Ice Skating in San Francisco?!

Yes, this does sound oxymoronic, but it is possible! I had heard word of ice skating in the city last year, but timing never worked out for us to go. So a few weeks ago when I saw that our calendar was pretty open for a few weekends, we set aside a Saturday to go ice skating in Union Square. Also inspired by this article, I decided to turn it into a Christmas Date Night!

We started the night with dinner and vino at First Crush. We took a little walk through Union Square after dinner to check things out.

Love palm trees with Christmas lights!

 

We still had some time before our reservation for ice skating (yes, it's small and busy, so you have to book ahead online!) so we stopped at one of the places listed in the article I mentioned. We enjoyed holiday drinks at the Starlight Room, which is on the 21st floor of the Sir Francis Drake Hotel. We had a great view of the city, overlooking Union Square and the skating rink we would be visiting shortly!


Next it was time for ice skating! So fun! And I think it's perfectly wonderful to be ice skating under palm trees covered with Christmas lights!


Photo bomb by one of the ice helpers.




Before ending our night we stopped at Jasper's Corner Tap and Kitchen, walked through the beautifully decorated Westin St. Francis Hotel, and the Burritt Room inside the Mystic Hotel. I was amazed by all the beautiful decorations indoors and out! San Francisco is truly beautiful this time of  year, and no, I don't miss the snow! This is exactly my kind of winter!

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