KaMaili and Whitney: San Francisco Remembered

For Whitney's birthday we planned a trip to SF to hang out with Aunt Martha and do all the fun things everyone claims there is to do there...

Is there a better way to start off a trip than by eating lunch at a haunted restaurant? We took a the long drive to Moss Beach Distillery hoping to have an encounter with the Lady in Blue...but we had no such luck. We did, however, have a GREAT meal and an even better view of the ocean cliffs.

Whitney and I got adventurous and went out climbing on the clifs overlooking the ocean.

Aunt Martha got us tickets to go see Wicked. It was awesome!!

Don't we look like the typical tourists? On the boat out to Alcatraz.

As we walked down Pier 39 we saw a little shop with a huge sign that said "BIKE THE GOLDEN GATE BRIDGE". We asked about the ride and the lady said the trip is a about 8 miles one way and takes about 1 1/2 hours.

so we said "Sure, that's not bad"

(note: we are usually pretty honest with ourselves about what we can and can't do..not today!)

As we left the shop, I swear they just laughed and mumbled "SUCKERS"!

Items the shop attendent failed to mention:

We are biking into a 50 MPH headwind.

The seat is only comfortable for about the first 3 minutes.

With few exceptions, the trail is almost all uphill

and

freezing cold temperatures + sweating profusely = an irritable woman who can't figure out whether to keep her jacket on or off.

We were quite the travelling duo. Okay, if we are being honest, we looked pathetic! Even the runners were passing us at a high rate of speed. I probably could have walked my bike faster than I rode it. Well again, if we're being honest, that's what I did!

Too bad this isn't our victory photo...only 4 more miles to go!

Ahh, the bridge! Why does it have to be so long?

3 hours later... We finally made it to Sausalito. This is more like our victory photo! As much "fun" as the ride was, we decided to take the ferry back across the bay. Whew! I don't know how much more these bunns of mine could take!

After a well deserved good night's rest, we headed to an amusement park. The animal shows were awesome and we even got to ride an elephant. The extra passenger was a little girl in front of us, who at the last minute, started crying because she was scared to ride alone. We invited her to ride with us and she did!

We headed up to wine country (northern cal) to check out the grape vinyards. They are beautiful! While there, I had one goal in mind...to find a non-alcoholic grape juice. Talk about finding a needle in a hay stack. We went to 2 or 3 winery's with no luck. On our way out of town, we stopped at a little store and we found...VINJUS the all natural grape juice!