So it's Christmas Eve now and we have no plans at all for today, Jane seems to be getting worse so it's probably going to be best if she just has a short walk for some fresh air then get some sleep. I don't really fancy doing too much myself today either. We had a bit of a walk around then headed up to the Cako cupcake shop, apparently, they have the best cupcakes in town and they're not wrong. We only got a couple of chocolate ones to try, at $3.50 each they're not cheap but it was something we had to try out, they even put them in a little plastic holder inside the bag so they don't get squashed together. We had them later on in the evening and they tasted lovely, so light and fluffy.
Jane came back on her own and I had a walk up to Union Square to take some photographs, you wouldn't believe how many people were round there doing the last minute Christmas shopping, you could hardly move there was that many people about. The queue to get on the ice rink was massive now not that I was going risk it at my age. It was all starting to get to busy out around here now so I cut through the side streets to go and have a look at the Transamerica Pyramid which you can see from any high point around the city but I wanted to stand at the bottom of it and look up. There's no public observation deck here anymore sadly but standing next to it is impressive. As this place is located in the financial district plus it being Christmas Eve there was hardly anybody around here so I thought I'd drop into Murphy's pub that was only a short walk away. It was around 4:30 now and most of the shops that were around was starting to close so the pub seemed the best option, there was only about four other people sat in their drinking but people kept on coming in asking if they were doing food and were surprised when told the kitchen was closed and so would be the pub at six. I stuck it out to the bitter end along with the four others in there until six o'clock then walked it back along Market Street for a bit till I got fed up and caught the bus the rest of the way back. By now it was around seven o'clock and most places were closed apart from the Apple shop, I don't think they ever close, so had another look in there then back to the hotel to see how Jane was. And that was our Christmas Eve.
