The Groom has never been to San Francisco or seen the Golden Gate Bridge. Since Tahoe is only a few hours away, we decided we had to go see it. It's been years since I've been there so it seemed like a fun trip.
California drivers are the absolute worst drivers in the world. They just are. Are almost getting into an accident more then once from the hipster in front of us, we made it onto the bridge. Which was basically a parking lot. Our 3 hour drive turned into 5 hours. Typical of San Francisco.
The downside is that because of the traffic we didn't make it there until 3:30 in the afternoon, which gave us very limited time to do much. It also happened to be fleet week, as well as a Blue Angels air show. It was pretty jam packed with people and craziness.
We did walk along the piers down to Pier 39. We walked through the packed shopping distract to the back, where we got a good view of Alcatraz. We also of course had to make a quick stop to see the sea lions. I always LOVED going to Pier 39 and seeing the sea lion. They are like giant lazy cats of the ocean.
We didn't have time to go out to Alcatraz, or see Fisherman's Warf which I'm bummed about. But we saw a few highlights. We then went to a fancy Italian restaurant for dinner right by the piers. I'm a snob when it comes to Italian food, but this place was actually amazingly good. Too bad I can't remember the name of it.
After that we drove through the madness that is the city of San Francisco, crossed the Golden Gate bridge and got back to Tahoe about midnight. It was a long day, but very fun too.
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