We walked to the waterfront and along until we came to the bottom of Coit's tower which is a tower on top of a small hill which overlooks the bay. We climbed up what seemed like hundreds of steps to the top to enjoy the great views of the bay and the golden gate bridge. The inside of the tower had some interesting murals painted inside it.
We then headed back down the hill(down was much easier than up!) to Fisherman's wharf where we had clam chowder for lunch by the waterside. Had a look round the rest of Fisherman's wharf and saw some sea lions which were there. We thought about doing the Alcatraz tour, but in the end decided that we would give it a miss.
We then caught a bus towards the Mission district of the city. Once there we stopped back in at the car hire place where we had dropped off the car as we had realised that we had left Liz's sunglasses behind in the car. They were very friendly, but unfortunately they hadn't found them. We carried on into the mission district and had a look at Mission Delores, one of the few buildings which survived the 1906 earthquake and fire. It is one of the original missions built by the Spanish.
Next stop was Safeway's to take advantage of my newly aquired discount card and buy the evening's dinner. We headed back to our hostel and dropped off our food before heading off to Union Square to have a look round the shops to see if we could find some new sunglasses. Looked round a few shops and didn't seem to be getting on very well; all the sunglasses were very expensive. Luckily we found a shop called Ross which is very similar to the TK Maxx shop which we have in the UK. They have designer labels at cut down prices. Presumably they are last season's I guess. Here we found some sunglasses which Liz liked at a quarter of the rrp!
Then it was back to the hostel for dinner and an early night ready for our early morning departure for Hawawii the next day.
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