Today we started our day in San Francisco with a Cable Car ride. It was exilarating! I can't believe how hilly San Francisco is. I mean REALLY steep hills! We walked to China Town from Union Square and had a great lunch at a Chinese restaurant. Then we took a bus to Lombard Street, a famous crooked street. The bus dropped us off a few blocks from the crooked street so we had to climb more hills and more hills! The grade is so steep that this particular area has to have hairpin turns for a car to go down. See the picture above. We walked up the stairs to the top of that, then walked all the way DOWN to the Wharf (some of them ran down for a bit, and that is another picture above). Now my legs really hurt! I am super, super tired! So many hills!
We walked to Pier 39 where we watched what seemed to be hundreds of sea lions resting, loving, nursing their babies, and fighting for space. It was awesome. I got some great pictures and even video of it. After another leftover spaghetti dinner at the hostel, we caught a bus to the train station. Our Amtrak train left at about 10:30pm, and we are still on it the next day, Saturday. Our trip time from San Francisco to Portland, OR is about 18 hours.
I will blog tonight after we get the kids settled in their Rotary Host families for the weekend. We, the chaperones, have the weekend off.
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