Monday: checked in (we booked a place off Airbnb and stayed in Hayes Valley, very close to a tiki bar, coffee, and ice cream made to order with liquid nitrogen), City Hall for bus passes, Blue Bottle Coffee (pretty much a garage in an alley), Painted Ladies, Ferry Plaza for Boccalone(meat cone? Yes, please) and Humphry Slocombe (Secret breakfast ice cream which is cornflakes and bourbon), China Town, grabbed some dim sum from Good Mong Kok Bakery, met some lady from New Jersey who told us her life story in two minutes, pinched my cheeks, grabbed me behind my neck and tried to put her hand in Ryan's pocket all because she wanted to know where to get dim sum around there, stopped by Vesuvio for a drink, ate free chocolate at Ghirardelli Square, Fisherman's Wharf, Pier 39, fun street show by Bob, Magowan's Infinite Mirror Maze where I cussed a few times running into mirrors, clam chowder in a bread bowl along the Pier, Night tour of Alcatraz, late night Ramen at Katana-Ya, and finally back to the apartment.
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Tuesday: breakfast at Plow, tour and tasting at Anchor Brewing Company, cable car museum, rode the trolleys, Lombard Street, rode more trolleys, burritos in Mission, nap, dinner at Woodhouse Fish Co. for crab, fried clams, and $1 oysters, got dessert from Smitten Ice Cream, and then finished the night at Smuggler's Cove which was 2-3 blocks from our apartment.
Wednesday: grabbed some breakfast near by, Ryan went to pick up our rental car, picked me up, drove out to Muir Woods National Monument to see redwoods, waited for the cars in front of us to finish adjusting to park, but then a tree decided to fall on us. Yelled towards a state park worker nearby, "Excuse me! A tree fell on our car!" He left to go seek help or something. County worker named Dale drove by, said he can't cut the tree down. State park worker came back, said a State Ranger will have to come down to write a report and then they will most likely call the Fire Department to cut it down. Dale came back around, didn't think they would have to call the fire department, so he turned into HULK and lifted the tree from the car enough for us to drive it out. Still had to wait for a State Ranger (not a National Ranger because it isn't in his jurisdiction as we found out) to come write up a report. Four trucks showed up to saw the tree part that fell on us into pieces and put it in chipper. Over 2 hours into this whole ordeal, we finally were able to flag down 2 State Rangers who began to write the report. Another Ranger showed up then too. Finally finished with that ordeal and got into Muir Woods, enjoyed the redwoods, had a snack, drove up to East Peak on Mount Tamalpais, and took in the amazing view. We then stopped by the designated areas for photos of the Golden Gate Bridge, went to the Palace of Fine Arts Theater, made the phone calls to insurance and rental car company, rested for a while at the apartment, and then had dinner at Incanto that evening. We tried to grab some more ice cream from Smitten, but they closed by the time we got there.
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Thursday: We wanted to get to the airport early since we had to talk to the car rental company about the damage to the car. We just went straight to the airport and then spent many hours there since our flight was delayed. Finally got home and crashed.
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