Two weeks ago I got to go on a last minute trip to our headquarters in Sunnyvale, CA. Ryan met me out there on Thursday and we went to San Francisco for the weekend. It was my first time there and I loved it! On Friday night we met Jojo and Donna at The Stinking Rose for some delicious and garlicy Italian food. It was great to see them!
We only had really one full day there and we wanted to see everything, so we set out early Saturday morning. The weather was beautiful and we got to explore a ton of the city. It was a lot of fun, I loved how outdoorsy everyone was and how you could walk almost everywhere. Literally... we walked just over 15 miles on Saturday, but it was totally worth it. Here is some of what we saw:
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| sea lions sun bathing... they were so fun to watch! |
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| hills... |
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| After the pier we headed to Mama's for some breakfast. We had to wait in line but it was SOOO worth it. Seriously amazing! |
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| crumb cake... to die for |
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| yummy! |
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| Then we headed to Chinatown - everything was decorated more than usual because Chinese New Year was the Monday before. |
After Chinatown we headed to Coit Tower. I stupidly did not take any pictures of the actual tower but there were some great views from the top!
Then we took the bazillion stairs down Telegraph Hill, it was beautiful and still blows my mind that they built all of those houses on such crazy slopes!
We headed down to the Ferry Building because we had heard they had a Farmer's Market from 10-1. It was great! Tons of local produce, honey, cheese and everything else you could want. We sampled a bit but were still stuffed from breakfast.
We couldn't resist eating some gelato out by the bay though! Delicious!
We then took the metro to the Castro Street station to tour that area. We then headed up to Haight Street (the hippie area) and walked down it toward Golden Gate Park. We took a brief detour here at Beuna Vista Park... as the name suggests it was beautiful!
Golden Gate Park was so much fun and HUGE! We only made it through about the first third of the park and had a blast. There were ultimate games, family picnics, drum circles and some great people watching!
Once we made it out of the part we headed up toward the Presido (the building below and a huge park area/golf course). The 5 mile walk up there was long and up hill most of the way, but looking back the views were amazing!
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| We were exhausted! |
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| Top of the hill! And almost to THE bridge! |
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| Which was good, because it was getting late. |
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| We made it! |
We walked half way out on the bridge which was a lot of fun, but kind of stressful. Between the bikers, joggers and sight seers there didn't seem to be enough room for everyone. But, we made it out there and it was beautiful!
After that we were too exhausted to walk any more so we took the bus back down to our hotel. Thanks to Facebook, my Aunt Sharon saw that we were in town and we got to meet her and Chuck at Golden Boy pizza in North Beach for some dinner. We stupidly forgot to take any pictures with them, but had a great time touring the city at night and seeing their beautiful apartment!
The next morning we got up to have breakfast at another great place we'd heard of called Buena Vista. They are famous for inventing Irish Coffee, so I just had to try one. It was good, but a bit potent for my taste. The French toast and corned beef hash was delicious as well!
On our way out of town we just had to drive down Lombard Street, the curviest street ever! There are eight turns in this one block section. It was slow moving, but fun!
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| To clarify, here is how the iPhone depicts it |
Ryan and I were on separate flights back so I had some time to kill in the San Jose airport. I enjoyed some Cal-Mex food (I definitely prefer the Tex-Mex) and read a bit.
Then after a wonderful but exhausting trip, it was adios California!
