SF Day 2

We leave tonight! Back to the real world of work and school and writing papers...sigh.

But, let me tell you all about yesterday!

We drove into the city yesterday...(Yes, I actually drove around the city...up and down those steep, scary hills...I can't wait until Grant can do the driving.)

We had lunch at Round Table...they delivered Grant's pizza relly quick,but mine didin;t come out for 20 more minutes, by which time we had finished Grant's and i made two trips to the salad bar. So only a quarter of my pizza got eaten, so we gave the rest to a bum sitting outside and went on our way.

I drove down Lombard Street, which thankfully was NOT crowded. Next, we drove to the Exploritorium, which was really crowded...We spent a few hours there, and then left. We had reservations for thr Tactile Dome, but not until 6:45...

So we went towards Fisherman's Wharf, and lucked out by finding a spot the block abovr Ghiredelli Square...a free spot! We walked the 5 blocks or so to Fisherman's Wharf and took a bay cruise on the Red and White fleet. The had personal head sets to listen to the tour, which made it easier to hear then in SAeattle when they spoke on a microphone.

After out tour, we went back to Ghiredelli Square and had, you guessed it, Ice Cream Sundaes. This time, I had the Cable Car, which was a scoop of chocolate ice cream, chocolate chip, and rocky road, with Hot fudge and marshmellow topping. Grant had the warm cookie bottom sundae, which was a hot fudge sundae with a warm cookie...on the bottom (imagine that). You know what is so sweet about Grant? He always gives me his cherry.

After our sundae snack, we drove through the city again, therough the Italian districe and China town, and then back to th Explorotarium for our tactile Dome experience. The museum closed at 5 so unless you were going in the dome, you couldn't go in.

The tactile DOME is a labrynth that you climb through compleatly in the dark...pitch black...you use your hands to crawl, slide down and navigate your way through. It was very cool. We went through twice.

When we were done, we took the advice of the employees, and left our car there, and walked to Chestnut Street to have dinner. We found this place called Asqew Grill, just of Chestnut, which had different kinds of skewers. It was really good. Grant got balsamic Beef, and I got Thai BBQ chicken, and we got an appitizer of grilled asparagus. Yummy!

we walked back to our car and drove across the Golden Gate Bridge and through Berkley to get home. it was a little bit longer, but we thought a new route would be nice. And it wwould have been, if one of the bridges we went across (not the GOLDEN Gate) didin't have work being done on it which slowed us down ALOT!

over all it was a very good trip, and it is not over yet! Today, we are going to the Winchester Mystery House! I'll tell ya all about it, later. But now, we must pack!