Shouldn’t you buy two packages for the class
A belated update to my trip story. I think when I last left off, it was Sunday night. On Monday we went down to Mountain View to see my parents. With them, we visited some book stores, got some coffee, looked around the Stanford Art Museum and then had a very good Indian dinner. I have some pictures, to be posted later, of one of the sculptures there.
On Tuesday we took a boat to Alcatraz and walked around there for a few hours. Pictures also of that to come. After we got back to the hotel, I was pretty tired from spending the past 4 days on my feet pretty much non-stop, so we just sat around the hotel and watched DVDs. Later in the afternoon, Meg went out and picked up some food for dinner, while I just laid in bed feeling tired.
We were both a lot more energized on Wednesday, so we first walked down to this historic pier with a bunch of old ships on it, although we just looked at the ships from the outside since it cost money to go on them, and there were a bunch of oddly-dressed children running around them carrying a big length of rope. We then walked over to Ghirardelli Square, which is mostly just overpriced restaurants and tourist shops, like everywhere else we’d been in the city. The factory tour was closed for some reason, so that was a no-go. We decided to walk from there to Lombard St. (the really twisty one). This turned out to involve walking up a really long and steep hill, but we did end up at the top of the twisty street, which we then walked down, and then back to the hotel. All of this had used up whatever energy we’d regained, so we spent about an hour resting in the hotel, and then we decided to go driving and see the rest of the sights on our checklist.
This did not go as well as it could have. First on the list was Rainbow Coop, where an lj-friend works, but we couldn’t figure out where to park to go in, so we just kind of drove past slowly. Next was Fantastico, a store we saw on a recent episode of Mythbusters. Once again, there didn’t seem to be anywhere to park, and the place actually didn’t look even half as cool as it did on TV, so we went on. Our last stop was to be in the area near SFMoMA, where we planned to visit that museum, and the Metreon, and the Cartoon Art Museum. However, we couldn’t find anywhere to park there either; the difference was that in this part of town there are plenty of parking garages, but they were all full. Then I realized — Macworld! So not only was all the parking gone, but the streets were absolutely thronged with people, and I’m sure the museums were all just packed, so we just gave up and drove back to the hotel. We went back to Scoma's for dinner on Wednesday night, because that place really is awesome.
We left Thursday morning. I’m going to make another post a little bit later, talking more about the drive there and back, so that’s it for now.
Woah, your parents are living out here now?