Being a Tourist in San Francisco

Even though we grew up fairly close to San Francisco, we never really did a lot of tourist stuff other than go Pier 39. It was a fun weekend just hanging out, taking the cable car, going to the zoo, walking along the beach, and gawking at the Golden Gate. The zoo is really nice and lucky for us, just about all the animals were out and about, close enough for us to see. They had just about everything there, including two grizzly bears that were sleeping right in front of the viewing glass. Baker Beach has some of the best views of the Golden Gate, and unfortunately for us, also has a population of nude old men. I apologize in advance if any of the pictures have them in it. Oh, and while we were taking one of our famous self-portraits, a naked dude came up and offered to take our photo. If that wasn't weird enough, then he talked to us about visiting Alcatraz and rambled about WWII for a few minutes. We had Indian Cuisine for dinner, did some shopping, and called it a night. Before heading to Oakland on Monday, we stopped by Pier 39 to see the sea lions. It was the 19th anniversary of them arriving at the pier. The sea lions never hung out at Pier 39 until the day after the 1989 earthquake. Then, they started taking over docks and getting in the way of boat owners. In January of 1990, the Pier officially recognized them as residents and gave them their own floating docks. Since then, they have stayed off the other docks and out of boat owner's way. We traveled across the Bay to Oakland to look at the 2010 Burton stuff and then finally headed home. It was a fun weekend and nice to get away for a few days.