San Francisco Girls Trip

We try to do a girls trip to the outlet mall every spring.  My bestie, Kim, moved to California in December, so we mixed up the girls trip and went to San Francisco instead of the outlets.  Kim had been there before, but none of the rest of us had, so it was a fun destination.  Julia, Beca and I got there before Kim and our hotel was on Lombard Street, and so we walked up and up and up to the top of the steepest street in the world.  Here it is behind us.

Kim came in that evening and we walked over to Ghiradelli Square.  We had a lot of fun (really the whole trip) trying to get the selfie stick to work.  Clearly, we are not teenage girls, so we have a lot of selfie stick ineptness.

 The next day, we went on hop on/hop off bus to tour the city.  It was nice in the morning, so we took the top deck

 Our first stop was alcatraz.  It was fascinating to hear the history and tour of the prison.

#alcatrazcellfie

The view from alcatraz island.

 After alcatraz, we went to Chinatown.We went to a fortune cookie factory, which was really a one room shop with a fortune cookie machine. We made personalized fortune cookies and then we went shopping.  It was fun, there were so many interesting things to see.

 Saturday morning, we decided to go up to a nearby forest that has giant redwoods growing it.  We used uber to get a car up to it.  It was pretty rainy, but it was a beautiful drive.  Once we got there and our driver had driven away, we quickly realized we didn't have cell service, so we didn't have any way to get back.

 The trees were quite amazing.

  Tree hugger...but look how big the tree is!

We did find that we had a cell signal on one of the paths. We were able to request an uber driver, then we hurried out to the front of the visitor's parking lot to wait for him.  Unfortunately, he never showed.  We finally figured out that there is a bus that goes back to the city, so we jumped on that.  When we got back to the city, we rode our hop on/ hop off bus.  Unfortunately, since it was so rainy the bottom deck of the bus was full and we had to sit on the top deck.   It was so cold and windy as we crossed over the bridge 3X.  Here is a selfie of one of the trips across.

 Later that night, we went on the night tour of the same bus.  This was the bus we rode.

 After the tour, we hit up Madame Tussards wax museum.  It was surprisingly fun.  Here are some of the fun selfies we took.  This first one is Al Capone.

The last morning, we stopped by the "painted ladies" on the way to the airport.

 Overall, it was a fantastic trip.  We saw some fun things and enjoyed spending time together.