San Francisco: Day 2

 

We started day 2 with a trolley ride to breakfast.

 

Breakfast at Buena Vista for the famous Irish Coffee and a crab omelet. Yum.

Then Adam got put in jail. Just kidding. Next stop, Alcatraz!

They have an audio tour that takes you around the island and tells stories about the prisoners who were there. The tour was really interesting and I learned a lot. What a spooky place. It's so odd because San Francisco looks so close and like you could get back really easily. I'm sure that was part of the awful part for the prisoners. 

After Alcatraz we went to Scoma's for lunch/dinner at the recommendation of my dad. It was really good with tons of fresh seafood. The restaurant is situated on a dock in the bay. Great setting, great food. Then we walked pretty much around all of San Francisco- Chinatown, the Castro, Fisherman's Wharf, Nob Hill, Russian Hill, Lombard Street and I'm sure many more.

Snack in Fisherman's Wharf.

 We ended the evening at Bourbon & Branch. What a fun bar! It's in a nondescript building with a doorbell that I was pretty sure was a residential walk up. A man dressed in a 1920s getup answered the door and asked us if we knew the password. Um no? Can we still come in? Really cool place with awesome drinks. I would recommend it to anyone. I didn't have a picture so this is from the website, but it doesn't do it justice.

San Francisco: Day 1

We arrived in San Francisco at about 12:00 so we of course went straight to lunch after checking in at our hotel. Traveling is about the food, right??? This trip kind of snuck up on us, so I researched on the 5 hour plane ride there. Nothing like the last minute. We started at Hog Island Oysters on the water. Holy amazingness. This was wonderful. We got oysters and chowder. Yum.

Next we had to work off our lunch, so we biked around San Francisco and across the Golden Gate bridge to Salsalito. It was very fun but HARD. I was not nearly prepared enough for how difficult it was and I was channeling "nervous Tom" and was afraid we were going to miss the last ferry back to San Fran. No way I could bike back over that thing!

Also, when I thought this would be such a good idea, I forgot I'm not a very good biker and AFRAID OF HEIGHTS! The Golden Gate bridge is HIGH. This was as close to the edge as I was getting. Looks like I was channeling my father yet again with the heights thing. Thanks Dad.

We made the ferry back after some crazy fast biking. I was so glad we did it once I knew we were going to make the ferry. The first day was long and we were tired, but very very fun. I really love spending quality time with my wonderful husband. People say you really learn a lot about people when you travel, and after all the trips Adam and I have been on, we know we are a great travel couple. Good thing because we both love it!

We had a casual dinner in Fisherman's Wharf and turned in early.

We're boarded and ready for San Francisco! I can hardly contain my excitement!



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Missing these folks today after about 10 days with them. Thankful I will see them again soon and that we have a family that travels.









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