Part five...San Francisco!

I did write this a week ago, but my phone decided to delete it for some reason...

We arrived at our hotel mid afternoon and chilled out for a while. Our hotel was in emeryville,  across the river from San Francisco.  We had a quiet night in and got some noodles from a shop called Trader Joes which was so good! 

Our first day in the city we decided to head to the centre. We had to take a shuttle bus to the BART station (bay area rapid transit) which then took us to the centre across the river. We started off at pier 39 which is massively touristy with fun shops like a left hand shop and a sock shop which had wonder woman socks with capes on! We checked out all the shops and then spent ages watching the sea lions that cover one side of the pier. They are so noisy and smelly but very entertaining to watch as they push each other off. We headed to Lombard street which was up a massive hill and full of tourists blocking the road taking group photos. They needed two traffic control men to keep the cross roads going properly. We wandered back to the station and by the time we got dinner and headed back to the hotel for some more noodles and salad for some tv and sleep.

Our second day was going to be golden gate bridge day. We had been told which bus to get so we confidently headed to the city centre. We couldn't find the bus stop for a good hour and when the bus did come they only took exact change. So we headed up the road to a shop to get some change. Thinking there would be lots more bus stops up the road we carried on walking up the hill. An hour or so later we realised this wasn't the case at all and had to find another bus to take us. We finally got there and trekked across. It was so windy and, again, full of tourists taking group photos and just generally being in the way of everyone else. We got a bus back to the centre and did a bit of window shopping before going back to the hotel.

Our last day in san Francisco was going to be Alcatraz which we were excited for.  We got the boat over and did our audio tour of the jailhouse which is very creepy but so interesting.  

We couldn't stay for too long as we were heading down the coast that afternoon :-)