Day 27 (Wednesday, July 21st) San Francisco, CA

Yesterday, we drove out of the Nevada desert (Finally!!) and into San Francisco. While it was nice to be with John's friend and his family, we'd had enough of triple digit temperatures. We lost about 59 degrees between when we left Boulder City and arrived in San Francisco (Vallejo, to be exact).

We got up this morning to a chilly, cloudy morning and had a relaxing hot breakfast. We headed into San Francisco to do some sightseeing. Unfortunately, we forgot to order tickets for Alcatraz so we spent the day seeing the sights in the city. The first stop was Lombard Street. We stopped to take pictures from the top and bottom and let the boys run up and down the hill. Traffic was much too heavy for them to run on the road itself but they got a kick out of running on the sidewalk. After taking pictures, we drove down this "curviest road". Very cool!

From Lombard Street, we headed over toward the waterfront. We walked over to Hyde Street where the cable cars turn around. You can no longer just pay for a short ride on them; but have to purchase a full day pass. This was more than we needed and didn't want to pay $52 for a 5 minute ride so we took pictures of them and then went over to Ghiradelli Square and got a free sample of their delicious chocolate. We walked along the beachfront and out onto the Hyde Street Pier. On display was an old paddle wheel ferry boat, a tug boat, and an old cargo sailing ship and we got to wander through all but the tug boat.

By the time we finished on the pier it was dinner time and we were all starving. We headed over to Fisherman's Wharf to see about getting dinner. It would have been neat to get something from one of the seafood vendors and eat outside but it was far too cold for that so we opted for one of the restaurants instead.

After dinner, we went over to a view point by the Presidio to take pictures of the Golden Gate Bridge. The fog was rolling in pretty quick and the mist was settling on us but it the bridge looked realy cool in the fog.

Tomorrow, we'll do a tour of wineries in the Sonoma and Napa Vallies.