i didnt leave my heart in san francisco

umm... i am going to be that person who doesnt like san fran. to be fair to the fair city, i caught her on a really bad day. it was cold and foggy and we got lost multiple times and the people in the part of town we were in were weird. i really enjoyed the touristy things that we did but san fran on the whole wasnt my favorite vacation destination. here are some photos from our short time there (about 4 hours):

we rode a cable car around. first, we got to watch them put it on a giant cable car turn table and spin in to face the opposite direction, then we climbed aboard. we sat right by the operator, which was noisy, but also informative. we got to watch him changing the gears and braking, both of which were rather complicated. he also yelled at pedestrians and was generally grumpy.

we exited the car in chinatown and walked back to rex, who we then took on a jaunt down the windiest street in america. the windy part was only a block or two but the wait to go down the street was remarkably long. there were houses lining the street - i cant imagine having all of that traffic and tourists outside my door all day everyday and not even being able to get out of my driveway without worrying about hitting someone taking a picture of my house for no apparent reason.

we stopped at fishermans wharf and took a picture in front of the golden gate bridge, then drove over it into berkely to see kevin and nikki.