Log(pye)

Too bad this wasn’t a REAL long weekend… I had to take some vacation days against it… though it was a nice break from the everyday I must admit.

Did quite a lot in San Francisco:

Friday:

• Lombard Street – couldn’t find the price of a property here, but just 1/2 mile west it was $750k
• Chinatown – parking was extremely hard to find, and expensive too
• drove around in downtown traffic trying to get to hotel to check-in, but it took about 30 minutes to go 2 miles
• Alcatraz night tour – this was pretty interesting… having seen Escape from Alcatraz and The Rock; it was pretty entertaining
• Dinner at a pretty small (but packed) French restaurant… quite possibly the BEST warm chocolate cake I’ve had in my life.

Saturday:

• Napa Valley Vineyards – visited Mumm and Merryvale wineries… not that I know much about them…
• Had dinner near the hotel; a mediocre Japanese place… while walking there we took a wrong turn and walked into (and through, and back) the shadiest part of town… extremely memorable!

Sunday:

• Shopping in downtown – our hotel was just a few blocks from Union Square so we walked around downtown going into the posh stores that I could never afford anything in… then went to H&M to buy something I COULD afford
• Crossed the Golden Gate Bridge to Sausalito for lunch on the patio – bad idea, it was COLD
• Walked around in the main street of Sausalito for a bit
• Backtracked to the lookout point for the Golden Gate Bridge to take touristy shots
• Headed to San Jose for a BBQ dinner

Monday:

• Palace of Fine Arts – I thought this was going to be a snooze; seriously who would want to look at columns? Different story when I got there, it looked so awesome… Spent about an hour walking around taking pictures!
• Pier 39 Fisherman’s Wharf – nothing too awesome, pretty much just a touristy area, reminds me of the shops by the shore in downtown San Diego… Visited the smelly walruses and had some clam chowder.
• Drove to San Jose and stopped off at Santana Row to kill some time and to experience how rich people who drive Ferrari’s, Lotus’s and other fine cars kill their time
• Hopped on a plane back to Seattle

Good times; here’s about 5% of the pictures

..eyp; refreshed, after a much needed vacation…