21 September 2010 - Tour of San Francisco and Alcatraz

We toured the city of San Francisco today with Urban Safari tours - our guide was Mike, he narrated the aspects of the city including the history.

We saw,

-a restaurant named after a gangsters daughter. The building facade was made from copper and as copper turn green after many years to speed the process up he sprayed the facade with horse urine (gross) so that it would turn green quicker.

- the church where Marilyn Munroe and Jo Di Maggio faked their wedding photos, as they both had been married before they could not be married in a catholic church, they actually got married at City Hall.

- the six sisters, where they filmed the scene at start of Full House where they are in the park having a picnic.

- Golden gate bridge. Including the Fort at the bottom which has hopper's hands. Each year tens of thousands of San Franciscans go running or strolling along San Francisco's waterfront at beautiful Crissy Field to touch the bridge. After 9/11 they blocked the area off to prevent the bombing of the bridge. This westward journey now nevitably ends at the chain link fence next to historic Fort Point, just beneath the majestic Golden Gate Bridge where hopper's hand now are. Hopper is a true San Francisco Hero. He is one of the many golden gate bridge's iron workers that not only risk life and limb each day maintaining the world's most beautiful bridge, but volunteer to save the lives of lost souls attempting to end their lives by jumping off the bridge. There is even for the paws of dogs and dog bone.

- Twin peaks to look at the view which was fantastic, we nearly fell over the edge.

Following this we had lunch in the Castros area and toured some more.

We then headed toAlcatraz for a walk around there. At Alcatraz the kids became junior rangers after completing some tasks.

We had dinner at Hard Rock Cafe and caught the cable car home going past the crookiest street (Lombard Street) and up and down many steep streets of San Franscisco.