Enjoying San Francisco

We've been in San Francisco for a few days now and been enjoying ourselves.  Unfortunately we've had pretty limited net so far as the hotel's free wifi only works on the first level and drops out constantly, so its taken me a while to get some photos and posts up.
It hasn't stopped us from having fun though!

On Monday the weather changed and we had rain forecast throughout the day so Yumi and I decided to go visit the California Academy of Sciences at Golden Gate Park.  We caught a bus out there and explored the place.  The CAS comprises of an aquarium, planetarium, rainforest exhibit and national history museum all in one huge venue.  Its the perfect place to hide out of the rain, though we weren't the only ones thinking that and because Monday was also Columbus Day in the US it was also full of kids!  We had fun though - the place is pretty amazing and we spent the entire day exploring it.

That evening we caught up with one of my high school friends, Kirk and his girlfriend Katie, for dinner - enjoyed a lovely meal at a restaurant near his house and drank much wine.  We also got to try one of the popular american dishes, Pulled Pork, which we both enjoyed.

Tuesday was fine and sunny again, so after brunch we headed out and decided to go and visit Sausalito - a town on the other side of the bay that has a feel much like Fremantle.  We caught a ferry there from Pier 41 and experienced why they call SF ffog city.  A huge bar of fog lay just off the coast of SF bay and it was like a grey bar on the horizon, obscuring everything.  We went through it on the ferry to get to Sausalito and then couldn't see Sf on the other side, just the tips of some of the buildings above it.  Alcatraz was completely obscured from both sides, as was the Golden Gate bridge.

Sausalito is a lovely town with nice shops and a relaxed kind of atmosphere so we enjoyed a nice chilled wander around before catching the ferry back once more.  Yumi felt like crab for dinner so we looked up on Yelp to see who was good locally and decided on Scoma's Restaurant.  Yumi had a whole Dungeness crab while I had Salmon on lobster ravioli.  Both meals were delicious and Yumi thoroughly enjoyed her crab which she said was very fresh!
We had dessert at Ghiradelli square after that before catching the cable car home once more - this time we got inside the cab which was a lot nicer ride!

I've uploaded more photos to picasa now so you can check out the last few days.  I also posted a video of Yumi enjoying her crab on Facebook so check that out too if you can :)

Off to Yosemite now.. will post more later!