick tour of Wine Country and a hike through a
redwood forest.
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She didn’t have a stuffed animal as an escort, although a
teddy bear was seen atop her head at the Fairmont Hotel, and a certain mooing cow went AWOL before the
flight back, but Amalía still managed to flaunt the latest fashions while
partying like a rock star on the
Left Coast.
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She chose psychedelic clashing colors for brunching at the famous (since 1918) St. Francis Diner in the Mission District near Tia Marina's apartment.
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It was Cinco de Mayo, so there was a lot of celebrating (including dancing Skeletons) in the streets.
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Amalía admired the fabulous murals on nearly every wall in the Mission District.
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She took in the view from the roof of Tia Marina's building in the Mission.
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And in downtown San Francisco, on the roof of the buiding where Tia Marina works for BAR Architects, there was a giant heart.
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From the Fairmont Amalía walked with Yiayia Joanie to Chinatown. (It was a very steep hill.)
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One day her Mommy spoke at Book Passage in the Ferry Building, about her new novel "Other Waters." That's the Ferry Building in the background below.
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Afterward some friends stayed for dinner at a restaurant in the same building.
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That night there was a wine and cheese pajama party at the Fairmont, but Amalía, in her jammies, was all partied out.
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(Tomorrow--Partying through wine country and the Redwood forest.)
"Amalía Does San Francisco (Part One)"
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