Tuesday, March 8, 2011

San Francisco

I'd never been to Northern California or San Francisco so we decided to spend a couple of days doing the touristy stuff so that I could experience everything...next time we can devote the majority of our time to just hanging out with Jeff and Linda as I won't want to do and see everything possible.

We headed out pretty early - I believe it was about 6 AM one day to make the two hour drive down to San Francisco. The traffic wasn't as bad as we were expecting so we ended up getting down to Pier 39/Fisherman's Wharf before any of the shops were open and were one of the only people walking around. It was great. We actually went down and were checking out the sea-lions. If you can believe it, we were one of five people total that were there. Besides the overwhelming fishy smell, it was good times.


Ha - we made our way down to Lombard Street (the curviest street in the world) where we found that absolutely NO ONE was driving down it, but instead walking in and around in order to take pictures. Our little car was a champ. We drove right down it with no problem at all while all these asian tourists gasped and snapped photos. Great. Unfortunately, because we didn't take the time to physically get out of the car and climb all the way up it - we only have pictures of us coming down the hill. Classic. (PS...All the people you can see in the distance are taking pics of us. OH and look at the city/houses in the distance. Amazing. I love the houses here).


Of course we had to go across the bridge, pay the ridiculous toll and take pictures in front of the Golden Gate Bridge. (I was photo-bombed by this old guy).



We decided to hang around in the wharf while we waited for our sail time to alcatraz. There were some pretty good photo ops. :)






Ghiradelli Square






And this picture was taken especially for Brent. The man can (and will) eat mustard on anything and everything.




Coming up next: Alcatraz, Jelly Belly Factory, Apple Hill

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