San Francisco

Dan and I spent a couple days in the city over the weekend. We walked from the Ferry Terminal to Fisherman's Warf. The weather here is cool, it is the middle of summer but feels like spring or even a warn winter's day in Brisbane. Although the UV is still high (we got pretty sunburnt on our walk).

Here are a couple of photos of Danielle and I in a park near the Ferry Terminal and the Bay Bridge:

Carnelian Room

We had our 1^st anniversary dinner at the Carnelian Room on the 52nd floor of a San Francisco high-rise building. I had forgotten about the earthquake activity in California until Danielle brought it up while were eating dinner (in one of the tallest buildings in town). We later found out it survived the 1989 earthquake! The food and service was great and the view was spectacular, we ordered coffee to make sure we were there to see nightfall (at around 9:00PM!). The Bay Area lights surround the horizon and look great from that height. They look even better when you are flying in by plane, but you do not have the time to enjoy while the plane is making a steep left bank to line up with the runway. Here are a couple photos:

More photos

We did the cable-car and were walking up and down the huge, steep San Francisco hills all weekend (great exercise)... We walked around Chinatown a few times where we came across a some stores selling ?illegal? fireworks.. We should have taken more photos, but were having too much fun (and were a bit lazy). Here are a couple more snaps:

Hills we had to walk up and down to get from the hotel (at the top of the hill!) to get around.


Had to do the cable-car (we were lazy on one trip).