USA Day 4 innit

Sunday 17th.
Today we walked to Pier 33, bought tickets for Alcatraz, then spent the time waiting at Pier 39 which is a mini shopping

arcade, it was quite nice, we then walked back to pier 33 and took the ferry to Alcatraz, and enjoyed the tour, those

cells were tiny! Even more so once you had belongings in them. The audio tour was very informative, and the whole

experience was enjoyable. Once we got back to Per 33, we decided to walk to the Golden Gate Bridge, it only looked a

couple of miles on the map. It wasn't. By the time we got there I was very very grumpy at the slight sunburn I had, plus

how much my feet ached due to walking in my Reef flip-flops (I'm still not calling them Thongs) and my knee was playing

up again. We eventually got there at about 18:30, having left Pier 33 at 15:00ish, we'd left the motel at 10:00 so we

could walk along Lombard St on the way and take pictures of the crookedest street as it's now known, you know the part

I'm on about, it zig-zags down a hill and was in the Herbie film :) we then walked all the way back to the Motel for

20:30 to grab the car to drive to Golden Gate Park, a park 9 miles long with roads in it and nowhere near the bridge! it

was dark by then, so we did a little tour and headed to the coast for an "in N out burger" which we'd been told was the

best fast food outlet as they cook it fresh. I personally loved their menu which consisted of the following.
"Hamburger"
"Cheeseburger"
"Double Double" (Two burgers and slices of cheese in a bun)
"Combo"
Combo was any of the above with CHIPS (fries) and a drink.

That's it. That's the menu. Simple as. Loved it. THe burger was rather good too. :)

Despite the pain and frustration, I loved San Francisco, it's a great place, totally great, we didn't see any of the gay

parts, which would've been interesting to see the whole culture of city, but what we did go round and see was nice. They

also have the best radio station ever on 104.1 who have a 'hate at 8'section where people call up, say what they hate and

what song they love and it gets played, unless you're the woman who called up hating Linkin Park, and got demolished by

the DJ, telling her she's wrong, then she tried to sing, to which he said, "Wow, you're a great singer, you should go on

American Idol" very mockingly, she, being American and not understanding sarcasm said "thank you" his retort? "shut up"

and cut her off, not a moment too soon for my liking either. Other than that the station played top music all day, some

new stuff, some old stuff, an interview with Green Day about the new album, just generally good good stuff.