San Francisco - Day 2

Having seen what felt like the entire city on Friday, by foot, we decided for our second day to find a more relaxing way to see the city, by chauffeured bus. We booked a tour in advance to do a San Francisco city tour and Alcatraz. The tour started the morning by driving us around the city, through many of the places we had walked through the day before. The driver had all kinds of good information he shared with us, which was really interesting.

The first stop on the tour was at the park right next to the Golden Gate Bridge, thankfully it was a beautiful day and the sun was shinning and there was no fog, so we were able to get some great pictures!

After that the tour drove through some more of the city, including a couple more stops at the beach and a scenic lookout overlooking the city. The tour concluded by dropping us off at the ferry for Alcatraz. We boarded the ferry and headed to "The Rock." I think Mike was secretly hoping he could leave me there, little did he know I had the same idea. It was just a short ferry ride over to the remote island and then a pretty steep walk up some hills to get up to the prison itself.

We listened to the audio tour as we walked through the prison and saw the famous cell blocks and listened to the stories of life as a prisoner on the island. We even got to go in some of the cells. It's amazing to think that three individuals somehow got outside of the prison, if they made it across to safety and are living somewhere in South America today is anybody's guess!

Unfortunately the weather took a turn as we tried to get back to the mainland and the rain rolled in. We planned to make a run for it to get over to the Ferry Building, we were planning to pick up some snacks to bring with us for our trip to Napa the next day. The four of us ended up sprinting in the rain from the ferry boat all the way back down to the Ferry Building, by the time we got there we were def soaked! 

Our run in the rain was def worth it though. We went to the Cowgirl Creamery in the Ferry Building to get some fresh cheese to bring for snacks. We had so much fun tasting all these different kinds of cheese and they were even more delicious when we had them for our snacks the next day!