Sunday Streets hits the Embarcadero March 10

ILLUSTRATION VIA SUNDAY STREETS

We love the ocean breezes of Sunday Streets [1] Great Highway, the jampacked activities of Sunday Streets Mission, the general feeling of being on the main thoroughfare of a neighborhood you don't usually hang out on with thousands of your city neighbors. Once again, the car-free family day is taking over the Embarcadero for its March 10 season opener.

More centrally located than the beach, more of a novelty than the at-times Mission version -- this could be a good one, and it's high time to re-acquaint yourself with the strip in these last days before America's Cup swoops in, anyway. Here's five ways to spend your SS Embarcadero:

- Chances are good that you'll spend most of your time at the Exploratorium On the Move fest [2]. They'll have live music going on all day -- the last set, El Radio Fantastique [3], goes on at 9pm -- which may end up playing a supporting role to the joys of aquatic cars [4], motorized Mission Pony [5] horses (see below), a mechanized Burning Man octopus [6], and the San Francisco Lowrider Council [7], among other Exploratorium offerings like cow eye and heart dissections. Eek! 

"Mom, Dad, you look foolish."

- Pay a visit to Capt'n Jack Spareribs [8]' noon, 1:20pm, and 2:40pm shows at Pier 39's "Sunday Streets Treasure Hunt" [9] -- pirate festivities like arrrr. 

This =/= Johnny Depp (Capt'n Jack Spareribs!)

- Check out the yoga, hip-hop classes, rock climbing wall, roller disco, and ditch-the-training-wheels lessons that Sunday Streets is orchestrating like Michael Tilson Thomas [10].  

- Lounge in the 60 degree weather. 

- Grab dinner and stick around to check out "Bay Lights", the Bay Bridge's ludicrously elaborate new light installation [11], which will be illuminated for the first time on March 5. 

Sunday Streets Embarcadero

March 10, 11am-4pm, free

Embarcadero between Fisherman's Wharf and Pier 52, SF

www.sundaystreetssf.com [12]