Day 13

What an awesome start to the weekend. We headed into San Francisco this morning at 11. All of this after Emily and I went out to run errands, only to find that the Walgreen's pharmacy isn't open on the weekends.. we spent a long time in the FedEx place too and ended up with 9 minutes in our room to get dressed and get down to the bus. We somehow managed, although it involved some serious scrambling, and we were slightly out of breath by the time we boarded the bus to SanFran.

First, we walked for a couple of blocks and ended up eating at Fog City Diner - the most upscale diner i've ever seen. I had a sandwich with a fried green tomato and mozzarella cheese on it. It was interesting and good. After lunch, we climbed up hundreds of stairs (literally) on our ascent to Coit Tower. We stood in line and finally rode the Inception-esque elevator up to the top, only to find more stairs to climb! let's just say we definitely got in our exercise for today.

After taking a bunch of pictures of San Francisco and the bay, we caught the bus to head to the Golden Gate Bridge. We ended up transferring buses twice on our way there and realized the unreliable nature of the San Francisco public transit system. We took waaay too many pictures while waiting for our buses, and enjoyed singing Disney songs, Backstreet Boys, and singing Will a happy birthday on one of our several bus rides. We'd like to think we got the bus pumped up, just like at Great America, but only a few people chose to sing along to Hakuna Matata or I Want It That Way.

We finally got to the Golden Gate Bridge, which was on the other side of town, and again, like the true tourists we are, took a ridiculous number of pictures. We took almost 400 pictures on my camera alone today. It was surprisingly colder when we got out on the bridge, and the top had already disappeared into the fog. The wind was startling and it was muchhh colder than it was in downtown San Francisco. I was very thankful for my wind breaker, and i suppose it was good practice for battling the wind whipping down the Midway this coming winter!

We finally managed to get on a bus that would take us in the general direction that we wanted to go, and thanks to Kasra's Nexus One, we made it back to our bus by 9:00 to head back to SJSU. Tomorrow is another day for laundry, programming, and cleaning up the mess that Emily and I made in our 9 minutes of preparation this morning!

Over and out,

Lynn