We may have just walked through the hood

Had breakfast at the hotel, which is quite handy. We were in a hurry to catch the ferry to Sausalito, a fact that I failed to mention to Melissa. One bus and a short walk later, and we missed the ferry by about 15 minutes. Oops. The plan for the day had been a little packed, so this just forced us to take it a little easier, which it turned out was just fine. The ferry building was redone in 2003 and is very nice. It's actually full of amazingly swanky shops, like caviar and fancy cheese. Anyway the whole area has been redone since it's where that double decker interstate fell down during the earthquake in the 80s and they torn in down completely at some point in the 90s I think. What was the deal with building highways by the water?

The ferry ride across the bay was amazing, and cheaper than the boat tour. Seeing the city from a distance is pretty cool and not being able to see the bridge due to the fog was a good bit weird. We walked a bit in Sausalito and found this Italian-ish cafe for lunch. I really do enjoy sitting at a table on the sidewalk and eating, although I think I got a bit of a sunburn. Spent a little more time walking around some shops, then caught the ferry back to San Francisco.

Having spent as much time as we did in the sun, we were a good bit tired, so decided to just head back to the hotel for a break. Instead of the bus, we took the cable car, since I mean, you just have to. It's really fascinating how the whole system for the cable car works. You feel like you are a going a bit slow, but then you hit the huge hills, and it's like, thank god we're on this thing. It stopped a few blocks from the hotel and on the way we stopped for some coffee. One unrelated side note, afternoon TV is a lot of Golden Girls.

For our evening the plan, as suggested from the concierge, was to head to the Mission district for dinner and hanging out. It's supposed to be the hip area of town. We took a bus there, a bit a longer than our previous ones, and a bit more crowded. When we got there, well, it looked a bit sketchy. There were enough people there who didn't look skethcy that we continued to walk for a bit. There were some nice restaurants and bars but it was mostly crappy shopping places, kinda like what I remember the bad parts of Canal St looking like. We walked about three blocks down, then crossed over a block and walked three blocks back. We maybe saw four places we go in? Yeah, we were disappointed. One of the places that looked nice was this little tapas place, so we went there. Good call. After dinner, grabbed the bus back to the hotel, and after a little TV and Internet, hit the hay.