San Francisco - day 4 (and trip details)

Our last day in San Francisco wasn't overly exciting - it was a clean up day, in a sense. We hadn't made it to the Mission, the Castro or the Painted Ladies. We realized though that since we were up so early and there was a BART station close by, it made sense to just check out early and walk towards the Painted Ladies, and then down.

On our way, we saw the civic centre (and city hall).

City Hall

 What a gorgeous building! I'm not sure what's up with the kind of weird looking trees, but maybe in the spring and summer they look nice. For now, they just look a bit funny!

After that, we walked to Alamo Park to see the Painted Ladies. I wasn't really blown away by this 'attraction' .. They looked nice, but so did most of the houses in San Francisco! Ahh well. Took the obligatory tourist photo and headed on to the Castro and Mission.

Painted Ladies

With the last few things seen and done, we headed back towards the Castro and Mission districts where we wandered around, ate a bit more and headed to the airport.

The details:
We stayed at the Mosser Hotel. It was cheap, really central and really cute. I like old-style buildings with big trim and old doorknobs.. this place fit the bill. We opted for the shared bathrooms mainly because neither of us care that much, and it was cheaper.

Some of our favourite restaurants from the trip are:
Cassava - a really cute cafe in the Richmond area. We had a grilled veggie panini and a salad, both of which were awesome!
Restaurant Lulu - our fancy dinner out. This restaurant was fairly close to our hotel. We shared some seriously amazing and tender beef and a grilled eggplant pizza.
Tropisueno - this was my favourite of the trip. Also close to our hotel, this was authentic Mexican.
Boudin Bakery - This is San Francisco's original sourdough bakery. We headed there for lunch after going to Alcatraz. Pretty awesome sour dough, and clam chowder in a sourdough bowl (I didn't try it..).

I forgot to mention that I searched "San Francisco" in the Apple store before I left, just to see if there might be anything useful. I found this "Top 25 San Francisco" and loved it. It worked while in airplane mode (map included!), had prices, etc. It was really useful, and I will definitely be looking for another similar app next time we travel!