My belated birthday weekend in San Francisco was really wonderful. This was my third time in the Bay Area and on each visit I peel away another layer of this great city. Highlights included checking out the shopping district Hayes Valley and the beautiful new Steven Alan store there. The very Parisienne Tartine bakery, sipping Blue Bottle Coffee, seeing FELA at the Curran theater and the mouthwatering burger at Heirloom Cafe.  American Airlines flies into the new and gorgeous Terminal 2 at SFO which is so cool I actually wanted to arrive at the airport two hours early.