1. Good restaurants
2. Museums
3. Shopping
This makes him the best travel buddy, ever! Stephen started planning our trip to San Francisco long before the wedding. He bought an Eyewitness Top 10 San Francisco book, and a San Francisco Moleskin for us to take notes on our trip and write down places we would like to return to and also to avoid.
We arrived in San Francisco around 7pm on Thursday evening. We had an early night. After we arrived we took BART to our hotel, checked in, and ordered room service for dinner.

Friday morning we had breakfast at Boudin, a sourdough bakery. It was Delicious! Then we went to the Golden Gate Bridge. We both agreed that it is pretty long and bigger than we thought. The weather was overcast but still quite warm.



After lunch we took a walk around Golden Gate Park, an enormous park in the middle of the city half a mile wide by three miles long. In the park we visited the Botanical Gardens and Japanese Tea Garden.




We were pretty warn out from walking around all day and so we decided to head back towards our hotel and just order room service for dinner. While we waited for room service to come, Stephen went down stairs to pick up some stuff from Walgreen's. He came back with pringles, sour patch kids for him, and milk duds for me. He knows me too well!

Saturday morning Stephen told me he was going down stairs to ask the concierge a question, he came back with pastries from two different bakeries and a fruit cup. It was a nice surprise! We took a street car down to Fisherman's wharf. He had the idea of buying Sourdough bread and eating it at the end of pier 39, so that is what we did! We had a nice view of the Bay and Golden Gate bridges, Alcatraz, and some stinky sea lions.

After we finished our sourdough we walked further along the wharf towards Ghiradelli Square. We were walking along a wide stretch of sidewalk when a homeless man holding up branches tied together like a bush jumped out and scared me. I jumped and screamed so loud, it was embarrassing. Stephen said he would have given the man some money for scaring me, but it isn't hard work.

We went to a seafood bar in Nob Hill for lunch because Stephen really wanted to try oysters for the first time. Big mistake. He ordered a oyster cocktail which was in essence a cup filled with grey sea water and white slimy oysters. He tried one and said it was disgusting, but proceeded to finish the whole cocktail dipping the oysters in Tabasco sauce, the clam chowder, cocktail sauce, and a combination of these. It was pretty gross. After lunch we visited several shops in the Nob and Russian Hill neighborhoods, and then took a street car to Lombard street, also known as "the crookedest street." A man on the street car joked that the crookedest street he has ever seen is Wall Street.


Sunday morning we took the Subway to Mission St and had breakfast at Ti Couz. A french crepe restaurant. It was probably my favorite meal of the trip. We ordered a tomato and cheese crepe and a berry crepe and split them. They were delicious. We visited the mission Dolores afterwards. Rather than paying the entrance fee, Stephen and I went into the church just in time for the Spanish Mass Service. We stayed for a few minutes and then walked around the church cemetery. The Mission Dolores is the oldest building in San Francisco.

We took the subway back downtown near to our hotel to do some shopping. We went to CB2 and bought a stainless steel planter and a few serving plates and then returned to our hotel for a mid-afternoon nap.
After our nap we took a walk to Chinatown. We visited San Francisco's original city square which is in the heart of Chinatown and several small stores. We purchased a chop stick set and a few other small things for our new home.



3 comments:
Let me tell you, Amanda. That guy with the bushes was there scaring people when I went to San Francisco. And that was about 4 years ago. I have since heard many stories about the same guy from friends who have traveled there. This is what this guy does every day, and he has done it for years. Awesome, no?
This sounds like the best honeymoon EVER! You and Stephen are my favorite married couple ever. I love you guys!
I like the "Stop Bush" image in the back of the picture of you and Stephen (with your sunglasses).
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