I know I have mentioned this before, but for a couple weeks Andrew was working tons (like 20+ hour days), so Andrew decided to take a couple days off. We used one of those days this last weekend. Andrew, Colby and I took off Thursday night to head up to San Francisco, I was so excited because i had never been, and Andrew hasn't been since high school (Colby couldn't care less where we went). Colby did very well on the drive, although he broke my heart when he was asking for "nigh nigh" through his tears, which is sawed off....which i didn't have since we took it away a while ago. He got over it though and we had a fairly pleasant driving experience. Andrew and I were both in shock at the beauty of San Francisco as we drove over the Bay Bridge and saw all the amazing buildings all lit up in the dark. At that moment I just new i loved that city.
The only plans we really had on Friday was our Alcatraz trip at noon, so in the morning we walked and walked and walked and explored all sorts of things. We stayed around the piers so we wouldn't miss the ferry, but we ended up walking miles upon miles. And then we got to Alcatraz and walked some more, but it was so interesting we didn't even realize how tired we were getting (Colby started to remind us how tired he was getting though). Alcatraz is completely amazing, there is so much history there and it was incredible to see it.
After our Alcatraz trip we began our walk to Ghirardelli Square because that was one of the 'must see' spots. On our way we looked through a few markets and got some salt water taffy (incredible) and smelled some very good food. We got our free candy samples, but Andrew and i weren't too intersted in it. It was just a bunch of shops with overpriced candy, but at least i got my samples :) We ate at Boudins, so we got our sour dough bread fix, and we also wanted ice cream too, and thought we'd try out some San Francisco ice cream, we stopped at this little ice cream place to get some Mitchel's Ice Cream and it was AMAZING! we both got our two scoops of ice cream and then the lady surprised me and gave me another scoop of chocolate ice cream for my little baby, and boy am i glad she did, that was the best chocolate ice cream i've ever tasted in my entire life! By this point we were both walking very slowly so we headed back to the hotel room around 7:00 in the evening.
Saturday was our last day there, our only plan was to check out Union Square and to get a better view of the Golden Gate Bridge. We really wanted to go on the cable cars, but with a huge stroller we couldn't quite fit, so we settled for the nice and inexpensive street cars. Colby enjoyed being on that little "train" so it worked out for us. At Union Square we were also a bit overwhelmed by the crazy expensive stores we'd never go in, but we did find out way down to China Town and found the most amazing bakery ever (we went back twice). We wanted to leave to head home around 4:00 so we didn't have too much time to walk around, but we still did our fair share of walking. After Union Square we didn't have much else we needed to see, so we just ate lunch so Andrew could get his sea food fix (since i will never ever make him fish) and we headed back to the hotel to check out. We got in the car and found our way to a nice park next to the Golden Gate Bridge (we didn't want to actually cross it because we didn't want to pay the toll, and we were also in a little bit of a hurry to get back home, so we just found a nice easy park to get to). We let Colby run around, which he enjoyed, but he was also getting extremely tired at this point and wouldn't put up with much, but we had some amazing views.
I absolutely love San Francisco. I couldn't live there, it's much too busy for me, but it sure it beautiful. I would love to go again and bike the Golden Gate Bridge. We almost did it this time, but Andrew and Google talked me out of making that journey at 9 months pregnant. We'll do it some day though :)
No comments:
Post a Comment