San Fran Trip!

(Beware: This is a SUPER LONG post...if you don't have the time or the constitution to make it through, I suggest you just skim). So Thursday evening we drove to Pheonix and then flew to the beautiful San Francisco! We had such a fun time! (And it was already payed for :). Our first day there, our digital camera battery died...SO UNFORTUNATE, and we totally didn't bring the charger. So we bought a really cheap (really crappy) disposable. So you might notice a change in the quality of our pictures from the morning of day one, to the afternoon. It was awesome! Everywhere we went there was a trolly or cable car to take us there! We sat, stood, and hung on for dear life! It was so fun!

Hanging onto the Trolly...I got to ring the bell.The tall building with the Flag on top is our Hotel.
This is a front veiw of our Hotel.We just couldn't get over how people park sideways on HILLS!
A gorgeous building...We can't remember what it's called.

Day One:
Fisherman's Wharf and Peir 39. We took the Blue and Gold Fleet Cruise around Alcatraz and The Golden Gate Bridge. Absolutely gorgeous! It was a cloudy day so it was kind of chilly but it was so beautiful.

AlcatrazThe Golden Gate BridgeA cool view of the CityGoing Under...Under....And onto the other side!Coming back around we got a closer view of Alcatraz.

Then we ate at the Wipeout Grill, which was very delicious.

Then we went to the Aquarium of the Bay, where we saw... An Octopus,HUGE star fish, some beautiful jelly fish,

...and various other underwater animal life. The coolest part was, we got to pet a sting ray and a leopard shark.

Then we hit up China Town. It seriously is it's own little community. Everyone speaks chinese, (some people ONLY speak chinese) and everything is written in Chinese.

So when we went to this little restaurant to try some dim sum (sp?) and the menu was in chinese and the lady only spoke broken english...it was quite an adventure.Last but not least, we climbed Lombard street. The most crooked street in the world. And let me tell you it was tough! But the view at the top was worth it!The Start of the Crooked Street...however, we started two streets down...so we climbed three really steep hills to get to the top.

The Top...gorgeous view of the city!

Day Two:

We went to the California Academy of Sciences...I'm not gonna lie, it was kind of a let down. We saw all the same aquarium animals that we had seen the day before. Except the Sea Horse, which was pretty cool. However, out front they had these two peeps dressed like an octopus and a jelly fish...I thought it was fun so I snapped a picture.
They also had a Rain Forest Dome that had beautiful butterflies everywhere. One landed on this lady next to me so I snagged it to take a picture. They were so beautiful!

Then we headed to the Expoloratorium, which was SUPER fun and and lots of cool things to play with. Most of our pictures didn't turn out because it was dark. Here is one of us sitting in a really BIG chair.And one of Randon playing in the colorful lights!

Next to the Exploratorium was the Palace of the Arts. A few big, beautiful buildings that we both fell in love with.

After a little rest and relaxation at our hotel we headed back to Fisherman's Wharf. We stopped to get this caricature drawn. I asked a passerby to take a picture of us with our artist and the idiot didn't get me in it!

Last for the day we headed to Ghirardeli Square for some chocolate! We were both exhausted by the time our trip was over, but neither one of us wanted to come home!