Francisco

Kurt Adler San Francisco Glass, Christmas Ornament
$15.00
This year my family was scattered all over the place at Christmas, so to bring them a little closer to home, I purchased this and other ornaments from the Kurt Adler Glass Cityscape collection to represent where they were: my daughter in San Francisco, my son in Los Angeles, my dear friend in New York City. The ornaments are beautifully designed and executed and each time I saw them on my tree, I felt that they were celebrating Christmas with me.

KNEE TO THE GROIN
$18.98
This guy is an awesome comedian; my sister introduced me to his material a couple weeks ago, and i was in so much pain from laughing nonstop. I agree with some of the other reviews on here, since I saw his video clips on youtube, and it does make a difference to see his expressions as he does his stuff, so that's why i put 4 out of 5. That, and his bit on mexican music is hilarious, or any bit where he makes his trumpet sound effects. If you like his stuff, then yeah, get a dvd of him live. The cd would be a good tie-over until you get tickets to see him in person. :P

Moleskine City Notebook San Francisco
$17.95
I bought this notebook because I liked the idea of not having to spread out a map and have it flap in the breeze and thought it would be nice to have my map and journal together as a single unit.

While the other components of the San Francisco City Notebook are as expected (Yes, the gray print is hard to read - what was the designer thinking?!), the maps are the worst I've seen for this city. Not only are they incomplete, the Muni routes aren't shown on the street maps which have only a few major stations and the cable car routes. This inconveniently requires one to flip from the Muni pages to the pages with the street maps. It isn't easy to go down the index and then locate the page with the right street map to find the nearest station which, in fact, while being the nearest station according to the map, may not be the nearest Muni stop in real life. Reading the fine print, I discovered that the street maps are copyrighted by Lonely Planet Publications in 2006 while the Muni Metro maps are copyrighted by the City and County of San Francisco in 2003. I don't take issue with the BART map; only with the street and Muni maps because the street maps should have the complete Muni routes on them to maximize convenience and usefulness like other maps for San Francisco that I've seen.

As a result, the City Notebook for San Francisco leaves me still needing a separate map when I was expecting to be able to carry only a single unit.

San Francisco
$59.88
i was giving this as a gift. less than 24 hours after making the purchase i found out the hostess already gets this, so i tried to stop this purchase and get another subscription from amazon, but they wouldn't allow it.