This past week my best friend and I decided to do a bit a of last minute trip up to San Francisco, which is pretty hilarious if you know us, after 19 years of being best friends this was our first major trip on our own. We booked the 9:30 am flight out of LAX (which they canceled 20 minutes before it was supposed to leave!), but luckily we were able to hop onto the 10:45 flight.
Once we arrived at SFO we were able to catch a ride on those airport ride share vans (only 17 per person) which was the logical choice seeing as how we didn't know how the BART operates and we didn't want to spend a fortune on a taxi. We ended up staying in The Marina area, which was located near Fisherman's Wharf and Golden Gate Bridge, which suited are our tourist needs just fine. Except, it's not too close to the Golden Gate Bridge, which we soon learned while attempting to walk to it (2 miles looks a lot closer than it actually is). Thank goodness for Uber, cause after 20 minutes of walking we gave up and called for a ride!
Our Uber driver happened to be a complete doll who took us to the best spots to take pictures of the bridge, and he even jumped a wall to get my bestie's hat when it blew away! After being on both sides of the bridge we decided to head to Fisherman's Wharf for some clam chowder in a bread bowl, which I think is the most typical tourist thing to do in SF, but it was delicious nonetheless. I can't forget to mention the sea lions hanging out at the wharf! They're equal parts cute and smelly, but are a definite must see.
One of the things we really wanted to do out there was go to Alcatraz Island, but it ended up being sold out until the end of the month. Apparently you're supposed to buy tickets weeks in advance. Tears, obviously we didn't get that memo, but they have a little miniature version of it on display near the ticket box office to tide you over.
From Pier 33 we headed back to Ghiradelli Square because ice cream of course. Not going to lie we were totally expecting it to be the actual chocolate factory, but when we got there we soon learned that the factory was somewhere across the bay. Disappointing of course, but nothing a free chocolate and ice cream sundae can't fix. The chocolate ice cream in this thing has to be top 3 in chocolate ice cream, it's what chocolate dreams are made of. While you eat your ice cream they have a small section dedicated to what the old chocolate factory used to look like, another one of those things that can tide you over instead of seeing the real thing, but they do use real chocolate!
Determined to walk off the ice cream sundae right after we ate it, we decided to make the 1.5 mile walk back to our hotel, which wouldn't have been so bad if it hadn't been so windy and drizzly the entire time. I'm pretty sure we cut our walking time in half cause we practically ran all the way there.
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