After visiting pier 39 we decided to go to China Town for lunch/dinner. As the usual in San Francisco, it was way over priced but really good, authentic food (which of course means that the kids weren't impressed. They seem to prefer the Americanized version.)
After lunch we visited a fortune cookie making factory in a little back alley, which was pretty neat. We didn't have to pay to visit the place, just 50 cents to take a picture! Typical SF style.
After that the kids did a little souvenir shopping, and of course they are every store owner's dream customers. They can be talked into a lot it seems. Not sure where we are going to pack all of this stuff...
Finally we ended the night with the Alcatraz evening tour. We took the ferry over to the island, saw prison cells, spent some time in "the hole", learned about the structure, inmates and prison guards, and heard the story of the 1948 riot by one of the guards himself.
It was a long day, but a successful one. As of tomorrow we will be getting into the ecology portion of the trip, starting with our tour of the California National Primate Research Center in Davis.
After lunch we visited a fortune cookie making factory in a little back alley, which was pretty neat. We didn't have to pay to visit the place, just 50 cents to take a picture! Typical SF style.
After that the kids did a little souvenir shopping, and of course they are every store owner's dream customers. They can be talked into a lot it seems. Not sure where we are going to pack all of this stuff...
Finally we ended the night with the Alcatraz evening tour. We took the ferry over to the island, saw prison cells, spent some time in "the hole", learned about the structure, inmates and prison guards, and heard the story of the 1948 riot by one of the guards himself.
It was a long day, but a successful one. As of tomorrow we will be getting into the ecology portion of the trip, starting with our tour of the California National Primate Research Center in Davis.