This past weekend R and I took an extended long weekend to head to San Francisco. I've wanted to go there for a while - the rest of my family and a few friends have been and raved about what a cool place it was, and really, almost anywhere south of us has better weather than we do right now!
We woke up insanely early for a vacation (ready and out before 9am!) and were astounded with the gorgeous sun. It was warm too, like that first warm spring day where you can't decide if you need a sweater or not, but it's sunny so you try desperately to suck it up in a teeshirt.. definitely one of those days.
We started our San Francisco adventures by wandering through Chinatown.
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| Chinatown dressed up for Chinese New Year |
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| Chinatown |
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| The gates to Chinatown |
From there, we wandered through town, looking for the cable car museum and Lombard Street. We were enjoying the weather and the opportunity to see a different city.
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| Union Square |
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| A cable car! So picturesque |
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| I think this symbolizes San Francisco quite well; hills, cute houses and a cable car. |
We ended up wandering a lot further than we thought the first day, and decided to go see Coit Tower. I'm sure there's lots of interesting history behind it, but it's (in my opinion!) kind of an ugly building! The bottom floor is interesting because many artists have painted scenes from Californian life, which is kind of cool. We didn't end up paying the $7/person to go to the top.
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| Coit Tower |
We eventually made it to Lombard Street, the self-proclaimed crookedest street in the world. I think it has 9 curves in one block. Kind of insane! It was pretty entertaining to watch people driving down taking photos and videos of themselves.. We chose to walk (way cheaper than renting a taxi, even for a block!).
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| Lombard St |
That's the end of day 1. We did lots more, but that's enough to get an idea :)
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