San Francisco: Day Two

After waking refreshed on Saturday morning, we set out to see the Golden Gate Bridge. We took a short bus ride from our hotel, and finally had our first (up close) view of the famous San Francisco landmark.

It was very exciting.

There's a big boat. Matt likes big boats.

After a few pictures, we began the trek across the bridge.

It was a little scary for me to look over the edge of the bridge. But it was also way cool.

At the midway point of the bridge. Matt saw another big boat.

As we made it to the other end, the fog began to roll in. It was a pretty cool effect, and one we're not quite used to here in Denver.

The bridge is gone!!!

We continued walking on the little highway that took us into the town of Sausalito.

Walking on the side of the road.

In Sausalito, I found the house I will someday live in. Or at least vacation in.

Soo pretty. Oh, to be rich.

Sausalito is a very quaint seaside town. And I love quaint things. But we quickly realized that it was a very expensive, touristy, quaint town. So maybe I don't want to live there afterall. But it was still pretty.

Lots of pretty (and probably very expensive) houses.

After a walk around town and a quick lunch, we hopped on the ferry to head back to "The City."

We had done a lot of walking, and we were spent.

Tired.

Also tired.

Walking about 12 miles in two days earned us a nice afternoon rest in our hotel. Saturday evening we were in the mood to take it easy. We enjoyed the complimentary wine our in our hotel lobby:

The closest thing to a wine-tasting that I got on this trip. Yummy Californian wine!

Then we headed out for a long, leisurely dinner at the San Francisco Brewing Company. It was in this cool, historic building with a large old-fashioned bar and a very cool ceiling fan. Of course, I didn't want to snap a lot of pictures inside the restaurant, so I just sneaked one as I was coming out of the bathroom.

Cool.

We were pretty exhausted at this point, so we made it an early evening. We had to fly home the next day, but not until late afternoon. So we had time for a few more sights.