Saturday in San Fransisco

Up at 7:30, quick breakfast on paper plates (classy joint this) and then hopped in a cab downtown to get the Greyhound bus. Unfortunately the bus was going be an hour late so we hi-tailed it down to the train station and just managed to get the 9:00 train to San Fransisco.

The train was one of those Amtrack style double-decker ones. It got really packed out because there was a big Giants game on in San Fransisco.

The weather was looking a little overcast but it did clear up although it was quite windy. The train station was in a rougher part of time but once we made our way to the center of town things started to look up.

We got onto one of those hop-on-hop-off buses and did the first half of the tour and then got off at fisherman's pier. The place was packed with lots of attractions, shops and restaurants. We went onto Hyde Street pier. It is a museum with heaps of restored ships and people in period costumes. It also had good views of the bridge and Alcatraz.

From the pier we wondered around a bit more taking in the sights, eventually landing up at the musee mecanique. It has tons of antique penny arcade machines and heaps of classic (and original) arcade games such as Pong, Star Wars, Moon Patrol and Millipede.

Outside of the museum alongside the pier was a WWII sub, the "USS Pampanito" and a WWII Liberty ship called the "Jeremiah O'Brien". These ships only took 60 days to build. Apparently they built them faster then the Germans could sink them !

Got back on the bus for the second half of the tour. It took about an hour. We had a quick look at the Disney store near Union Square and then headed back to the train station to get the train to back to San Jose. The trip took about 1hr and 45 minutes.

We had dinner at the "Old Spaghetti House", the food was pretty good and three courses for only 10bucks ! Then back to the hotel. Might go to the amusement park tomorrow..