Oddly enough, I never really mentioned to most that I was going to San Francisco this week when I probably should have been blogging about it earlier. I guess it was just because I really wasn't all too excited about going. The whole trip was planned around a Dodgers/Giants game at SBC Park, both teams which I couldn't care less about - all I need to know is how my Angels are doing. On top of the game I couldn't care about, we were flying in early Saturday and leaving Sunday night, so it just seemed too short with nothing really to do. Luckily, it turned out to be a great weekend trip and I had a lot more fun that I expected.
Other than getting burnt (yet again at a baseball game this year) while sitting down the third base line three rows back staring at the plethora of Giants relief pitchers used in the game, I had fun at the park. It was pretty cool to walk around the yard and see what's going on and being close to left field, you really can see how very disinterested Barry is in what is going on in the game. And while the new park is nice, it's still no Angels stadium (sure, I'm a bit biased, but Angels stadium is beautiful with the changes Arte Moreno made in the off-season). Most of the time I was sitting there with my PDA out checking on the score of the Angels game, looking for runs before they put them up on the scoreboard in right, hoping the Angels could beat the cross-San Francisco team of Oakland (who, by the way, have one of the ugliest stadiums in baseball from what I've seen).
So while the game was fun, made enjoyable by the guy two rows in front of us, it wasn't the highlight of the trip. After heading back from the game, we showered, changed, and headed out to dinner at a nice Italian restaraunt and then went back to the hotel where we quickly fell asleep. This morning, we got up, headed out to Pier 41 and boarded the boat for Alcatraz. It's been quite a while since I was out on "The Rock" and it was amazing to go back again. We took the audio tour of the cell block and I've got all the pictures to prove it and then we meandered around the rock for a while before heading back to the mainland. After getting back, we walked around for a while and ended up at a restaraunt for lunch that served a mixture of foods. I went with the always-good clam chowder in a bread bowl with some crab cakes on the side and some Mtn. Dew. After that, we then walked up a very steep hill (not hard to find in SF) and poked around a beautiful $2.7 million house on the market and finally caught a cab back to the hotel where we picked up our bags, walked to the BART station, took BART to the colliseum, took the bus to the airport and took the plane back to Long Beach.
All in all, like I said before, the trip turned out to be a lot more fun that I was really expecting it to be and it was good to see San Francisco again as it had been almost ten years since the last time I was there (which I don't remember much of). Alcatraz was a great visit and then walking along the shore down to Embarcadero and then up to Ghirardelli Square was fun. The trip was just long enough to be able to see the sights we wanted (one more day would have been nice though) but not too long where you just run out of stuff to do and get bored. I should be posting some pictures in the days to come as I took about 80 of the baseball game and almost 90 on Alcatraz, so stay tuned.
Oh yeah, the Giants won with a grand slam in the 8th inning, though they lost the two other games to the Dodgers, so they lost one game over the weekend in the standings for those who care. On the other hand, the Angels won two games from Oakland over the weekend and now sit just one game out of first place in the West.
URL: Alcatraz Official Web Page
Other than getting burnt (yet again at a baseball game this year) while sitting down the third base line three rows back staring at the plethora of Giants relief pitchers used in the game, I had fun at the park. It was pretty cool to walk around the yard and see what's going on and being close to left field, you really can see how very disinterested Barry is in what is going on in the game. And while the new park is nice, it's still no Angels stadium (sure, I'm a bit biased, but Angels stadium is beautiful with the changes Arte Moreno made in the off-season). Most of the time I was sitting there with my PDA out checking on the score of the Angels game, looking for runs before they put them up on the scoreboard in right, hoping the Angels could beat the cross-San Francisco team of Oakland (who, by the way, have one of the ugliest stadiums in baseball from what I've seen).
So while the game was fun, made enjoyable by the guy two rows in front of us, it wasn't the highlight of the trip. After heading back from the game, we showered, changed, and headed out to dinner at a nice Italian restaraunt and then went back to the hotel where we quickly fell asleep. This morning, we got up, headed out to Pier 41 and boarded the boat for Alcatraz. It's been quite a while since I was out on "The Rock" and it was amazing to go back again. We took the audio tour of the cell block and I've got all the pictures to prove it and then we meandered around the rock for a while before heading back to the mainland. After getting back, we walked around for a while and ended up at a restaraunt for lunch that served a mixture of foods. I went with the always-good clam chowder in a bread bowl with some crab cakes on the side and some Mtn. Dew. After that, we then walked up a very steep hill (not hard to find in SF) and poked around a beautiful $2.7 million house on the market and finally caught a cab back to the hotel where we picked up our bags, walked to the BART station, took BART to the colliseum, took the bus to the airport and took the plane back to Long Beach.
All in all, like I said before, the trip turned out to be a lot more fun that I was really expecting it to be and it was good to see San Francisco again as it had been almost ten years since the last time I was there (which I don't remember much of). Alcatraz was a great visit and then walking along the shore down to Embarcadero and then up to Ghirardelli Square was fun. The trip was just long enough to be able to see the sights we wanted (one more day would have been nice though) but not too long where you just run out of stuff to do and get bored. I should be posting some pictures in the days to come as I took about 80 of the baseball game and almost 90 on Alcatraz, so stay tuned.
Oh yeah, the Giants won with a grand slam in the 8th inning, though they lost the two other games to the Dodgers, so they lost one game over the weekend in the standings for those who care. On the other hand, the Angels won two games from Oakland over the weekend and now sit just one game out of first place in the West.
URL: Alcatraz Official Web Page
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