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I am going to guess that you figured out that I went to San Fran. It was our first “real” family vacation. Of course I am not sure how the hell we are going to pay for it…Anyway let me get started with day 1, well I guess technically it is day 2 because we really didn’t do anything on the day we got there.

We started the day with a little ride on the famous cable cars…

From the cable car I saw stuff like this…

We got off the cable car in China Town

Then we walked around a bit in the downtown area, I think they call it the financial district. There was a bank building on every corner so this is a pretty safe guess.

Walking downhill we eventually ended up at the Ferry Building. I don’t have a good shot of the building but here is one of the old timey commuter trains that run up and down the water front area.

Across the street from the ferry building is a park area. The water one is some kind of interactive foutain thing for the kiddies to play on.

We walked around to the back of the Ferry Building and get our first good look at the Bay bridge…

And this is where the ferries dock…no real significance, just thought it was a cool pic.

And a boat docked at Pier 39…think I-Drive crammed on a pier, but I had some pretty good chili in a sourdough bread bowl.

Here is the ubiquitous wharf shot…OK it is not entirely ubiquitous cause is has one of them trains in it and stuff.

We really didn’t do anything in The Wharf, but the wax museum was in this area and my kid wanted to see it…please I beg of you do not waste your money on this.

This Coke sign is on the side of The Cannery…think touristy shopping mall crammed in an old factory.

The ubiquitous Ghirardelli shot…well again not 100% typical of the shots I have seen. Something to note here…there is no factory here to tour and we didn’t find any free chocolate. We did however find a coupon for free chocolate a couple days later.

This is boat parked…docked whatever, at maritime museum area…maybe we should have gone over there to learn more about it.

This is what the a typical row of houses looks like. These are located along a street with a big huge fucking hill. We for whatever reason decided to walk up this hill…

Near the top of the hill I turned around and took this shot. This is not the first shot I took of “The Rock”, but it is by far the most interesting.

At the top of the hill…or not even all the way to the top is the famous crooked street.

OK so maybe not the pic you expected, but from the top of the street it is hard to get an interesting shot.

From here we set off to walk to a place call The Palace of the Fine Arts. Looking at the map it didn’t seem all that far, but after a few blocks I said let’s just get on a bus…my wife says no let’s just walk. We ended up walking about halfway there and finally I convinced her to get on a bus. When we get off the bus we pass by this backyard.

Not only do they have a great backyard…they have a great view from their front yard…

This is the Palace of Fine Arts. It is really stunning. Here are a couple more pictures.

Then we road a bus back to the hotel and crashed. We hit pretty much all of the touristy things in one day. We didn’t really explore them but we can say we saw them. So if you want an in depth review of these “attractions” sorry I can’t give it to you, but it seemed to be a lot of souvenir type shops.

Oh yeah sorry for not adding in the clicky linky things…it is way too much of a pain in the ass so you will have to go here to see bigger ones.