San Francisco Vacation

Keith and I had a great vacation in San Francisco and Napa Valley in early September....this post is way overdue...it was our first time on the west coast...we really enjoyed ourselves and will definitely return in the future. Here are a few pictures of some of the fun things we did and saw on our trip.The Painted Ladies a.k.a. the houses from the beginning credits of the t.v. show Full House for all you tv junkies out there. :)

This is a picture of the Golden Gate Bridge from the top of Fort Point.
Here we are about to bike across Golden Gate Bridge.

Me playing around on the cable car. :)
Here is the view as we were biking into Sausalito. It is such a pretty city....this was one of our favorite parts of the trip...biking across the Golden Gate Bridge into Sausalito.

Here is another view as we were coming into Sausalito.

Here is another view of the Golden Gate Bridge. I love how you can see the fog rolling in to the bay.

Here is Keith and I at the bottom of Lombard Street....one of the most crooked streets in the world. We walked down the street our first day there and then drove down it before we left the city to go to Napa Valley.

You can kind of see me at the bottom of the picture. This house is the Real World San Francisco house from Season 3....way back in the mid '90s....it is located on Lombard Street. Again all you tv junkies will remember the season with Puck and Pedro....

We did the night tour of Alcatraz, which was way cool.....we learned alot.

This is the entrance to Chinatown.
Here is another view of Chinatown.

We went on a food/culture tour of Chinatown and visited a few of the local temples. I thought this picture was pretty cool....these are prayers/wishes that people make when they come to the temple. We went to the Golden Gate Fortune Cookie Factory in Chinatown. They make the fortune cookies by hand. We were able to write down a fortune and they placed it in a cookie for us to take home. This place claims to have invented the fortune cookie. We visited the Japanese Tea Garden that is located in Golden Gate Park. It was such a pretty place to visit. The scenery was very peaceful and serene.
We went to a San Francisco 49ers game. It was their home opener, so the crowd was pretty hyped up. Unfortunately, they lost, but we are used to that with all of our Houston teams. We had great seats...and it is awesome to say that we have visited the famous Candlestick Park. :)
We had to go see the famous sea lions at Pier 39. These sea lions are just hanging out and sunbathing while tourists stand around and take pictures of them. What a relaxing life they have!We visited Muir Woods on our way to Napa Valley. Those Redwoods are so huge....it is unbelieveable. The park was so peaceful.....we even saw a few deer walking in the park.


Here a few pictures from Napa Valley. It is such a gorgeous place. We did a bus tour and went to several different wineries and learned a lot in the process.

These were just a few highlights from a our trip. As you can see we were very busy and tried to see as much as we could. I will try to post a slideshow of our pictures for those who are interested. San Francisco is a great place to visit!