San Francisco

Clark had a work conference in San Francisco last week and he invited me to come with him. A week long date in California? How could I refuse? We left Sunday morning, drove to Salt Lake City, took a plane to Long Beach, CA and then another plane to San Francisco. These pictures are out of order so I'll just explain them as I go. On our flight to San Francisco we watched "The Best Thing You Ever Ate: Bacon". We were pleasantly surprised that two of the favorite bacon entrees came from San Francisco so we thought we had to try them out while we were there. The first was "Dynamo Donuts" Maple Bacon Donut. It's a local shop which makes all it's dough by hand and includes bacon and apples in the dough. Then after the donut gets fried, it's topped with a maple glaze and bacon bits. It was tasty, although it was $3 a piece! The other entree was at a store called "Boccalone" where they serve sliced meat in a cone. Clark got a few different varities of pork, but we weren't too impressed with it. There was a cupcake shop just down the road from our hotel. It was the cutest shop I had ever seen. The walls were painted brown with pink polka dots. There were 40 different cupcakes to choose from. They were also $3 each.

Clark's conference was Monday through Thursday so it left us Friday to do most of our sightseeing. We went to Alcatraz Friday morning. We were surprised with all the history that happened on the little island. It was a military prison, federal penitentary, home to a thousand American Indians in 1969, and now it's a national park.

Here we are on a ship on our way to Sausalito. It's a small island about a few miles from San Francisco. We enjoyed a nice dinner there with Clark's co-workers.

We took the cable car a few times for the experience. We found it was more expensive than a bus or a taxi. We went to the Cable Car Museum which described how they run and how they are repaired. In the 70's they tried to rid the city of them because they aren't very efficient, but the townspeople fought them and they got to keep their cable cars.

We also walked up Lombard Street, the crookedest street in America. We took a picture of it, but it didn't do the street justice. It is a one-way street with 8 very sharp turns, all down hill.

Our last night in San Francisco we went to the beach. There was a Safeway across the road where we got french bread, turkey, cheese, and chips. We had a picnic and watched the sunset. It was a wonderful trip. Towards the end, we both got quite home sick and antsy to see our kids again, but I'm so glad we got to spend the week together.