San Francisco!

Today we got up at a reasonable hour and headed out to San Francisco to see the Golden Gate Park, the Fisherman's Wharf and China Town. On the ride up I saw Alcatraz and the Golden Gate Bridge from the Bay Bridge. We actually didn't see much of the park, it was gigantic. We just has a picnic style lunch and played some chess, then headed down to the Wharf. Parking was ridiculous and expensive, so we didn't stay as long as I would have liked at Pier 39, but I could probably have spent all day walking the piers rather than the hour and half we had to get to and around Pier 39. Oh well, it was still fun. I also found a portapotty for the picture collection, but unfortunately we couldn't get a good angle with it to capture anything historic in the background. I was really hoping to get one with the Golden Gate Bridge in the background...

China Town was really cool and was another area where I could have spent all day walking around. I had some BBQ pork noodle soup, which was good, but I've had better food at Houston's China Town. The atmosphere was very different though, with lots of fun little shops and boutiques. We wandered into a teahouse and got a 20 min demonstration and sampling of different teas and their benefits for free. It was really enlightening, fun, and delicious.

We got back to Davis about 8:30 and went out to meet some of Dan's friends at the local noodle place. We came back to the apartment and had a lot to drink before deciding that going to a club after midnight was a good idea. Everyone had a good time. The night ended with us getting kicked out of Taco Bell.

My flight is in the evening out of San Francisco, so I'm not sure what we are planning for the morning/early afternoon. Probably a campus tour of UC Davis