On Monday we celebrated the end of summer break with a bang. First the new California Academy of Sciences building in Golden Gate Park. Although it was as expensive and completely mobbed as we had heard, we enjoyed the rainforest "building within a building", 3D bug movie, aquarium, penguins and of course, the famed albino alligator. But that was just the beginning: when the crowds become unbearable, we did drinks/dessert at Beach Chalet with a view of the ocean, grabbed a coffee from the famed Blue Bottle Coffee kiosk in Hayes Valley, then finished the day with an outside dinner at Jupiter in Berkeley.
