My last day in San Francisco was actually my first day by myself well some
of it as by myself.
I had a few things to do today, the first pack and check out, then find a
post office I had a few packages I needed to send. My first stop was Walgreens
to find some envelopes, followed by union square as I was informed there was a
USPS downstairs in Macys. Though I hit a problem besides the rain, which by
this stage is really not unexpected. Macys didn't open till 11am and it was
currently just on 9am.
So it was plan B, a quick wander through union square then I jumped the
cable car to fishermans wharf, not the one I put the picture up of the other
day, but the old traditional people standing on the outside cable car. The
hills are fun, and it was a good thing to experience and I also used it for the
remaineder of the day as well
At fishermans wharf I wandered, I knew I wanted a hoodie from San Francisco
as it was freezing and I don't have many jumpers with me. So I wandered the
stores until the rain got to be too much and I decided it was time for my first
hot chocolate of the trip.
I went to Bourdains which is known for its sourdough bread, I had toast and
a hot chocolate complete with whipped cream on top, it was fun people watching
and also watching the bread making process. Some of the bread they make was
fantastic shapes like turtles .
The candy store was a store in the wharf area, this introduced me to salt
water taffy, they are chewy lollies made with salt water, the locals say they
can't taste the salt because they are use to living so close to it, I couldn't
taste a lot of salt when I tried them. What did amaze me was the variety of
flavours some examples include: butterpopcorn, caramel cheesecake, cotton
candy, root beer float, lemon meruigne, cupcake, maple bacon and the list goes
on.
After that I went to pier 39 and wandered the shops, this area would be so
pretty when it is a. not raining and b. when lit up of a night. I ended up
getting my jumper and a tshirt. Also stumbled across a usps place so sent off
what I needed to and continued on my merry little way.
I ended up at Musee Mecaniqe, it is an arcade/museum for really old arcade
games, the games were interesting and covered a range of different games. The
one reason I wanted to go there was a scene from Princess Diaries where Anne
Hathway and Julie Andrews arm wrestle the machine and use the photobooth, this
was where it was filmed and both things are still in the arcade.
After spending some time here, I decided as much as I could spend the day
on the wharf it was time to go and explore the shopping, I hadn't been to the
shops except Walgreens until today. I caught the cable car to the other end and
then the fun began. Sephora was my first stop, though I didn't buy anything and
I know for a fact there will be purchased made eventually. I then explored
forever 21, victorias secrets, bath and body works, and several shoe shops.
Some purchases were made, but not much due to needing to keep the luggage wait
down.
All shopped out I headed back, the city was slowly getting quieter as the
play off was on and being played at candlestick park. I ran into Amanda again
who wanted to check out an old style diner we had stumbled across the day
before, so I decided to join her.
Loris diner was everything you would expect it to be, completely adorable
the bar seating, little booths, the fun music playing. We both ordered burgers
again, they were much better than in-n-out, but as always huge and I couldn't
finish it. I did love however that it came with sweet potato fries.
It was then time to farewell San Francisco... slowly very slowly. The
traffic was terrible, with everyone leaving candlestick park after the game. My
pick up time was 8pm I arrived at the airport closer to 10pm. The airport was
ful of NY Giants fans stressing they were going to miss their flights as the
game went into overtime, and security was going so slow. This was also my first
experience of the body scanner machines, though it ended in a pat down. They
didn't like the zippers on my trackpants and flagged them as potential danger.
Then the fun begins, the flight is delayed. The plane is ready, the piolt
is set but we have no crew, they are delayed on their incoming flight so we
have to wait for them. The flight is full and we run out of room for all the
cabin baggage, so it becomes extra squishy with bags shoved under seats.
I couldn't sleep on the flight I was really hot and uncomfortable but I did
get to watch some impressive lightening happening around us as we flew, the
plane also had free satelite tv so I got to watch some tv and even the news
couldn't put me to sleep. The delay meant I missed my connecting flight by 5
mins - we managed to make up a lot of time in the air. Alot of people missed
their connections as well, this is where I learnt that politeness and
understanding pay off. I was upgraded on my connecting flight to first class.
So I am typing this from the gate waiting for my new connecting flight, I
can't wait to arrive and get checked in and hopefully have a room, try and
power nap before I hit the parks.
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