So yesterday Wednesday (9/8) was our first full day in the big San Francisco city. Rich and I woke up around 7am and went for a nice morning run, it was chilly but the weather was absolutely perfect. I could not get over the views of the water and all the beautiful buildings. We did stop on one of the piers to view the Golden Gate bridge and Alcatraz, it was so awesome. We also found a really nice park in the city that had many other runners and bikers it was quite a run...one of the best runs I have ever had.
After getting ready we headed out for breakfast as we had a long day of touring a head of us. Our first stop was to the Blue Aquarium, Lindsey had a blast she loved looking at all the sea life including all the fishes. We got to see many cool creators including Sharks, Sting Ray's, Star Fishes and Jelly Fishes. We walked through two huge water tunnels which Lindsey loved and also got to touch Sting Ray's and Star Fishes.
Our next tour was the famous Sourdough Factory, which we got to sample fresh bread and it was yummy. Lindsey loved eating the bread she could not get enough of it. The bakery of this place was so cool it was huge and a landmark of the city. We ended up eating soup from this resturant and instead of using bowls they use round loafs of bread and put the soup in the middle of it, the best part is that that top of the bowl is bread which you can use to dunk. It was one of the best soups I have ever had. It was so nice to eat at a local resturant that was famous in the city, we really enjoyed the atmosphere.
Our next adventure was called "Ride the Ducks" which was a bus tour around the big city as well as boat that toured around the bay. Yes a bus that turned into a boat it was so cool and we got little yellow quakers that we got to use while on the bus. The tour was 90 minutes long, it was an awesome tour and so worth it. We got to see a lot of San Francisco that we wouldn't have seen with the amount of time we had here so it was worth it. Lindsey was so wiped out that she feel asleep on grandma Pat after a half hour on the bus but I can say the rest of us enjoyed the tour.
After eating some lunch we decided we weren't done yet and that we wanted to ride a cable car and tour the famous Lombard Street...the most crookedest street in the world and boy was it ever. Well we ended up going to far out of our way to take the cable car to Lombard street so we decided to walk there instead...well let me tell you all I thought I was in shape until I climbed this street and realized I had leg muscles I never knew I had it was crazy. I was so glad to make it up that hill. The worst part is that Rich carried Lindsey up this 45 degree hill, he was exhausted. But we all made it and the view was worth it, it was incredible. Lombard Street is amazing the flowers made it so beautiful, it really was breath taking. We ended up riding the cable car on the way down which was so much fun. The car was packed so we didn't get to see much but it was still fun.
So by 7pm we were all very tired and decided to call it a night. We grabbed some dinner came back to the room and hung out for the rest of the evening. We were getting very excited for today as we were going to Alcatraz.
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