BK's Travel Blog: Hills, Hills, and More Hills

This post is coming a little later due to some technical difficulties. BreAnn had a post all drafted and then our internet decided to disconnect and she lost everything. So I am posting this morning our adventures yesterday. We started our day walking down Market St. making our way all the way to the bay near Pier 2. Here we visited the Farmers Market which has some indoor stores and yesterday has outside local farmers selling produce. We stopped at a couple of the tents to try fresh fruit, dried fruit, cheese, and some hummus spreads. We ended up buying some dried fruit to snack on and BreAnn bought a blood orange for a snack. After walking through the market we headed back up to Fisherman’s Wharf and Pier 39 to visit the Aquarium of the Bay, which is included on our city pass. As we walked in I realized I forgot my city pass and that messed up our plans a little bit. Fortunately the guy at the aquarium was nice and let me in when I showed him the receipt that I actually did have a city pass. The aquarium was smaller then I would have expected. Only 3 sections that only took about 10 minutes to walk through, so that was a quick visit. Next what we had planned was to go on the Bay Cruise that took us under the Golden Gate bridge, but the lady there was not as nice and wouldn’t let me on so we had to change our plans. We decided to head toward the crookedest street, Lombard St., and encountered many steep hills to get to it. On our way there we stopped at In-N-Out Burger for some lunch. Next we head toward Telegraph Hill and visited Coit Tower and went to the top for some views of the city. Our next stop took us to Washington Square Park and Saints Peter & Paul Church. After a lot of walking and climbing up and down hills we stopped for some gelato in the North Beach region, or the little Italy of San Francisco. We continued along through little Italy and walked to Chinatown. We walked on through looking at the shops along the way and went to St. Mary’s Square to see the statue of Sun Yat-Sen and then headed out the The Dragon’s Gate. Since by this time we were pretty much back at the hotel we walked back to take a rest and so I could get my city pass. Our evening consisted of taking the cable cars to the Pacific Heights region to visit Pizzeria Delfina for dinner. The place was packed and the food was extremely good. We ordered a Prosciutto Pie and a 4 Formaggi pizzas. After dinner we walked through Japantown to visit Peace Plaza and the Peace Pagoda. We also saw the Origami Fountains and the shops and restaurants in the area. After a long day and a lot of walking we decided to head back to the hotel by cable car. Below are some of the pictures from our day, don't forget you can click on the picture for a larger view.