San Francisco!

On Saturday during my trip to California Dena and I went to San Francisco!

 Our first stop in San Francisco was to get cream puffs.  We took the Bart into San Francisco and got off below the mall.  We stopped at a little place upstairs in the mall for our cream puffs.

I think my favorite thing to do in San Francisco is to ride the cable cars.  We got pretty lucky in line when we were waiting to ride down.  The line was really long, but the guy directing people onto the cable car asked if anyone wanted to stand up on the outside, so Dena and I volunteered and got to skip a big section of the line.  I also had the best view during our ride.  I was in the front corner during our ride, so I could see out the sides and the front down all the streets.  The buildings and apartments here are so neat!  Whenever we passed another cable car one of the men operating it would yell at everyone not to lean out or high five anyone on the other car.  Apparently someone has once been injured by giving a high five.   

 The first place we went to after our cable car ride was the Fisherman's Wharf.

 

We went to an antique arcade that had old games and quarter operated puppet shows.

Dena is really tough.

We also went to the wax museum and met a lot of famous people like Vincent Van Gogh, Steve Irwin, and Norman Rockwell.

Here's me and a wooden Giraffe.

We went into another fancy candy store in San Francisco, but didn't buy any candy this time.  We got our fill of over priced delicious chocolate while we were in Carmel.

I love looking at all the shops in tourist towns even though I rarely buy anything from them.  This store had a lot of tacky seashell boxes, but I did like the shell curtains they had hanging in their windows.

 I can't remember the name of the place where we ate lunch but it was so good! And they had animal shaped bread.  When we were standing in line I saw a loaf of bread that kind of looked like a turtle, but I thought it was just a coincidence.  Turns out it wasn't.  They have bears, lobsters, alligators, and turtles.

 Then we walked along Hyde Street Pier and saw lots of boats.

One of the last places we stopped at was Ghiridelli square.  They give out samples at the chocolate shops so Dena and I went to two different shops so we could get two samples.  We also shared a very expensive but very delicious cupcake.

17 Mile Drive

Before we left Carmel we stopped at the Tor house.  When Dena and I  were looking up ideas for what to do while I was in California I found a picture of it online so I wanted to stop by and see it.  It was built in the early 1900s buy a poet whose name I can't remember.  We didn't go inside or anything, but it was still neat to see from the outside.

The same day we went to Carmel, we also went on the 17 mile drive in Monteray.  The ocean was beautiful and blue, but it was so cold and windy Dena would just stop the car and I would hop out and take a picture really quick at the different stops on the drive. 

 

 During my visit we also went to an Egyptian Museum.  Did you know people in Egypt mummified cats? Pretty creepy! 

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There's a place up Ocean Avenue

Our first big outing when I went to California was to go to Carmel beach.  It was so pretty!  I don't think I've ever seen the ocean that blue before in real life.  It was kind of chilly and really windy so I just ran out onto the beach for a quick picture before we started walking around town.

The town by the beach was really cute.  The old buildings almost made me feel like I was in a little town in Europe.  Dena was nice enough to buy us all yummy treats at Cottage of Sweets.  They had some old fashioned candy and a lot of candy bars from Europe.  Years ago a friend of my went to Europe for the summer and brought back Bueno Bars to share with me and they were so good!  I made sure to get one of those at this candy shop. 

 

I keep saying everything in Carmel was "so cute" or "so pretty" but it really was, just like this little ally way between a few of the buildings.  It led back to a Thomas Kinkade shop, and looked just like something you would find in his paintings.  Most of the shops in town looked whimsical like his paintings with all the flowers and ivy around them.

This shop had lots of fancy tea sets.  One day I want to have a real tea party with fancy hats and dresses, only we will drink hot chocolate instead of tea.

 

In 10th grade I loved listening to Yellow Card.  One of the main streets in Carmel is Ocean Avenue just like in the song!  That was pretty excited for me to see.