After spending two days wandering about Livermore we decided we should actually go in to San Francisco. So, we used Wednesday to visit the city and relax before driving back to Utah.

Of necessity was visiting the Golden Gate Bridge. Despite the heat wave, it was quite cool and windy in the city, and pants, rather than shorts, would probably have been a better choice in clothing. Our jackets were still in the car though, which was lovely. We went and got them out shortly after taking this picture:

After retrieving our jackets we set out across the bridge. We figured we should at least walk on it. So we walked halfway across and turned around and headed back to the car. It is a long bridge. The wind was whipping in across the ocean and teasing Jess' hair a lot. By the time we got back to the car she looked like she was trying to be a country singer, just compare her hair in this picture to the picture before we got our jackets:

After seeing the bridge we needed to head into the city and visit Lombard Street and Ghirardelli Square. We found Lombard street on the map and decided to start there, since I hadn't remember Ghirardelli Square beforehand and we didn't know where it was. So we drove back across the bridge and got on Lombard Street. That was fun, particularly when I ended up driving down Crooked Street. I didn't know it was there, and then as I crossed the intersection I discovered that the road was now one-way and winding back and forth steeply down the hill. We didn't realize it was going to be happening and don't have any decent pictures, but feel free to Google it.

At the end of Lombard Street we found ourselves circling up a hill to what turned out to be Coit Tower. Yup, it's pretty much just a tower on a hill. The inside has murals on the walls, we didn't pay to go up to the top.

Outside the tower, on the public restroom, was a map of San Francisco and we found how to get to Ghirardelli Square. So we headed there next. Parking is dang expensive down there. A quarter buys you 6 minutes. Luckily we only needed to pay for 15 minutes because metering stops at 7:00pm. Since we were cold we opted for hot cocoa, rather than the world famous hot fudge sundae. We figure we can go visit again when we're actually living in Livermore. The hot chocolate was quite tasty though. I got the Classic Hot Chocolate and Jess had the Sea Salt Caramel Hot Chocolate.

After filling ourselves with incredibly rich beverage we headed back to Sunnyvale for the evening. We dined on Panda Express that night just to be sure that the Orange Chicken in California is as good as the Orange Chicken in Provo. Thursday we slept in a bit and then packed up and headed back to Provo. We lunched at In 'N' Out Burger in Auburn, it was our last chance for In 'N' Out again before we move in July. That concluded our exciting week in California. The rest of the drive back was uneventful.

After sleeping in on Friday I got up and cleaned my room. It much needed it, dust was everywhere. So now it's all clean and ready to begin being packed up.

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