The
sun came up over the Bay Bridge at around 0730 as we were just having a cup of
tea and watching Sky Sports talking about the Chelsea vs Man City game later
that day and getting our minds in gear for today’s efforts. Noel felt a little
delicate after yesterday’s treatment but never mind, on with the show.
The Bay Bridge |
By
some chance were put again by the couple who bought an RV in Los Angeles four
years ago and they were now going to drive from West to Eat and back again. So
it was good to chat with them but the other two couples on the table hardly joined
in so it was great to just chat with people who like travel with the occasional
risk.
We
were called to get of the ship at 0930 and walked down in to the terminal and
pointed out our baggage to this big black porter who then whisked us through
and found a taxi for us. We passed lots of what we considered elderly folks
dressed very nicely in uniforms who, it appeared, gave up their time for a minimum
wage for the fun of meeting people of cruise ships and helping them with any
questions.
From our bedroom window |
The
weather is really lovely, bright and sunny and about 19 degrees, so great to
walk about. We then headed down towards Union Square and walked around the
shops for a while whilst looking to purchase a mobile Wi-Fi hotspot unit but
Radio Shack did not have and so eventually we gave up and would look on the web
when we get back to the Hotel. By this time we had purchased our Tram passes
from Walgreens and also some food for tonight’s in room dining experience.
We
came part of the way on the tram but did not worry about photos as it was quite
dark and dark and moving are not good for photos.
A pleasant
evening ensued with Noel catching up with the BLOG, most of the post had been
prepared earlier but with slow and limited and VERY EXPENSIVE Wi-Fi I gave up
loading the Blogs and saved the purchased minutes to do email whilst communicating
with my friends in Austin about Doctors and such like.
All
the photos on our Phanfare blog are now up to date and can be seen by following
this link.
We
are planning a bus tour tomorrow and will look to do Alcatraz Jail on Monday.