The BLOG GOES ON – San Francisco Trip

Sunday, June 20, 2010

I left my cell phone in the van, what a bummer.  I’m sure I will miss having contact with my family.  Once we arrived in San Francisco and checked into the Hilton, a group of us walked to the Ferry Building.  We were immediately struck with how different San Fran is than New York.  Panhandling is much more rampant and a lesser police force is evident.  I do not feel near as safe here as we did in New York.  We walked along and shopped at some of the street vendors along the way.  We saw lots of jewelry and all kinds of stuff. 

     The real excitement came later in the evening when all of us went to Kulecko’s Italian restaurant and Donna, Lindsey, Dana, Genevive, John, ___________ and I got stuck in this teeny, elevator.  Wall to wall people.  Oh my.  When we really realized we were stuck it was hard to keep from panicking, as it became hotter and there was no air circulating.  Dana called the phone on the elevator car to let them know we were stuck and then Matt who was really funny, but not. After about 15 minutes they pried the door open and into the restaurant we went to share dinner.   The food was excellent!

Monday, June 21, 2010

      I’m missing my family a lot.  Without my phone it is hard and people have been kind to loan theirs but I didn’t memorize many numbers because I’m used using the phone list in my phone.  We went on a walking tour of San Fran today.  Our guide took us to China Town, Little Italy, the Barbary Coast, and all kinds of interesting places.  We ate lunch at a baseball restaurant called Lefty O’Doul’s.  After the walking tour finished, a bunch of us opted to catch the bus to Fishernan’s Wharf.  We walked along the water, shopped at the street vendors, bought a couple of pair of earrings, saw the Dolphin Club swimming in the bay, hiked up to Ghirardelli Square and observed their chocolate making process and of course we had to try some.  Very tasty!  Their hot fudge is amazingly good.  Then we headed to the Wharf and got sidetracked with designer purses. Donna, and Lindsey each bought a purse or two and got to experience the room behind the wall. It was pretty funny.  Finally, we made it to the Wharf and saw all of the seafood such as lobster and crab for sale.  Some of the crabs were still moving after being cooked.  That freaked us all out.  It didn’t seem that most of us were seafood lovers, so we went to a bakery and I enjoyed bread bowl chili.  Then we were enticed by the purses behind the wall again and missed our bus like three times.  It grew very cool temperature wise on the wharf.  I was glad to finally make it back to the hotel and crash.  It was really a fun day.  We also landed tickets for WICKED for only fifty dollars for tomorrow evening!  Anybody else want to go?  That price is sooo much better than the $200 tickets in New York.  Cool!

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