San Francisco, California Day 3

By Max

10/26/2022

We had a lot of fun yesterday. We started the morning by eating cereal while doing school. Brooke kept distracting me by asking me for the answer to the math problem that she was on. After school, we walked to the local grocery store, Trader Joe’s, and got lunch to have on the ship to Alcatraz. We met up with my dad at 12:15 by the Alcatraz ship. We had to eat outside of the ship loading area because we weren’t allowed to bring food on the ship. We ate our lunch, then got onto the ship. On our way there, we got 2 giant pretzels to share; we had to throw away our lunches before we finished them. Once we got to Alcatraz, we did the audio tour and learned how some people escaped. They dug through the foot-thick concrete of Alcatraz with spoons! We learned a lot about Alcatraz on the audio tour. We barely caught the 2 o’clock ship back to pier 33. once we got back, this guy offered to pedal us to Ghirardelli Square, with his bike attachment that had a seat for 3 people, and we sat on each other’s laps. At Ghirardelli Square, we got the biggest sundaes that I have ever seen. I was the only one to finish mine. We each got to pick out 5 chocolates, and I grabbed 5 milk chocolate caramels. We left Ghirardelli Square and went to the USS Pampanito. Once we got there, we got tickets and went onto the submarine. That submarine held 80 men for 75 days and sunk 6 Japanese ships. We walked through it and saw the crew quarters, the torpedoes, and the main control room. The control room had red lights for toe night workers. There was a giant cannon on the top of the sub. Also, for some reason, there was a broom on the top. We hopped off, and we went back to the hotel. We ate dinner at a place that had award winning clam chowder in a sourdough bowl. I got it ang it was amazing. I’m pretty sure that every single restaurant on Fisherman’s Wharf has clam chowder in a sourdough bowl. I think it might be a San Francisco thing. I don’t know. We walked through a cool sourdough restaurant called Boudin. They had sourdough bears and alligators! We walked back to the hotel and sorted out our chocolates, then went to bed.

TODAY

Today, we are going to drive to our next destination, Monterey, at the Spanish Bay hotel on the Spanish Bay golf course near Pebble Beach!