After finding a few fun stores and making fun purchases to remember our trip by. I love tea sets, I always have so when Mark started looking at them to we decided what a fun thing to bring home with us to remember our trip by. It even looks good on our orange counter tops. The writing means happiness and long life.
After checking out of our hotel and leaving our bags in the hands of the hotel we decided to visit the cable car museaum. We happened upon the website when looking for things to do and decided to go check it out. It was really interesting and actually fun.
These are the actual cables moving the cars around the city, the have them open so you can watch it and if you go down to the basement they show what it looks like under the streets. It made the entire fact that we had been riding these amazing, you know they are old and called cable cars but they actually are run by cables. The cables are replaced once or twice a year, it takes the workers 5-6 hours which is done during the hours the cars don't run because they replace them all at once.
This is one of the original cable cars. It looked a little iffy to me!
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After the cable car museaum we headed back toward union square to catch a bus to our next adventure. This is us riding the cable car up nob hill, it's a super duper steep hill which the picture doesn't show but we hiked up that thing on our way to the museaum. The cable car employee couldn't believe we had hiked it. He let us stand in the back by him and we got to chat a bit with him, he was hilarious.
We decided we should get some lunch, Little Dehli has some lunch specials that looked pretty good so we decided on indian food for lunch. We used to get this all the time at home but must admit we haven't for awhile, mostly my fault, we shared an order of tandoori chicken. It had the most amazing flavor.
After lunch we decided to head to the California Academy of Sciences. Our city pass came with a pass and we had read amazing things online about it so we figured lets check it out. First off we couldn't figure out how to get there, Mark actually got frustrated by how difficult it was and if you know if you know it takes lots for him to be frustarted. This should have been our number 1 sign to just go on another attraction on our list but we continued on because well we did. We finally reached Goldgen Gate park where it was located. We were both excited about getting to walk through the living rainforest they had. We arrived to find that exhibit closed for some reason, sigh number 2. We walked around and there were some informative things but nothing to great. They aquarium at the bay had been more fun and interactive, this one had fish in little aquariums and you weren't allowed to take pictures. We left wondering if it would have been more fun with Noah, we still haven't decided and it's been more than week so I am going to say no. It's not on our list of do agains. No pictures were even taken there, see it wasn't that fun.
We would like to go visit golden gate park again, when the attractions are open...they all closed at 4 which is when we left the museaum. We did get to see the fog roll in while we were there, it's on higher ground so we actually did see it roll in. It was gorgeous. I didn't take pictures, probably because I was tired, hungry, disappointed in our last adventure and my feet hurt which means I was slightly ornery.
This is where my amazing husband decided he was going to salvage the last evening of our trip and make is ornery wife happy. We headed back to Pier 39, we really liked the pier if you haven't figured it out yet, and had a list of options. First he bought us chocolate, amazing how this makes a woman nicer and makes everything seem brighter around you. Next we decided on an activity, Magowans infinite mirror maze
It was awesome. You'd be walking along and all of a sudden there were 4 of you staring at each other. We did it multiple times, the ticket price of $5 lets you do it as many times as you want, it was funny every time we did it. You wear plastic gloves so you don't dirty up the mirrors to bad and so you can feel your way around. This is on our must do list, with our without kids. Imagine watching Noah run around and into mirrors, the image in my head is hilarious.
After enjoying the mirror maze we wandered through stores on the pier. We wanted to eat somewhere on the pier but could't decide what we wanted so we asked a store clerk for a recommendation, she simply stated chowders. Since it was rather chilly we sat inside but close to the window so we could look out and enjoy the view one last time.
Mark ordered fish & chips and I had clam chowder in a bread bowl. I was cold and it sounded yummy so I had it for the second time this trip. I am pretty sure they brought Mark the entire fish minus the head he had already eaten one in piece when I took the picture. Both dishes were really good,
After dinner we knew it was time to leave downtown and head to our cheap airport hotel for the night since we had a 6:10 departure the next morning. It was cold and we had a coupon for Biscoff so we got 2 hot chocolates for our trip back to union square to get our luggage. They were also good. If nothing else we had good food on this trip.
After collecting our luggae we made for the BART station, the subway. We were rushing to try and make a train in like 2 minutes and this homeless man asked Mark if he had a dollar to change for a gold dollar coin. Mark did so he did than the man was kind enough to help us figure out the machine to get our tickets. Yes he asked if we had money for him to get something to eat, we gladly gave him a few bucks and ran for the train. Thanks to the nice man we actually made the trip and didn't have to wait 45 minutes for the next one. At that point we were so tired we declared it the best 2 bucks of our trip. We took the subway to the airport where we caught a shuttle to the Travel Lodge for a total of 6.5 hours. At first I was like why don't we just sleep at the airport after sleeping for 6 hours in a bed I think it was good Mark was in charge and made a reservation.
We boarded a plane early the next morning for home. We were able to land about 9am and pick Noah up about 11:30. Thanks again to our parents for taking turns watching him while we were gone. It was wonderful to get away just the 2 of us but it was extermely wonderful to see our little guy.
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So fun! We loved the cable car museum; one of our favorite things from our trip. I'm glad you had such a good time!!!!
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