San Francisco

I just returned from a girls trip to San Francisco. I went with my mother-in-law (Donna) and two sisters-in-law (Andrea and Heather). I had an awesome time!! It was the funnest trip, full of lots of site seeing, food and laughing. We laughed a lot...these ladies are fun to be with!!!

On our first night there we took the BART (subway type system) into the city. We walked around Union square and china town and then had dinner at the House of Nanking. This restaurant was recommended to us so that is why we went into the city to eat there. The food was pretty good the sanitation not so much. When we asked for straws for our drink...the lady brought some back. She had a glove on one hand and put the straws in our drinks for us with the opposite hand. It didn't really matter which hand she used because she wore that glove the whole time we were there and touched everything with it. That wasn't too bad though. From where we were sitting we could see the kitchen and the entrance to the bathroom door. We watched as the dishwasher came out of the kitchen, with wet rubber gloves up to the elbows, went into the bathroom (with the gloves on) and came out a few minutes later with the same wet gloves on. Luckily, we had already finished our dinner. We had some good laughs!!!

On our second day, we went to Fisherman's wharf where we roamed around and shopped. We also had lunch there. Donna and I had seafood. It was pretty darn yummy!!! After lunch, we rented tandem bikes and rode them to the Golden Gate Bridge. It was really fun. San Fransisco is a really pretty city and the bike path went right along the water. After our bike ride we went to Lombard street which is the crookedest street in SF. We ventured around to a few more places and headed back near the hotel. We went to dinner and a movie before calling it a day.

The following day, we had tickets to Alcatraz. I've always wanted to go there so I was pretty excited. We took an audio tour around the prison. It was interesting and is definitely a cool place. After getting back from Alcatraz we had some lunch and did a little more shopping before heading back to the hotel. We sat with our feet in the hot tub and talked and laughed some more before eating again and seeing another movie.

It was a really fun trip and really nice to have a break from every day duties!! I think that we should do a girls trip every month...who's in!!??

Chinatown

Union square (shopping area...too ritzy for me)

Fisherman's wharf

Yummy seafood...Heather and Andrea were repulsed

I didn't really have to go to the bathroom...but I thought these bathrooms were pretty cool with their cleaning cyclesGetting ready to leave on our bike ride

The best tandem team

All of us in front of the golden gate bridge

Almost trolly time

Lombard street

The bay bridge in the background

Alcatraz

Cool staircase