We drove to the North end of the Golden Gate Bridge to park our car, then we walked across the bridge and back. It was a 3.4 mile walk. The walk lane was not too big. We had to deal with lots of bikes. The most frustrating thing was the people who didn't follow the "walk on the right side" signs.
After our walk across the bridge, we drove to Muir Woods. We had been to Muir Woods before. My grandfather took Chris & I to San Francisco in 1997. I had just found out that I was pregnant with James before we left. We did a lot of the touristy stuff on that trip, but I was suffering from morning sickness for most of it. Muir Woods was one of the places that I wanted to revisit when not dealing with nausea.
This little deer was not bothered by all the visitors watching.
We ate lunch at the restaurant at Muir Woods and I did not take a picture of that.
Our last timer shot of our trip!
After Muir Woods, we went back to the hotel to recharge. My legs were killing me from all the walking we did that day. So after we rested, what did we decide to do? We walked to Chinatown!
We bought a few gifts for the kids in Chinatown. We didn't have a whole lot of time to wander around because we had theater tickets for that evening. We couldn't stay in the theater district without seeing a play.
We went back to the hotel after Chinatown to change for the theater. We grabbed a quick dinner at Lori's Diner which was across the street from the theater. We didn't have time for anything else.
The night before we were looking for a play to see. The play at Stage Werx sounded interesting and it was just a couple of blocks from our hotel. The play was "Juno en Victoria" and was described as "Jane Austen meets Mythology". It was a very small theater and there were only about 10 people in the audience, including us. But we enjoyed the show and would recommend it to anyone who was in the San Francisco area.
That is the end of Day 6. We did not take any pictures on Day 7 - it was time to go home. We woke up, then grabbed a quick breakfast at another chain - Starbucks. Then we walked a few blocks trying to find a post office so we could mail postcards to the kids. We first stopped at a store that had a sign that said "we sell stamps", but they were out of US ones. The guy at the store gave us directions to a real post office, but we couldn't find it. We also looked online and got directions to another one that did not exist. Frustrated, we decided to try to find one on the way to the car return and airport. We found a post office, but it was closed. I went inside to use their machine to get stamps and they did not have a self serve kiosk. So we had to find another post office, this time we had success. We were able to mail the cards.
Our flight was delayed, but our connecting flight ended up being delayed, too, so we were able to make it. My parents picked us up at the airport around midnight. We headed back to Georgia the next morning.
We had a wonderful trip and hope to go back sometime soon with the kids.
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