San Francisco: A City With A Lot of Hills

Last Saturday, as the gray skies turned to snow in Salt Lake, Emily and I left it all behind as we boarded a plane and landed in sunny San Francisco. It was a much needed vacation for both of us and we loved our time in the Fog City.

Day One was filled with a lot of walking. Which I completely loved. I feel like the best way to get to know a city is to walk it. We hoofed it to Chinatown (which is amazingly exactly like Chinatown in New York City, just substitute NY with SF on the "I Heart" shirts), then to the downtown area, then up a massively steep hill barred to cars, then on to Coit Tower, where Emily was so thirsty she willingly paid $2.25 at the gift shop for a can of Dr. Pepper. She maintains that it was money well spent.


















This pic is a little misleading, because whenever we were walking Em was always behind me.





































From there we walked down and up again until we got to Lombard Street, the "crookedest street" in America. It really was quite cool. The sun was just beginning to set and the city looked beautiful bathed in the setting sun's orange and pink hues. From there we hopped on our first cable car and checked out Ghirardelli Square. Yes, you can buy Ghirardelli chocolate at Walmart, but we still wanted to buy ours from the Ghirardelli store in San Francisco. We also got some ice cream. The guy at the counter was not helpful at all and we were not impressed with the place. But the chocolate--yummy.

Here we are at the middle of Lombard Street. You can see Coit Tower in the back. Yeah, we walked that entire distance.

Back to our hotel, which was right off the Powell-Hyde cable car line, to rest our weary feet and get some rest for our bike ride the next day...