San Pranksisco (Day 2)

we planned to head out the door by 8am today but thanks to jetlag, we only woke at 11am. we walked some blocks and ended up in Union Square where we bought city passports each. this we used to get on the cable car to Pier 39. our funny story today:

Prankster on Beach St.

San Francisco is home to many street performers. Our favourite so far is this man who hides behind bundles of leafy branches waiting for some happy wanderers to frighten. Fortunately, we spotted him from across the street doing his act to some other passersby. We had a good laugh! Well, the rest of the day, we basically were typical tourists exploring the city - which ic slowly growing in us.

some tunnel

this tunnel reminds me of a place in... it looks like, and even smells like it. since this is our first walk in a tunnel for a while now, we thought it was worth a shot. at the end of the tunnel was union square.

Fountain on Union Square

Thirsty?

beauty (wink!) and the beast

The park itself is beautiful and mostly clean. It's surrounded by probly a dozen of highend shopping malls. We even braved going into Saks fifth ave and came out alive - whew! There was a woman begging some people for money - but she was wearing nice-looking reebok trainers...

white horse

From Union square, we walked along to Powell station where we caught the historic cable car from. the ride was funny but certainly much easier than last night's walk uphill and down.

Cable Car

This lead us to Hyde Station near Pier 39. We saw this nice horse and carriage along Embarcadero which we thought was quite romantic, until we learned the coach charged $15/ride. Well, we got the better deal in this photograph - for nothing!

junk mail

Kenneth wanted a shot of this line of junk mailboxes. There's heaps of them in the city. ???

uhm... a boat

Alcatraz through a peephole

Walking further along the beach, we found ourselves heading to the end of a pier which offered a great view of Alcatraz Island. Took some shots for you folks.

big wheels keep on turning!

Sail away...

The following shots were taken at the Maritime Museum. They sell tickets to go onboard the ships, but we were quite happy just enjoying the displays on the free-walk:

hoot! hoot!

Nee-nor! Nee-nor!

We got hungry so we looked for some cafe. we ended up at starbucks. we took this shot (Right) of a nice cartoon art along the way and this shot (to the left) too... hehe!

Pier 39 - also known by us as Pier Massive Rip-off If Sucked In - is where you can get CRABS!

CRAB city

More photos at Pier 39:

missing North Shore City

Blokey shop... American Football

and man, those seals, do they stink!

Coit Tower

green Trick or treater on wheels

We also climbed uphill to the coit tower, which is well, a tower. On the way up, we got our first best view of the Bay Bridge (the other less popular but much longer and newer bridge on the other end of San Francisco). On the way down, we passed through a posh-looking neighborhood and spotted this funky looking pumpkin(above). Also walked further downhill through Little Italy, which was also a very pleasent and clean place.

Little Italy

We came home to some holloween-hyped up hostel peepz. They went to a street party which we were gonna go along to (kuno), except I (unintenionally???) crashed into bed before they even got out of the door.

Holloween w/ them hostel peepz

Six hours of walking meant some really tired JAFAs. Ngorrrrkk! Enjoy the photos... more to come.

written by

garcia on November 1, 2007 from San Francisco, United States

from the travel blog: Got 2 see what's out there!

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hey sis! favor - please see if you can print off every blog for the older folks to see. Ta!

written by Joy Garcia on November 2, 2007

oh, okay. coloured ba???? ahihihi!!! i show them oldies nmn everyday pag may bago... but i will try and print them...

written by Jane Pintucan on November 2, 2007

Great photos! Thanks for posting them up; we got to see San Francisco too, through your eyes (camera lens, rather!)! Be well and have fun! We miss you both!

P.S.
Kamusta daw Sabbath nyo sabi ni papa? Met any (pinoy) SDAs yet?

written by Sonny and Grace Ba-alan on November 3, 2007

hi tatay Son and Grace Bunzai! thanks for visiting our blog. yep, too many Filipinos over here. We were at their Central SDA church just this morning. Message was good... but we miss North Harbour. Anjan na po ba Nanay (I mean Grace's Mum)? Hello po!

written by Kenneth & Joy Garcia on November 3, 2007

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