The cruise along the coast line around alcatraz and under the golden gate bridge was a fantastic way to see the island and soak in some of its history-lots of famous prison break outs..but all unsucessful!!
Pier 39 is the ultimate tourist location in San Francisco, home to over 400 playfully lazy sunbathing sealions!!whom we watched for hours!after a bit of shopping and hayley's excitment at the left handed shop we wandered down to fishermans wharf. We could have got the cable car but we decided to walk up this ma-hoosive hill to see the famous crooked street..the only street in the citys that not intentionally straight! ( you need to see the pictures!)
Wednesday morning was quite an evenful one, changing hostels at 8am all seemed to be going smoothly until a van decided to park in the tram tracks causing us to get off early and run to catch our first tour of the city...a ride in an actual 63yr old world war II truck that not only had wheels but was boat shaped and took us for a cruise in the bay! Our driver was a real live war veteran and swedish who amused us by making us quack when he quacked and the locals loved it! Would recomond the DUCK tours to anyone!
After the tour we took a trip to the 'delightfully tacky yet unrefined' Hooters bar for lunch and extra large lemonades( bucket sized and pink!) Food was great and being typical students, we took advantage of 20% discount when buying our souviner vest tops :) so we can be hooters girls too!!
The second hostel wasnt great however Sarah invited one of her room mates along to join us to go and visit Golden Gate Park. After gettin on the train in the wrong direction we managed to eventually get the tram in the correct direction to the castro district..home of the hippies ,free love and lots of rainbows. Had a great lunch then wandered up one of SFs many hills and long to golden gate park.
We went in to a bar afterwards for a much needed happy hour drink and discovered some fabulously cheap cocktails..vodka triple sec cranberry lime and a dash of red bull mm..a few hours later we left to head down to fishermans wharf for the evening to check out a bar called the dirty martini! on the way, a dutch and french guy who were clearly lost asked us where we were going and we invited them to join us and 3 hopeful europeans became 5! The bar was good and music great but it seems like most san franciscans leave the partying till the weekend!
Today we hired bikes and cycled miles..and miles..We cycled the golden gate bridge with spectacular breath taking views and on our way back we almost got lost in a huge crowd of cyclists. we asked a guy what was going on and he said that every last friday of the month, all keen cyclists meet outside the ferry terminal and go for a 2 hr cycle around the city. We joined the crowd and became part of the event..there were probably nearly a 1000 cyclists some with stereos blasting out music and others on weird and wonderful contraptions, the hippie spirit is definately still alive here!!AWESOME!
Tonight we journey on to Los Angeles and Hollywood tommorow..meet us there!
Hayley and Sarah xx
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