Aimlessly Wandering

We got back to the hotel at well after midnight, and the next morning we were delivered breakfast in bed. Pretty neat. We wish we could have stayed longer to enjoy the hotel more, as it had a "living room", with a couch and a fireplace. Next time we need to spend the night in San Francisco we want to stay there again!

We checked out of the hotel and then drove around downtown for a while doing some Geocaching. We really figured that without the kids it would be a lot faster and that we would get a whole ton of caching done, but we haven't done a lot of big city caching before, and we were frustrated because each cache took at least twenty minutes a piece, trying to find a parking place, sometimes driving around the block four or five times in order to find one. After a while we were in Chinatown and we looked up and saw Coit Tower and decided to go there. We enjoyed all the murals and the views! There were some great scenes in the murals, including two surveyors. As a fun side note, while we were at the top of the Coit Tower on the west coast, we got a call from Weston and Laura, and at the same time they were at the top of the Statue of Liberty on the east coast. We traded picture messages on our phones and wondered what the odds were of that happening. Pretty cool!

We stopped at another cache at Alamo Park. This is where you see the view all the time of the six "painted ladies" houses when you see pictures of San Francisco. For example in the Cingular ads and at the beginning of the show "Full House". While we were there we saw a movie being made, so we went over to investigate. It was a Bollywood movie with a cast and crew almost entirely from India. We watched for awhile and then went on to Golden Gate Park. On the way we stopped for a late lunch at Tony's Cable Car Restaurant. That was a fun little place.

When we got to Golden Gate Park, it was such a gorgeous day. We really enjoyed walking around as we looked for other caches. We went by the Conservatory of Flowers, the de Young Museum and the Rose Garden. As we walked by the Rose Garden we were surprised to see the same Bollywood movie being filmed there as well. We watched for a while, talked to some of the crew and took a few more photos. What a coincidence that in a city as large as San Francisco we just happened to be in the same two places at the same time. We spoke with one man who turned out to be one of the film's producers. He asked if we'd ever seen an Indian movie.

"Well... yeah.... late at night, while flipping thru the channels", Kevin said.

"Really", he asked. "Which ones?"

"Uhh... I have no idea what they were.... but the girls were pretty."

He smiled and said, "Yes, they were".

We left the Park and Kevin noticed that we were about to cross Haight Street. A quick right turn and we were in the Haight Ashbury District - the area that made the 60's the 60's. Saturday night was obviously the best time to be there.

By this time it was getting late, so we drove out of downtown and headed down to our second hotel, near the San Francisco Airport. We had to get a second hotel, as by the time we had decided to stay for the second night, the hotel that we were going to be staying in was booked up. This one was nice too - not as nice as the Carriage Inn - but good enough for us. We went out and watched the airplanes take off and land and then went and had a nice meal (read: expensive) at a neighborhood Italian restaurant. We went back to the hotel fat & happy.

See all the day's pics here.