Most of day four was spent on a couch at our hostel, getting some design work done. I escaped just in time to see clouds covering up the sun and realize that the Asian Art Museum was free the previous Sunday instead of Tuesday. Whoops. We trudged back to the hostel¹ and discovered that the Oscar-nominated shorts² were playing just a short walk away at the Lumiere Theatre.³ After watching the live-action shorts, we took the bus to Ghirardelli Square, bought a large back of assorted chocolate squares to split, and then finished the day at our favorite Indian restaurant.⁴

1. Past a grouchy-looking prostitute and a gas station billboard with a J.D. Salinger quotation. [↩]
2. Watch all of them online here! [↩]
3. I was pleasantly surprised by this movie theater. It was small and a little shabby, but had exactly the kind of patrons I love to watch movies with. And is right across from a great thrift store. [↩]
4. It’s half Indian restaurant, half Irish pub, and the combination is exactly as weird as you’d expect it to be. [↩]