San Francisco

So I just realised that my posts about San Francisco have disappeared. So I'll just give a quick run down.

There was a major storm in San Francisco on Thursday night so our flight on Friday was delayed a few hours, it's always fun to find out about flight delays when you arrive at the airport i could have stayed at the Vegas outlet mall for a few more hours!

Anyway we got to the hotel about 11pm and went straight to bed we were exhausted.

Saturday
We woke up late on Saturday missed breakfast as it finished at 9am. We bought tickets for the hop on hop off bus and went down to fisherman's wharf.  This place is amazing. Heaps of shops and restaurants and arcades. There's a colony of sea lions that sun themselves right by the pier.
We had lunch at Bubba Gump Shrimp Co which was really good, the restaurant is themed with all Forrest Gump memorabilia. 
After lunch we jumped back on the bus and went over the Golden Gate Bridge. There was a protest in town regarding the police misuse of power so this threw a spanner in the works for our tour around town.  But anyway we had a few minutes to take photos at Golden Gate park, it was freezing!  Finally got some chowder for dinner.
Sunday
Missed breakfast again.... we walked up lombard st to the crookedest street in the world, it was so steep I thought I would die but we got there and it was worth the hike, the view was amazing. (This was when Reilly and I started to come down with the flu). At the top of lombard st we hopped on a cable car and headed down to union square to go shopping and have lunch. We stocked up on cough syrup and panadol and did some Christmas shopping.  We had some delicious chinese food for dinner too.

Monday -Alcatraz
This was one of the things we were most looking forward to. Unfortunately Reilly and I were so sick and it was raining and miserable but thems the breaks... we got the ferry over to the island and began the tour. We were given headphones and a audio player and set off on our audio guided tour. It was eeiry and creepy but really interesting. It would have been a pretty miserable existance living in there...

Tuesday
I was feeling pretty sick and sorry for myself on Tuesday. Reilly had recovered but Hayden came down with it too and slept all day. Reilly and I got a bus down to chinatown for lunch and to do some shopping.  San Francisco has the biggest chinese community outside of Asai. There were markets everywhere selling all sorts of stinky herbs and spices and weird looking vegetables.
We got  really tasty pizza delivered for dinner which was nice cause i didn't want to leave the warm hotel room.
Our flight to Seattle was at stupid am on Wednesday so we decided to have an early night.