San Francisco

So, we've got relatives visiting this week, and sometimes when we have people visiting, we end up going to San Francisco to do 'the tourist thing'. We still enjoy it when we go, because we really don't go up there very much, even though we're right here. We really crammed the stuff in today - I'm not sure we've ever done so much in San Francisco in one day.

Started off in the morning, meeting Tyler in San Francisco on BART. We got on a cable car and took it to Lombard street. Walked down the stairs to the side of the street - I wanna drive down it some day. We got some lunch at a place which apparently has San Francisco's Finest Pizza. At least, that's what the sign said. There were eight of us, and not a single one got the pizza. Maybe we'll never know....

Then we (obviously) went to Ghirardelli for ice cream. It was goooood. My dad looked excited =P.
After Ghirardelli we headed to Coit tower. Interestingly enough, my dad has never been up there. We ended up taking a lot of the same stairs on the way down that we did when we were headed to Coit tower over spring break.
Walked to the Ferry Building and spent some time there - there's some pretty cool stuff in there. Sampled some goooood cheese (and a bad one, in my opinion...) and some really good olive oils.

Keeping busy, we then headed over to Chinatown, which was a lot of fun. Hard not to buy stuff there. One of the things I bought was a 'wisdom cap'. Expect to see more of this at Stanford. Maybe around finals time. I've offered my family a whole load of 'advice' tonight.


Walked through Little Italy on our way back to the Cable Car. Which didn't stop anyway, so we ended up walking all the way to the Powell BART station.

So... Cable Cars, Lombard, San Francisco's Finest Pizza (without the pizza), Ghirardelli, Coit Tower, Ferry Building, Chinatown, AND Little Italy, all in one day.

We decided to finish off the day splendidly with CHIPOTLE. But the FC Chipotle closes at 9:00, and we didn't get in to the Millbrae station until around 8:50 or so. Not to be deprived of our night's fine end though, my parents discovered that the Millbrae Chipotle is open until 10:00. Chyea. Mmmmmmm.