Is This a Short Cut to Hawaii?

Who are these seasoned travellers and what is the island in the background? 2 correct answers and you have earned brownie points. We are off on our spring vacation and as anyone who has read Kristy's blog knows, we are meeting them in Hawaii in a few days. If it doesn't look quite like Hawaii, you are correct. Note the jackets!!

The airline offered us the opportunity to lay over in San Francisco for a couple of days and we took it. We have spent the last couple of days hanging out, doing touristy things and shopping for those things that we forgot to bring. (Many things by the way.) We are staying in a Holiday Inn close to the airport and will fly out tomorrow morning direct to Lihue, Kauai.

Yesterday morning we picked Mark Ehlert up at his hotel and took him to the airport. He was down here attending an Adobe Conference. Jenn and the kids are up at our place doing doctor visits and other stuff. (In fact, I am proud of Jenn for her courage in buying a new car while Mark was away.) After dropping Mark off, we made our way down to San Jose (Milpitas) and found the Outlet Mall. It was a bit of a disappointment excepting for a couple of exceptions.

We made our way back up to the airport area and decided to save San Francisco until today. Of course supper was at In'N'Out Burger with burgers, animal style, mine without onions. Late this morning we wandered down to Fisherman's Wharf to see the sites. We were here about 7 years ago, so it was a refresher.

The first picture shows Alcatraz in the background. (I thought the customs guy in Calgary was going to send me there after the grilling he gave me.) Although cool, the skies were bright.




The Golden Gate Bridge is spectacular. We have a great story from our last trip here when Gerry wanted to see the water and we found a beach just north of the bridge up in Marin County. We'll tell you some other time about the nude joggers.











The wharfs are packed with seafood restaurants and vendors. This booth was offering shrimp po-boys, clam chowder in sourdough bread bowls, fresh steamed crab. We sat down and had sauteed shrimp and shrimp creole. They even made my creole without onions.












The last picture shows me and some of my friends sun tanning on the piers. Do you think I spent too much time in the tanning beds?







We'll report regularly.