It's Alan's turn to blog today. Sarah will put her thoughts in red.
After an awful nights sleep of being woken constantly by noise from the busy road outside and the very thin walls, we got up this morning and Sarah immediately began checking the internet for somewhere else to stay. It didn't take long to find a better looking hotel so we packed our bags, checked out and went outside to catch a taxi. They didn't even ask us why we were leaving 2 days early. Maybe they're used to people leaving after only one night because the place is such a dump. The smell of the place didn't improve even though we had the window open a good portion of last night. We were freezing.
We caught a taxi to the Radisson which is just a block from the waterfront. It's much more expensive but also much nicer. The lady at the counter even let us check in 5 hours early than usual which was a bonus.
After that we went out for a walk around the shops and stopped for a visit to the wax museum. There were lots of exhibits in there most of which looked extremely life like. By the time we finished that it was time to meet Jim and Kay around the corner at their hotel. They're the parents of Christie who was at our wedding, and are down here from Washington for the weekend. We all went for a wander over to Fishermans Wharf and stopped with the crowd to watch all the sea lions who've been calling pier 39 home for decades now. Boats are no longer allowed to enter the area any more to ensure the sea lions aren't disturbed. They're loud and a bit stinky but they're also fun to watch.
We continued browsing through all the shops along the pier checking out all the cool touristy type stuff there is to buy. There was a shop with some great Wizard of Oz glass globe things which we liked but I'm sure they would have broken in our luggage before we got home so we didn't buy one. They were music boxes and absolutely beautiful.
We'd barely eaten a thing all day so we headed off for an early seafood dinner which was absolute yumminess. By the time we came out of the restaurant it was snowing outside so we made a quick stop in one of the huge number of chocolate shops around here to buy some late night snacks and then said a quick goodbye to Jim and Kay, until tomorrow at least, before hurriedly returning to our hotel room. Thankfully it was only half a block away instead of having to catch a cable car about 20 blocks back uphill to our crummy hotel of last night. It wasn't snowing. It is about 13 degrees and I like the cool. It has such a fresh feeling.
We'll both be sleeping well tonight.
Trivia for the day: It's the second time I've been here and Sarah's third time and never before have we experienced a sunny day in San Francisco. I believe tomorrow is going to be wet and icky though.
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