Crooked Street

I suppose I need to begin by telling everyone a little bit about my trip to San Francisco. I realized I didn't do this in my post from last night....sorry. Anyway, I left last Saturday bound for San Francisco on a business trip. I knew for several months that I would be going to San Francisco and I was really looking forward to it. Jim was unable to take time off from work so I took my best friend Sam with me, which worked out really well. Sam happened to have a free ticket voucher from Southwest Airlines and she just happened to have the same week off from work. She mention to me one day that she had always wanted to go to San Francisco so I asked her to tag along...hell the hotel was paid for by the credit union so she only needed spending money. We kept the week pretty mellow considering we were two girls in a big city alone.

Anyhow, Sam and I had a wonderful time together and even though I was in class during the day we did managed to pack in lots of sightseeing. Sam spent the days studying, as she is working on becoming a certified Montessori Teacher while I was in class. First off, we froze our ass off! I would swear it was October, and I certainly wasn't prepared for the cold weather. You know it's cold when vendors sell winter jackets on every street corner as someone would sell t-shirts in most tourist towns. We did have one day of "warm" weather, Thursday, it was the only day we awoke to a blue sky. Otherwise it was foggy and cold most of the time.

So today I plan on sharing pictures of the Crooked Street in San Francisco. If it weren't for Sam I wouldn't have even known this street existed. This was a sight that Sam was really interested in seeing. So, before the baseball game on Friday Sam I decided to walk to this street. Since most of the streets in San Francisco have extreme hills and this walk was pretty difficult for us...it was straight uphill. I think going down the hill was much harder then walking up the hill. We sat at the hotel for about an hour after this walk.