san fran: day 2

on saturday dani and i hit all the tourist attractions {warning: long post}. we hit the ferry building first thing for their market day. lots of neat specialty food shops and it was packed...





we then walked {up a very steep hill} to chinatown. street was lined with souvenir type shops...




we did find the alley that held the fortune cookie factory and got a sample, of course...


then it was off to find those dern cable cars. that was the one thing about san fran that i didn’t expect. i thought the cable cars were a viable mean of transportation for all san franciscans. they seem to be a more touristy thing to do. we let the first one pass by as it was packed and we weren’t exactly sure what to do...

we rode the next one to lombard street...

dani saw one of these and wanted to rent one...

then we hopped back on the cable car to only ride it a few blocks to fisherman’s wharf.

we grabbed a burger at in-n-out. we didn’t eat at the one in scottsdale so we had to try it this time. nothing special to us. {later we found out that the “real” in-n-out’s are only in southern California}.

we walked along fisherman’s wharf and found these guys.

it was a beautiful day with tons of sailboats out around alcatraz...

we hopped the bus to coit tower for a great view of the city, the bridge, and alcatraz...

then we had to go see the golden gate bridge...

we ended the day at the crab house where dani proudly sported her bib...