More about Vacations

Vacations are so much fun, but getting back into your regular routine is not. By Thursday of my first full week back at work, I told Doug I'm ready for another vacation, he said me too. We had such a good time in San Francisco I thought I would post some more pictures.

This first photo is us at the top of the Mark Hopkins Intercontinental Hotel. There is a bar/restaurant at the top 19 stories up and it has 360 degree views of the city. It was pretty amazing, we had 4 drinks total, and two of them were beers and it was $50 bucks. CRAZY, but we enjoyed our time there.

We also made it to Pier 39 to see the Sea Lions. They were loud and smelly but fun to watch.

We walked down Lombard Street, then we walked back up. I don't think I would want to live there, there was a lot of people there snapping pictures. The gardens were pretty.

We also rode on the cable cars quite a bit. The photo above is from the Cable Car Museum, it was free and pretty cool. Those white circle things are party of the cable car system. It was pretty interesting.

We had a muni pass, so we use public transportation the whole, time. We rode the buses, cable cars, and the F-line. It was a fun experience.

We walked up to Coit Tower on the top of telegraph hill. That was a hike, but we got to see beautiful views of the city from the top.

The Victorian houses all through the city were really pretty. We drove by the row of houses that was on the opening of Full House.

We also went to the Academy of Sciences, inside of Golden Gate Park and spent about 3 hours there. Inside there were a bunch of neat exhibits and an aquarium. These are photos of the penguins they had there.

Of course we went to Alcatraz. It was awesome, one of the highlights of the trip for me. Pretty creepy. We went at night and got to see the solitary confinement cells and the hospital. They have an audio tour, that you get to listen too. We took a separate tour into the basement and up to the solitary confinement cells.

And we got to see Fisherman's Wharf, we ate sourdough bread bowls with clam chowder,YUM. We also saw Chinatown that was really cool and I did a lot of shopping there. We saw Union Square briefly, major department stores aren't our thing so we didn't hang out there much. North Beach was a pretty cool Italian neighborhood, we ate dinner there one night. There were so many restaurants, its making me hungry just thinking about it.