San Francisco, Day 2

We got up bright and early for another full day of touristy site seeing in San Francisco.  We ate our free breakfast at our hotel and then headed toward the Pier.  I was thinking it was Friday so we were stalling to miss rush hour traffice when I suddenly realized that it was Saturday and as you can see, this is what we got into. Oops!!!!!

 We got onto the freeway and then got stopped for about 40 minutes trying to get through the toll.  This guys in front of us decided to hang out of his sun roof and dance.  It was so funny.  We were having a great time laughing at him.  He had some great moves and his t-shirt was cracking us up but by the time I got a good picture of it we realized that it wasn't appropriate for a family friendly blog. 

 After some interesting driving downtown I found us a great parking garage.  All day for $10!!!!  On Friday we parked at a lot at Pier 39 that cost $8 an hour.  This one was a way better deal and only a couple of blocks from the cable car so we just rode it back and forth all day.

 We found the trolly car but it had just left so we got a few pictures of it and then waited for the next one.

 Alex was so excited to ride that he decided to snuggle with me. 

 We made it onto the trolly car and it was so fun.  We had planned on riding all three routes but we ran out of time.  This one was alot of fun though so we were good to go and we got to check it off of our list of things to get done.

 We went to China Town and looked around for a while.  That was fun and we even found some cool souveniers.

 This fun water fountain was downtown. 

 Alex walked through the path behind the water.  Megan and I didn't want to get wet.  We are girls you know!!!!!

 We hoped on the street car next and took it down to Pier 39 again.

 I said I wasn't leaving until we had clam chowder in a bread bowl so we got that done early.  It was just as good as I remembered it.  Megan had a really good pretzel and Alex had a very boring hot dog.  They wouldn't even try mine.

 We went to the candy shop for saltwater taffy and then walked all the way down the street and checked out all of the action.  There was all sorts of fun stuff going on.  After all of that it was time to head toward Pier 33 to get our tickets for the Alcatraz tour

 We took the 6:45 p.m. tour so that we could be there at night also but it didn't really get dark until we were ready to head back.

 We made it to the Island.  It was so cool.  The old buildings were so neat to look at.

 If you knew how to take pictures this would be the place to come to.  It had so many great spots.

 We were trying to get a picture of all of us but it wasn't working to well.

 After the regular tour you get to take an audio tour.  It was really fun to listen to and to hear from the people who had worked and lived there.

 Megan wanted to get locked up.

 The cells are so small.  I don't know how a large man could handle living in there!!!!!

 We were getting ready to get back on the boat and realized we had missed the sign.  We were a bit slow.

We had the best two days touring around.  We saw everything that we wanted and got to check everything off of our list.  It was so much fun.  We are headed to Palm Springs first thing in the morning.  Another 8 hour drive and then a full week of sunshine and swimming with everyone.