I didn’t expect my sister to deliver her baby exactly on her due date.

I kept hearing that the first time a woman gives birth, she’ll usually do it a week or two after the doctor-codified due date. Because science isn’t that good yet. But guess what – in this case, the medical field got an A+ in predictability!

I’m already just over 6 months into my pregnancy, and I’m starting to feel big. Not in a bad way, it’s still rather novel to have to rock back and forth to get out of bed, and to have a firmer belly than I ever did before in my life.

I’ve heard a bit about the before-the-baby’s-born vacation, a last hurrah to get out with your partner before your life is taken over by your sweet spawn. Mike and I decided on a last-minute weekend retreat to San Francisco.

The trip was a warm and foggy lineup of walks up and down hills. I had a few flashbacks to a trip 6 years earlier, where we had also stayed at the San Remo hotel and munched on salmon-cream cheese-caper-topped bagels at Cafe Sapore. But more than anything, this was a trip to get great Italian food! The kind of Italian food with sauces that make you shake your knees with the first taste and make your breath smell like garlic when you wake up the next day. We weren’t disappointed!

Here is the dessert highlight of the trip – Torta della Nonna with Meyer Lemon Zabaglione.

As you can see, it was so tempting that before Mike could remind me to take a photo I just had to have a taste. It wasn’t as dry as I thought it would be, and the lemon cream was so tart and refreshing. Mixed with the fresh whipped cream, it was perfect. From Calzone’s on Columbus Ave in San Francisco.