San Francisco!!

So Hollie says its my turn to write on the blog about our trip to San Francisco. Last week Hollie and I got on a plane to head out to the wonderful place of San Francisco! We needed a good vacation cause we didn't go on one for our anniversary because we thought it would be good to wait until it was warm and now it is warm. We also wanted to see my buddy Brett West, who is going to school at Pacific and doing an internship in Oakland. So since we got engaged in San Francisco we decided to go there again.Our plane was delayed almost two hours that night, but at least I had a good hat. We were supposed to leave at 8:55, we didn't take off until 10:30. We arrived in San Francisco at 12:00 midnight. The last subway for Oakland leaves at 11:50pm so we missed it by 10 minutes. Brett had to drive 45 minutes to come get us. We didn't get to his house until almost 2. We were pretty tired. The next morning we woke up and rode BART (the subway) back to San Francisco. Brett had to work so he got off at his stop and we rode on into the city. We got off at Powell street and walked over a giant hill and down to the wharf. It was fun to walk and go through all the little shops. We hadn't eaten breakfast so we could have an early lunch of clam chowder and crab.


We couldn't make it all the way to the wharf without stopping in the little Italian bakery on the side of the road for a delicious raspberry and cream cheese filled twisted ring of deliciousness.


Then we made it to the wharf for some clam chowder in a bread bowl.

This is the view from the place we ate chowder and crab.


These little guys were hanging out on the wharf. They were actually alive and crawling around. At least when we left. They probably became someone's lunch later.



We walked around the shops and stuff and hung out until about 2Brett met us at In-N-Out Burger for lunch. Then we walked to Ghirardelli square for some ice cream. That was some of the best ice cream ever until I spilled my float before I had even taken two bites of ice cream. We decided to go to Golden Gate Park. It was pretty exciting for Hollie, she saw her first drug deal. She felt nervous the rest of the time we were in that area but that park is huge and it got better as we walked on. It was getting close to dinner time so we got back on a bus and rode all the way back downtown and ate at the Stinking Rose. Man, that place is awesome!! The prime rib is to die for.

Saturday we went to Santa Cruz to hit the beach. We went to Capitola Beach. We decided to bury Hollie in the sand.

We didn't have a shovel, so we used my Russian Military-grade Flip Flops.

The flip flops worked.

On the way back, we drove up the Pacific Coast Highway and stopped at a lighthouse. It was pretty cool.

This is Hollie hanging off the Western edge of the country. (Excluding Hawaii or Alaska or any other part of the US that might be further to the West)

The next day we stopped by the Oakland temple. Its a stone's throw away from Brett's house. Then we went into town again.

We had lunch at the "Full House park" aka Alamo Square.

If you look real hard, you can almost see Uncle Jesse in the background.

We also went to the Japanese Tea Gardens

The Gardens were beautiful and I have decided I should put a Japanese Tea Garden in my backyard. Now I just need to get a backyard.

Then we headed over to the Golden Gate Bridge

After that, we were pretty much out of time. Brett dropped us off at a subway station and sent us on our way. We rode the subway out to the airport and when we got there, the conductor said go to the right for international flights and go left to get on the airport tram for "most" domestic flights. So I seemed to remember flying in to the international terminal, so I suggested we go that way, but Hollie was complaining that we were flying domestically so we should get on the tram, so we were almost to the international terminal and turned around and walked back to the tram and rode it all the way around back to the international terminal. For anyone that might fly Jet Blue into SFO, keep in mind that even domestic flights are in the international terminal. I guess that is why the conductor said, "most" domestic flights. :) We made it though and had a pretty normal flight home.

It was great to visit the places we saw when we got engaged and to spend some time with a good friend we don't see often enough. We had a blast and wish we could do it more often.