SF: Alcatraz (Day 3 part 1)

Alcatraz!!! This was probably my favorite tour of the trip and the one I looked forward to the most. If you ever plan on going, book it early! I would have loved to taken the night tour (especially on Halloween), but it was sold out for weeks! I think I ended up booking our tour 2 weeks in advance. Every tour includes audio and is narrated by former correctional officers and former inmates...

"Break the rules and you go to prison, break the prison rules and you go to Alcatraz"

On the ferry going to "The Rock"

Guard tower

Indians were the first people to inhabit the island

Isolation

Another isolation unit

The keys the inmates were trying to take from the correctional officers during the bloodiest escape attempt

Typical cell

The dummy heads the three inmates who escaped used to fool the guards

The hole the three inmates chiseled using spoons according to the legend

The pipes the three inmates had to climb to get to the roof

Recreational yard

Happy Thanksgiving!!

SF: Helicopter tour of the City (Day 2 part 2)

My chin hit the floor when Barrett told me he actually wanted to take a helicopter tour! I was super excited and we booked it before he could change his mind! ha ha. It was definitely cool to see the city from a bird's eye view! We were able to go under the Golden Gate Bridge and over and under the Bay Bridge. Too bad there was fog surrounding the GGB, but I guess that is just a normal day for the area.

Our helicopter! There were also two hilarious British guys on the tour with us...

Sausalito...city across the GGB from SF

Going under the GGB

So much fog!

SF Skyline

One lonely sail boat in the bay

Downtown and the Bay Bridge (I think it's 8 miles long connecting SF and Oakland)

Ferry Building

Alcatraz

AT&T Park

Candlestick Park - Where the SF 49ers play

Bonus Picture again! After dinner that night we walked by Boudin bakery and for once there weren't a ton of people surrounding it so we could actually see inside! Can you believe they made that alligator out of bread?!!?

SF: AT&T Park (Day 2 part 1)

AT&T Park aka The Park on the Bay aka the Home of the 2012 World Series Champions. The day we arrived in SF was the day of the parade and it was a mad house!! So visiting the ball park the day after we thought wouldn't be so bad, but there were still a ton of people there stocking up on gear! I don't think you could ever know how excited I was to be at the current home stadium of Hunter Pence! If only he had been there ;)

Bonus picture of the bay bridge! The sun finally came out on our walk back to the ferry building from the ball park and I couldn't miss a great photo op :)

SF: Fishermans Wharf/Pier 39/Ghirardelli Square (Day 1)

The boyfriend and I decided to take a quick 4 day trip to San Francisco! The main reason we wanted to go to SF was to see/visit Alcatraz and the ball park, but we packed much much more into our time there. We left our first day open since you never know what will happen when you travel, so after we arrived at our hotel we explored FishermansWharf, Pier 39 and Ghirardelli Square!

Pier 39 is home to just a few a ton of sea lions! They sure do make a lot of noise!!

It was very hard to capture all the flags out at once...ha ha

The view of Alcatraz from Pier 39

At the Wharf there was an old Navy sub you could tour...

It was very interesting to see how much they can pack into a small space!

Also at the Wharf was the S.S Jeremiah O'brien that you could tour...

It only took 56 days to build this giant!!!

The ship was used during the days of World War II and now serves as a living memorial

This engine room was the engine room they filmed for the movie Titanic! They said to make it look bigger on camera they added mirrors to the room and if you go back and watch the movie you'll notice the mirrors! Crazy!

mmmmm....chocolate!

We all know I'm a little obsessed with chocolate, so all my souvenirs for people just so happened to be chocolate!