I’ve been to San Francisco before, but it was always for a trade show of some sort; which means you pretty much have 0 time to go see the city, as your whole day is filled with manning a booth, going to sessions, or taking clients out to dinner. So when Cheryl had to head to SFO for a trade show of her own, we decided to make a weekend of it and actually get out and see what’s what.
We headed to Alcatraz the morning after I arrived. It was pretty interesting and we got some good photos of the island. Inside is pretty much what you would expect (not really that exciting), but the history of the place is an interesting study.
After that we kinda just wandered around the city, mostly on foot. I think we walked around probably 3-4 hours a day on Friday and Saturday - we were both tired and sore by the time we got back to our rooms.
Cheryl had wanted to participate in that timed honored scam where someone sells you an oyster for $15 to see if you get a pearl in it - so we picked up one of those and got a nice blue pearl out of it. Of course, you can’t just have a loose pearl lying around, so for a measly additional $120 we had it placed on a pendant so Cheryl can wear it on a necklace.
We did see Hellboy 2 while we were there, and that was pretty fun. Good movie, though the theater next to the Mascone Center is kinda sucky - wouldn’t have been so bad if their sound didn’t keep going up and down in volumn (from loud to really loud to really really loud and back down again). I’d recommend the movie, but not the theater.
Some more pictures can be seen here, but my camera was having problems focusing in the haze so I only picked out a couple of good ones.