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Vacation: Day One

// August 27th, 2007 // family

So day one was a bit hectic. When you pay for a cheap rental car from a cheap rental car provider, expect cheap service. I had asked for a Dodge Charger, he told me they only had an Altima, so I’m like whatever, then we go out to parking spot 25 and there is a mini-van there! I check my rental documents and it tells me that I got a Dodge Charger. Whahhuh?

The license plate number on the document matched the Charger in spot 24, so we just jumped in and forgot all about the suckiness that is Dollar Rent-A-Car. And the fact that no Altima’s existed on the lot.

The first thing we thought about was that food was needed and since we were in California, In and Out Burger was THE first place I thought of. We found one amazingly quick and chowed down.

We headed for San Francisco over the Bay Bridge, which was a toll area and had hundreds and hundreds of cars waiting in line over about 16 lanes. I thought I was headed to Mexico or something.

My head was killing me so I took a short nap in our hotel room, which was pretty much a giant walk in closet. It’s a fun little place though, the service was great, and it had a great view of the old buildings around here. One thing I never realized about downtown San Francisco is how much it’s like Manhattan. We took a trolley (or cable car as we were told, even though it didn’t run on cables) to Fisherman’s Wharf, checked out the sea lions on Pier 39 and ate clam chowder out of bread bowls at the Boudin Bakery.

Was a great start to the vacation and today we’re planning on visiting Golden Gate Park and maybe the redwoods at Muir Park.

Here are some pics from Day One:

The tiny hotel room

Pier 39

A sea lion

A ton of sea lions

Mike and Jina on Pier 39

Mike eats clam chowder from a bread bowl

A break dancer does something I can’t do

Jina enjoys one of her favorite things…coffee from Starbucks

Riding on a cable car