So last week I posted pictures, and considering I took almost 800, there’s plenty more to share. Since in my normal life I’ll be finishing up 3 papers for my April 1 deadline date, it just seems more fun to actually talk about last week.

We arrived safe and sound on Sunday night after a looooooong flight. 2 hours in to the 6 hour flight and I was done. We flew on AirTran, who I normally love, but I have to complain about their plane choice to fly people cross country. The plane had 3 seats on each side of the aisle, but man, was it cramped. The planes I fly from Atlanta to Connecticut have more room on them. My boy and I watched a movie on the plane on my laptop, but the battery crapped out right at the ending. So I read. A book. For pleasure. For more than 15 minutes. It was awesome.

Our hotel was so cool. We stayed at the Adante, and despite driving through a neighborhood of massage parlors and XXX stores, the hotel was clean and quiet. The best part? The rooms. While some were very tiny, the Adante did not decorate in the traditional manner of so many hotels. Each room had a unique paint job and mural bordering the top of the walls. This was mine:

The hotel was super clean, and really cool, so I give it a very high recommendation.

Monday we headed out. We got distracted on our way to the cable cars by this church, which we went inside of for a little while. It was beautiful, but I don’t like how any of my inside pictures turned out.

We then rode the cable cars, got a free ride, and stopped in Chinatown for a bit.

I could so pull off this look….

We had lunch, and discovered that Chinese writing looks very much like how our super pie day waiter Ward writes…

We wandered the streets after lunch, and found this interesting medical place…

Hmmm.

Back to the room to change and bundle up, then it was off to our night tour of Alcatraz. Which was really cool.

View from the boat.

Inside, looking down a hall of cells

A cell

The best part of Alcatraz? The view of the city. The prisoners said this was the absolute worst part of being in the prison.

We took an audio tour, learning of the prison history, the escape attempts, the inner workings, and what life was like. It was fascinating.

On the boat back across the bay, we got to watch the sun set behind the Golden Gate Bridge.

Awesome day. Tuesday? Come back for pictures from Muir Woods and the amazing Redwoods.