The day after Shauna and Andrew's Wedding we stayed in CA an extra day and took the BART rail across the bay over to San Fran! It was a great day!
Daddy and Becca at the BART station.
Checking out the map. Looked and felt very European to me. I'm not used to US cities having transport like this!
When we got to San Fran just a short walk from the BART station down Market street was the turn around start to the traditional streetcars. These things are awesome, and such a HUGE part of San Fran. Did you know the one of the only reason they were able to settle San Fran the way they did were these cars? It is so hilly even horse and buggy couldn't handle it, and certainly not the first cars. Public transport like this was necisarry!
Us with the Street car. We had to wait FOREVER, but there were so many people there that day that there would have been no room to load on later down the line. We kept having to yell "full" at the people at other stops.
Finally got a seat! It was nuts, but worth it!
Turn the corner and bam! View of the bay! so awesome! That is "The Rock" out there.
I'm glad we got this shot when we got off the street car cause our camera battery died by the end of the night! So we didn't get pics of it later when we actually went up to Ghirardelli Square and got ice cream. Mmmm it was SO good!
There she be folks! The golden gate bridge! It is amazing that I have been a California Girl all my life and never been here!
Cool old ship!
Okay, so this is us with the bridge, you can't see it very well, cause we weren't very close but it is there to the right of the pic.
Another shot. It was never not partially covered in clouds that day.
Becca and Fisherman's Wharf!
Mmmm food! We got this great view of the Wharf.
We shared a half of a local dungenes crab for an appetizer. Mmmmm.
Becca had spaghetti, Tyson had local fish pan fried...
And I got Halibut covered in this yummy mushroom and tomato cream sauce!
Then we walkd the wharf down to pier 39. At Boudin's sourdough they were makeing these SUPER cute sourdough sea turtles! 
On the peir they have these platforms just for the Sea Lions! It was awesome to see so many, but they were stinky!
Becca wouldn't look at the camera.
Close up.
Close of up Alcatraz. It really is pretty close to shore. Standing on the pier looking at it I understood how prisoners would stand on the rock and think, I can swim that....in freezing shark infested waters...
Tyson with Alcatraz...kinda looks like her belongs there huh?
Becca looking out at the water.
View of the bridge from the end of Pier 39
Then on the pier we saw this fun act... Captain Jack Spareribs. He was actually really funny.
Pier 39 Carousel tokens.
Becca wanted to up to the second level and ride a dolphin. How often do you see a two story merry go round?
This is at the start of pier 39. Interesting huh...
On the peir we grabbed this small bag of fresh donuts. Wow they were good. 
Then we continued onto Boudin's again to buy some sourdough...look at all that yummy yummy sourdough in the background! 
Mmmm we couldn't help but to just rip some chunks off there! We took the rest with us for snacking the rest of the evening.
Then we went into the Wax museum. It was probably a bit over priced, but it was interesting.
Tyson with the infamous 3 from WWII...seeing Hitler was pretty creepy actually.
The last supper...not something I expected to see...but it was cool to see it in 3D.
Steve Irwin and Rambo...now that's a pair!
I had to get this cool shot of this In-n-Out. It was actually just this little corner so the place is shaped like a triangle and in the strip of shops...I've never seen one like this!
From here we went and did a little shopping, and then went to Ghirardelli square. But our camera battery died. By the time we got back to our hotel in Oakland it was past midnight and we were tired!
Someday we will need to go back and check out the other parts of the city! It is HUGE!
Well folks, that is our huge CA trip! It was so fun, I hope you enjoyed the pics!
2 comments:
I can't believe you've never been there either! My Aunt and Uncle used to live there and we took a really big band trip there one year. It is a fun place!
SF was gorgeous - so glad you made it there! And my mouth is watering dreaming of Boudin's sourdough bread. I want more. :)
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