Friday, October 17, 2008

The last American Post

Yesterday we jumped on a double decker tour bus to see the sites. We discovered that we had already seen most of the "sites" of San Fran, but we were able to orientate ourselves in the city a little better. It was pretty cool driving across the bridge (literally and figuratively) Tony felt he had to duck as some of the tunnels and trees were a little low for his liking. Sometimes being short has it's advantages.

We jumped out at Fishermans Wharf again and hopped on a cable car which took us to the top of a really big hill. This street (Lombard Street) has a 27 degree slope and has eight switchbacks (hair pin turns) so that people and cars can actually get down the street!

We spent the rest of the day looking at the different suburbs of San Fran, Chinatown, Little Italy, Alamo etc, we also popped back into the Apple store (trip 3) to see the new Macbooks. I have to say that they are really nice, and I could really do with a laptop.. hint hint

Last night we headed to the port for our last dinner outing. On the way we decided to stop into our favorite little store (4th trip) to purchase a Nano for myself. it was time to upgrade from my brick of an iPod purchased around 4-5 years ago, so Tony got me one as a belated birthday present. It goes with my new Nike+ running shoes and kit we bought earlier in the trip. I am really looking forward to trying it all out. Can you all hear the inner geek speaking?

After dinner Tony decided desert was in order, so we headed to a little creamery, no one else was in the shop so we didn't realise quite what we were in for. Purchasing an ice cream has never been so fun. I decided to have an Oreo one, which involved vanilla ice cream, chocolate sauce, chocolate bits, two Oreo cookies and two spatulas to crush the Oreo's and mix it all together. Tony had a chocolate fudge one and you can imagine what his had in it!

Today we are heading up to have a look in the Coit Tower before heading off to the airport early this afternoon. We have had an amazing trip and neither of us want it to end.

We met some Lady's on the trolley bus last night, who told us to "say nice things about us Americans" and to be honest, other than United Airlines staff (not all, just some), we really do only have nice things to say about Americans. Everyone has been really friendly, helpful and nice. The scenery has been amazing... more than I ever dreamed of, the food has been rather hit and miss to be fair, some has been awesome, others not so great (Twinkies are not nice by the way) the roading blew Tony's mind, and the public transport system has Tony stating that we should build a monorail in Wellington on a regular basis!

It has been really interesting hearing people talk about the election and the difference in feeling about it all over the country. I will blog a bit more about this and other American musings over the next few weeks when I get a moment to think some things through better.

See you next time America.

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