Samuel Clemens was right
My mom told me a quote from Samuel Clemens (aka Mark Twain): The coldest winter I ever spent was summer in San Francisco. He was right - it's very cold here in the summer.
For the last two days Russ, Hannah, and I have been in the city. On Monday we met Hannah's friend, Yusan, at SF MOMA (San Francisco Museum of Modern Art) and walked around the galleries. I have been to two MOMAs this summer (the first one I went to was in NYC). We then ate lunch across the street in a park and watched a choreographers festival. We walked to China Town and then the Lombard Street (the crookedest street in the world!) then to Ghiradelli Square. Since we walked all that way we decided to treat ourselves with a cable car ride all the way across town. The conductor was very funny and kept making us laugh with his rants about how I let my friend stand next to Russ although Russ and I are together and let Yusan "drive" the cable car. We made it home to eat dinner, relax, and watch the end of The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou.
On Tuesday we made it to town again via CalTrain and then took a streetcar to pier 39 and fisherman's wharf (the tourist trap) where we walked up and down and looked at all the overpriced items suckers (like myself) buy. Hey - I only bought a magnet! We had tickets on a boat to go to Alcatraz at 12:45 pm so we got in line a little early. On Alcatraz, another tourist trap (haha...), there's a little gift store and a 15 minute video (probably made in the 80s), and an audio tour. You pretty much don't know what's going on if you don't spend the few bucks and get a head set so you can roam the jail cells looking like zombies being told what to look at one after another. It was an eerie place and I remember a quote by one of the former inmates saying something like: Everyday you could see what you're missing. He was right - you could see everything from that little island - the Golden Gate Bridge (if only the fog would have lifted that day), downtown, and everything across the bay. After we had enough of "The Rock" we headed back to downtown and took the 28 bus through parks and almost on the GGB to the GGB State Park where we rented bikes for an hour. Awesome bikes - terrible park. There were no signs and bikes had to stay on the roadways where cars were ripping by. And what kind of park has a four lane highway go right through it? If they improved the paths so that bikes and people have "designated lanes" and the weather is not fogging much of the time then perhaps I will return to that park.
Today we get a tour of Apple Computer because Hannah's roommate's dad works there. As you can imagine Russ is on top of the world!
For the last two days Russ, Hannah, and I have been in the city. On Monday we met Hannah's friend, Yusan, at SF MOMA (San Francisco Museum of Modern Art) and walked around the galleries. I have been to two MOMAs this summer (the first one I went to was in NYC). We then ate lunch across the street in a park and watched a choreographers festival. We walked to China Town and then the Lombard Street (the crookedest street in the world!) then to Ghiradelli Square. Since we walked all that way we decided to treat ourselves with a cable car ride all the way across town. The conductor was very funny and kept making us laugh with his rants about how I let my friend stand next to Russ although Russ and I are together and let Yusan "drive" the cable car. We made it home to eat dinner, relax, and watch the end of The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou.
On Tuesday we made it to town again via CalTrain and then took a streetcar to pier 39 and fisherman's wharf (the tourist trap) where we walked up and down and looked at all the overpriced items suckers (like myself) buy. Hey - I only bought a magnet! We had tickets on a boat to go to Alcatraz at 12:45 pm so we got in line a little early. On Alcatraz, another tourist trap (haha...), there's a little gift store and a 15 minute video (probably made in the 80s), and an audio tour. You pretty much don't know what's going on if you don't spend the few bucks and get a head set so you can roam the jail cells looking like zombies being told what to look at one after another. It was an eerie place and I remember a quote by one of the former inmates saying something like: Everyday you could see what you're missing. He was right - you could see everything from that little island - the Golden Gate Bridge (if only the fog would have lifted that day), downtown, and everything across the bay. After we had enough of "The Rock" we headed back to downtown and took the 28 bus through parks and almost on the GGB to the GGB State Park where we rented bikes for an hour. Awesome bikes - terrible park. There were no signs and bikes had to stay on the roadways where cars were ripping by. And what kind of park has a four lane highway go right through it? If they improved the paths so that bikes and people have "designated lanes" and the weather is not fogging much of the time then perhaps I will return to that park.
Today we get a tour of Apple Computer because Hannah's roommate's dad works there. As you can imagine Russ is on top of the world!
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