Leaving my heart in San Francisco...

Yesterday was a black day, with the death of Heath Ledger and Dave Burnett. To lose one wonderful person from this earth is hard enough, but to lose two great Australians is indescribable. My deepest sympathies go out to both families. To the Burnetts, my thoughts are with you. Dave, you will live in our hearts and minds forever.



Hello all!

So we have spent our two days in San Francisco and are now down in LA. While we were in San Francisco, we had a lot of fun seeing the sights, and also experienced some unsavoury aspects of the city too.

On the first full day that we had (we arrived from Honolulu about 10.30pm at night in Oakland and got into San Francisco about midnight...), we headed into the city centre and went shopping at the very hip and luxurious Westfields San Francisco. I went a little nuts shopping, hitting my all time fav Abercrombie & Fitch and a couple of the other stores. The dent in my card was a little bit much for an hours worth hahaha. Moving on, we caught the cable cars down to Fisherman's Wharf where we had a look at some of the souvenir stores and ended up having lunch at none other than the WORLD famous Hooters. Check out the photo lol. We then had to check in for our Alcatraz Evening Tour and went on an audio tour before walking about ourselves. there were some great photos to be taken of the city and Golden Gate Bridge. That night, we had some Italian for dinner and then headed back to the hotel.

The second day we had in San Fran, we woke up fairly late after a late night up watching the Aussie Open and headed into Market St, in the city to once again catch the cable cars, but this time to Lombard St (the zig-zag flower street, minus the flowers cos it's winter). We headed accross to catch a bus down to Hippie Central, Haight-Ashbury where we walked around some stores for a bit and then went down to Golden Gate Park. The girls were a less than impressed with all the Pot smokers around the paths in the area close to the Haight-Ashbury side, so we walked a couple of blocks down to catch a bus to a tranfer point, connecting to get to the point overlooking the Golden Gate Bridge.

Once back in the city, we split up as I had dinner with my cousin and aunt while the others did a little more shopping and watched 27 Dresses.

We are now in a Severe Weather Warning declared LA...so keep you posted with whats happening.

P.S. Daniel, hope you like the photo of the News van on the side of the road. I have some crackers from today, and should have a some other good ones when we go on the Hollywood homes tour.


Take a look at some of the photos from San Francisco: (click on photo...)

San Fracisco USA