San Francisco, California Day 2

By Max

10/25/22

          Yesterday, we did a lot. First, Alisa (youngest sister, 5 years old) woke me up at 3:40. I fell back asleep and woke up at 7. We went to this cool courtyard in the middle of the hotel that had foam ping pong balls. After school, I played bags with Brooke (oldest sister, 9 years old), and won. We then met up with my dad, who had been working and working out. We took cable cars to Chinatown, and I got to ride hanging on to the outside. Once we got to Chinatown, we got lunch at a nice little Chinese place. I couldn’t understand half of what the lady was saying, but I’m pretty sure that she said that the people at the table next to us were eating cow tail. We got a few different Chinese foods, and my favorite was the Mongolian beef. After that, we went to a fortune cookie place. We were about to go in, but then we heard people fighting (yelling, not smacking). We walked away until the fighting people left, and then entered. Once we got in, a lady handed us warm flat fortune cookies. They were so good! They also had GIANT fortune cookies that were like a foot long and a foot wide. They were enormous! Each one costed 9 bucks. We got a 12 pack of frosting covered fortune cookies, and the lady scooped us a bunch of flat ones along with them. Then, we called an uber and went to the Alcatraz ferries. Once we got there, we found out that we were literally 4 MINUTES LATE for the last ferry of the day. So, instead, we went to a bike rental shop and rented bikes. Alisa and Hailey (middle sister, 8 years old) got these cool little attachments to my parents’ bikes. The attachments went on the back of their bikes and had one wheel—my parents’ back wheels acted as my sisters’ front wheels– handlebars, and pedals. Hailey went with my mom, and Alisa went with my dad. We went on an 8-mile bike ride, but I tracked it on my watch, and it was 8.5 miles. We went up a couple tough hills, but it was fun coming down them. But the whole reason that we did it was because it went over the Golden Gate Bridge. There were a lot of amazing views, and I looked over the edge of the bridge. It was kinda scary. We ended the ride at a town called Sausalito and took a ferry back, but my dad bought the wrong tickets. We went to pier 41 I think, but in the end, it was better because we got to see more of San Francisco, and then also it was a 1.65-mile bike ride back to the bike shop. If you do the math, then we did a 10-mile bike ride. It was a great ride. We then went back to the hotel and got changed for dinner. Don’t worry, it was too cold to sweat, and we weren’t going at a difficult pace. We went to dinner at a place called Scoma’s. they had super fresh seafood. We watched a guy cut up black cod, and I’m pretty sure that it was the one that I ate. We were going to go to Ghirardelli square for dessert, but Alisa got tired, and it was too late. We came back to the hotel and ate fortune cookies, and that was the end of our day.

TODAY

              Today, we are planning on going to Alcatraz, Ghirardelli square, and maybe visit the submarine.