San Francisco

San Francisco is one of my favourite cities in the US, I love going for a ride on the cable cars up and down the steep hills. We were in a great hotel too, on the top of Nob Hill with great views of the city and the cable car riding right past.

San Francisco sunrise from hotel room

Nob Hill is right on top of one of the biggest hills in San Francisco as we found out, the hard way. We walked down the hill to the bay along Fisherman's Wharf from Pier 39 around Fort Mason for views of the Golden Gate Bridge. We ended up at the Ghirardelli chocolate shop to pick up a few things and then round to Boudin for some clam chowder in a sourdough bread bowl, yum. There was a huge queue for the cable car back up the hill to our hotel so we decided to walk instead, great exercise.

View of the walk up Nob Hill to our hotel

We caught up with Terrie and Paul for dinner on their last weekend in the US before they head to Guatamala for the last part of their 3 year stint overseas. They took us to the North Beach region of the city also known as Little Italy, the main street lined with Italian restaurants, which reminded me of Lygon Street back home.

Our second day in San Francisco saw a drastic change in weather from sunny hot temp of 95oF to a much cooler, foggy day with temps in the low 60's. Also our plans to ride the cable car all day long were thrown away when it broke down so had to settle with taking the bus instead. This in combination with bad sushi (you know its not good when the chef walks through the restaurant holding a side of frozen salmon, with the Glad Wrap falling off) put me in a bit of a cranky mood. Oh well, back to work tomorrow.