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Location Date Sun, 12 September 2004 1094965080 Sat, 11 September 2004
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We sure slept well last night!! In bed at 7.30pm and awake when the alarm went off at 6.50am!! School in the USA just started back in their new school year last week, football is starting and baseball has finished!
This morning we were collected by a Greyline coach at 8.45am and had a deluxe city tour in a double decker. We saw the iconic Lombard Street, Danielle Steele's house, the area that Robin Williams and Shirley Temple both live in.....we saw lots of "painted ladies"- those beautiful old houses that San Francisco is renown for. We stopped at beautiful Dolores Mission with a wonderful Basilica (visited by the Pope), then we went up Twin Peaks - usually a great view of the city but fog was rolling all around the place. Our bus driver was Dave, a Vietnam vet who seemed to know a lot about Australian plants. George Lucas lives just out of San Francisco and is building a Star Wars museum.
We drove through an area called Richmond, the district was given its name by Australian immigrant and art dealer George Turner Marsh, one of the neighborhood's earliest residents, who called his home "the Richmond House" after Richmond, a suburb of Melbourne, Australia. Then we went to the Golden Gate Park where Tom and I entered the Botanic Gardens right in the middle of the Australian section!! We also saw a squirrel and a monkey puzzle tree! Our driver kept pointing out all the eucalypts on our drive. We drove through the Presidio (an old army base) and then across the Golden Gate Bridge. The bridge was mostly covered in fog. Then we drove back to Fisherman's Wharf where we had 15 minutes before catching the ferry to Alcatraz. We found a street stall giving out free pizza, so we had 2 slices each and got on our ferry!!
Alcatraz was just great. We spent 3 hours there, doing the audio tour and exploring. It was so interesting.
When we got back we went to check out the sea lions and discovered Wharf 39 - sort of like Darling Harbour on a pier. We also found the Hard Rock Cafe there!! Very handy for my Hard Rock Cafe fix!
We had to wait 20 minutes for a table in a restaurant. We had lovely salmon for dinner, grilled over mesquite wood, with a crab cocktail before hand. The meal was just beautiful, then a leisurely walk back to the Sheraton for some chocs and whisky before bedtime!
This morning we were collected by a Greyline coach at 8.45am and had a deluxe city tour in a double decker. We saw the iconic Lombard Street, Danielle Steele's house, the area that Robin Williams and Shirley Temple both live in.....we saw lots of "painted ladies"- those beautiful old houses that San Francisco is renown for. We stopped at beautiful Dolores Mission with a wonderful Basilica (visited by the Pope), then we went up Twin Peaks - usually a great view of the city but fog was rolling all around the place. Our bus driver was Dave, a Vietnam vet who seemed to know a lot about Australian plants. George Lucas lives just out of San Francisco and is building a Star Wars museum.
We drove through an area called Richmond, the district was given its name by Australian immigrant and art dealer George Turner Marsh, one of the neighborhood's earliest residents, who called his home "the Richmond House" after Richmond, a suburb of Melbourne, Australia. Then we went to the Golden Gate Park where Tom and I entered the Botanic Gardens right in the middle of the Australian section!! We also saw a squirrel and a monkey puzzle tree! Our driver kept pointing out all the eucalypts on our drive. We drove through the Presidio (an old army base) and then across the Golden Gate Bridge. The bridge was mostly covered in fog. Then we drove back to Fisherman's Wharf where we had 15 minutes before catching the ferry to Alcatraz. We found a street stall giving out free pizza, so we had 2 slices each and got on our ferry!!
Alcatraz was just great. We spent 3 hours there, doing the audio tour and exploring. It was so interesting.
When we got back we went to check out the sea lions and discovered Wharf 39 - sort of like Darling Harbour on a pier. We also found the Hard Rock Cafe there!! Very handy for my Hard Rock Cafe fix!
We had to wait 20 minutes for a table in a restaurant. We had lovely salmon for dinner, grilled over mesquite wood, with a crab cocktail before hand. The meal was just beautiful, then a leisurely walk back to the Sheraton for some chocs and whisky before bedtime!
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