Alcatraz….you can get out but you can’t get in

Monday was primarily a travel day. We left Crescent City and made our way to San Francisco. We got to San Fran at about 5:30pm, and because the tourist rule book said so, we stopped first at the Golden Gate Bridge. Although we’ve been to San Francisco many times, visiting the Golden Gate Bridge never gets old. It’s truly an awesome piece of engineering and art.

Now, you might remember a few weeks ago that I rented “Escape From Alcatraz” and watched it with the girls in preparation for our stop in San Francisco. Shortly after we watched the movie, I got online to see if you need to buy tickets to Alcatraz in advance. I thought this was probably unnecessary, and figured you could actually go straight up to the ticket booth the day you wanted to visit. Boy was I wrong. I checked over two and a half weeks before we got to San Fran, and the entire month of July had already been sold out!  So, here is our “visit” to Alcatraz:

This is Alcatraz. If you look very, very closely you cannot see us on a tour. If you squint even more, you cannot see us enjoying all of the history and marine life on the island.

After our non-visit to Alcatraz, we headed into town to find our hotel. We had a place in the Fisherman's Wharf area, so we unpacked the car (shocking, no?) and then walked around. We shopped in a few stores and then went to Ghirardelli Square. 

Shhhhh.....don't tell anyone that they haven't had dinner yet...

We got our ice cream and chocolate fix and then went back to the hotel so that the kids could swim in the pool. While Ashley, Emily and Sherri were at the pool, Haley and I went to get a pizza. Yes, we had dessert before dinner. Yes, we are bad parents. I've already called CPS and self-reported this, so no need for you to pick up the phone right now. 

We ate our pizza and watched some TV and then hit the sack. It was a short stay in San Francisco.