Day 3

Yet another tiring day... and I have so much to talk about so I shall go into a bit more detail than the last post I did (Don't worry I wont do the same amount of my dad), therefore it shall not be posted until saturday night (GMT -8)... Today we woke up at about 7:30pm feeling refreshed from day 2. We went to a different a different diner today, mainly due to the fact there was police bikes out side of it and a police car.

When we got into the diner we were seated just in front of the cops, and they were so cool just talking about what they did the day before, you wouldn't get a group of english cops doing that in a diner before they were meant to go on duty.

I decided to have a waffle with fresh fruit and whipped cream for breakfast.. Oh boy, it was heavenly, I recommend all of you to try it out. Meanwhile my dad went for a “leftys breakfast” which is basically eggs,bacon and pancakes.

After breakfast we caught a cable car hoping to walk down “Longbard Street”... However there was a slight flaw in that plan, we didn't check if the tram was going that way and guess what? It didn't... No big deal though because we decided to take an epic adventure that would require stamina from a bull and the leg muscles from a stallion... that's right we went on a bike ride, it was great we took some excellent pictures, I will sum up the route for you;

We Started off at pier 39, then cycled 1 mile straight and go up a 60 degree hill for about 500yards... then cary on for an extra 4 miles to the golden gate bridge, cycle over the golden gate bridge which is about 1 mile (give or take some) after going over the golden gate bridge continue down a very nice steep hill, which took us down to “Sausilito” which is where we got a boat back to what we thought would be pier 39... Another flaw in yet another plan of ours, because it actually took us to pier 1! so that meant we had to bike an extra mile to get back to the bike rental zone. By this time we where already tired and needed to rest our legs.

Overall the bike ride we did covered about 10 miles and at different gradients so by no means was this an easy task... and to make matters worst we had head wind for most of it.

After we dropped the bikes off we needed to get back to the hotel to get Alcatraz tickets which we needed to do an Alcatraz tour that night, so we got a cable car back to the hotel, we quickly got changed, grabbed the tickets and went to catch the cable car back down to pier 49 however we have not had a very good day with cable cars because every time we have used them it has not took us to where we wanted to go, and this time was no different, because we had to walk 3 or 4 blocks to get to the Alcatraz tour place, but we did manage to get there you will all be pleased to know. Haha.

The tour was fantastic but from the prisons on the TV this was not much different inside apart from some minor differences which you will be able to see in the photo's once I upload them.

We first went on an audio tour around the prison and the people telling us about the prison were ex-convicts. The tour finished at 8:40pm and we got back at the hotel at about 10pm or around that time might have been a bit later, but no later than 1030pm.

I had a nice relaxing bath and the watched 2 episodes of “Scrubs” and that's about it really nothing more to say apart from I hope my feet feel better in the morning because right now they are killing me.

Peace Out!

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