Day 3. Time For an Adventure!

Me and Mum start the day off by having a nice sleep in till about 11:30, after having a shower and getting ready to leave, we go out into town and go to the information center in the Westfield Shopping Mall, which is about 10x bigger than the ones in New Zealand!!! and we bought two City Passes which allow us to go to different places and save money!

After we bought that, we went up into the mall and found a nice Adidas shop where I managed to get a jacket and some Skins, I wanted to stay but Mum wanted to go out and explore (sad face) but it was OK, we then found our way out the huge mall and caught two buses to get our way to Pier 39.

Me and Mum walked around the Piers, we walked into the Aquarium and took some photos of the first floor, but the best part was level 3 where we got to walk through a tunnel which went under-water and many fish and sharks and other marine life animals were there to greet us.

After we had our amazing journey through the aquarium, we stopped at the Hard Rock Cafe for lunch. It is an amazing cafe with lots of old photos of previous rock bands such as Jimi Hendrix, The Beatles, The Who,  Nirvana etc. Along with the memorabilia, the food is quite good but I especially liked the Strawberry Lemonade which Mum will know about... They also have an amazing shop where we bought some gifts for my family back home in NZ!

                  B.B. King's guitar







After our time in the Hard Rock Cafe, we got some tickets to the Rocket Boat which was very good, besides the bit where we got wet! but it also gave us a nice view over the city and at the time of day we were on the boat, the fog was just starting to roll over San Francisco. We also got a chance to see the AT&T Park, home of the San Francisco Giants, the Bay Bridge and Alcatraz.

After our voyage through San Francisco Bay, me and Mum watched a 60-year old woman who was doing a circus show. She got a 5 year old boy up on the stage and gave him an instrument that was sort of like a kazoo, she then got him to move his arms around and play the kazoo-like instrument at the same time, very funny as his multi-tasking skills were not the best. She then played with fire, and got two men to hold a pole on their shoulders while she juggled bowling pins on it! Very cool.

We then left Pier 39 and walked up and around San Francisco until we came upon a cable car stop. We waited for about 5 minutes until the next cable car came along. We hoped on and I was lucky enough to get the inside of the car while Mum got the outside and was clinging for dear life when another cable car came zooming along side us.

So that concludes our 3rd day in San Francisco, talk again tomorrow afternoon.

Dylan