Aside from being a little chilly, we've had a great few days in San Fran. We've done a lot of exploring, covering a lot of ground across the city. Perhaps a little more than we intended thanks to our combined lack of navigational ability, and the app on Shaun's phone that gives you directions to go everywhere the long way!
Oddly enough I also think I'm suffering jet-lag, and perhaps post- the busiest six months of my life -lag. It doesn't get dark until about 9pm, which is really throwing me off. The last couple of days seem to have gone really fast - I look at my watch thinking it feels like about 1pm and it's really 4pm already!
Anyway, we've checked out the America's cup village - no racing was actually on when we were down there, but never mind. We saw Oracle out on the water though, and boy do they move quickly!
We did what most tourists do in SF and checked out the fanfare Pier 39, had some delicious clam chowder, walked for miles around Golden Gate Park, and checked out the funky hippy area at Haight Ashbury.
Yesterday we hired bikes down at Fisherman's Wharf and biked over the Golden Gate bridge to Sausilito, then all the way around to Tiburon and caught the Ferry back (about 28km all up). It was a great day, but I was SO tired at the end of it, and now my backside really hurts!
We finished our bike ride with a celebratory hot chocolate at Ghirardeli Square... We also discovered that you get free chocolate each time you walk into the store... naturally we went to each store in the square a couple of times...
We then waited in the line for the cable car home for about 30 minutes, but a nice lady gave us her tickets that she wasn't going to use, so it was worth the wait!
Today we just did more walking around and stocked up on a few things for the rest of our trip...
Tomorrow we pick up our Escape van and head off to Yosemtie National Park for a week. Wish us luck driving on the other side of the road (hopefully we'll make it there alive, and still married!).
Oh, and I also now have a taste for root beer. Delicious!
C&S xx
san fran :) sounds marvelous! xx
ReplyDeleteUm, what taste does root beer have?
ReplyDeleteIt's kind of like a cherry cola I guess, but somehow not quite as sweet as regular coke.
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