San Fran with Cind - we might have frozen a little though...

For Christmas last year, Spence got Cindy and I a little girls trip out to San Fran - we decided to go in February, which may have not been the best choice in terms of temperature, but we still had a blast! I wore my hat almost the entire time with a coat and gloves. We got only a few looks...
We had a free hotel just out of the city and we decided to take the bait of the "free" and go with it. It turned out that although the hotel was nice, transportation was a beast to get in and out of the city and we hated that part, thought it gave us a bunch of laughs and memories:) Next time, we aren't going to take that bait...

We did all of the touristy things, which I love to do, some Cindy had already done having lived in Sacramento for a couple of years, and some she hadn't. Our first night there, we took BART into the city and went to Pier 39 via a trolley car - very fun, and ate some yummy clam chowder. Getting back was another tricky thing, but we finally found a bus that was so funny, I can barely type it. The guy who drove it was a comedian of sorts, and he made the bus dance (braking and such) had some super funny music going, and told SO many funny jokes - we were dying. It was a little dingy and creepy, but such an experience!

Cindy's friend Carla and Cody and their cute little baby Violet, met us our second day there and drove us all over the City. We went on the bridge and walked across and back, we walked out to a very cool lighthouse, went over to Saulsalito for some lunch, which is where I would LOVE to live if it was just a tad warmer, to Nob Hill, drove down Lombard Street - super crazy that people live on this street, to see the Painted Ladies (Full House anyone?) and to dinner with dessert at this cute little Bakery that was probably the best dessert Cind and I had ever had! That was our busiest day but SO fun.

Sunday, we got in a bind with the transportation again (they change times on Sundays) and ended up taking a Taxi into the city (so much for the free hotel at this point:), and went to the Boudin Bakery for a tour. I loved learning about how it started, what it went through with the earthquake and fire and where it is today - love me some info. tours! We went out to Alcatraz for another tour and that was really amazing. I froze of course, but it was really interesting and of course funny with our headsets! We walked around the Piers that day and had a blast. We also visited the Ghirardelli Chocolate Factory and got our free samples - yum!

Monday, was our slow day, but still fun and a LOT of walking. We basically walked the whole downtown area all day, sat in the warm sun in Union Square Park, walked to China Town which ISN'T a must, and then searched all evening for the match to our cute bakery with the delicious desserts which we didn't ever find! We ended up settling for something we thought might be good but wasn't - cue more laughs from us:)

All in all, we had a great trip and plan to do another this year (Spence are you reading this?)!!