San Francisco - III

For our last day in San Fran, we "slept in" which is anything after 630a.  We caught the morning ferry and headed back to the city.  This was a different experience because we had never taken the ferry with all the commuters going to work before.  It was just a bit more crowded.  We arrived in SF hoping to get on a cable car since we hadn't done that yet.  We had to be at our Alcatraz ferry at 1p.  We took the tram up to Fisherman's Wharf and had In-N-Out for lunch, just to say we did.  It was so crowded even though we got there at 11a.  We sat outside which wasn't too bad since it was warm.

I did Marley's hair differently, and she wanted a picture of it.

After lunch the girls wanted to stop and shop for sunglasses.  This took what felt like FOREVER.  They had a deal going on, so Kaelyn bought three pairs, and Rory bought one.  Rory is a spender, so she's already out of all the money she had for this trip.  :( 

These are her patriotic glasses.  You can't tell, but they have flags on the lenses.

These are her "wear everyday" normal pair.

And a pair of funky to round it out.  I did her hair too in case you didn't notice.

Marley and Logan got little crab magnets at the sungalsses store. I can't remember their names, but they're like bobble-legs, not heads.  

We got to the ferry with time to spare.  This ferry had nicer seating than our Marin ferry.  Otherwise it was the same.  When arriving at Alcatraz, they have everyone walk to listen to an "orientation."  Don't go where the signs say not to and such like that.  They were really pushing the history to make sure people knew this wasn't just a prison for all that time, but I think most people were there for the prison part.  We explored a bit on our own, and then shuffled into a line to see the cells.  You can't see the cells without taking the audio tour.  That means you have to wear a headset that goes over your head and rests on your ears; a headset that millions of people before you have worn; a headset that probably hasn't been cleaned once through those millions of visitors.  I had some anxiety, but everyone else was doing it so...Once getting the headset, we walked up the stairs and pressed the start button at the red audio tour sign.  Apparently some of our family members are impatient and started theirs early, hence walking off and leaving their buddies who started on time.  Eventually Marley the buddy caught up to her other buddy.  Logan and Kaelyn were completely on sync.  Rory was a little behind me, but we all tried to pause at one point and get on the same time.  It didn't work.  Kevin, Marley, Kaelyn, and Logan were ahead of me and Rory, so we just rolled with it. It was an  interesting tour with officers and inmates voices telling stories on the audio.  

Waiting in line for the ferry.

We tried to take a pic of walking into the cellblock, but there were so many people.  We weren't able to take our time.

A part of the tour took us outside.

This is a pic of San Fran across the bay from Alcatraz.

Afterwards, since we knew everyone was ahead of us, Rory and I walked through the giftshop looking at some things and moved on thinking the others were waiting for us.  We walked down the path and eventually got back to the ferry line with no sight of anyone.  We tried to call and text Kevin and Kaelyn, but they didn't have service or didn't answer.  Finally they reached us and had been in the giftshop the whole time.  We waited for them and got in line for the ferry back.  

We tried to figure out whether we should try the cable car now with it being 430p or try to just go back to the park, eat dinner, do laundry, and get ready for our drive today.  We decided on heading back with some disappointed cable car missers.  We tried to jump the tram, but it took forever and then passed by us without stopping because it was full.

Some dancing while waiting for the tram.  In the above pic of Kaelyn and Marley, Marley said,"I'm the guy!"

We decided to walk it.  Right as we crossed the street to walk, another tram came and stopped.  Oh well.  We decided to speed walk to catch the 530p ferry.  We walked from Pier 33 to Pier 1 in 15 minutes.  We got there and waited in a long line to get on.  Luckily we made it.  

Shout out to Kevin.  As Marley's buddy, whenever she wanted to sit outside on the ferry and freeze, he went with her and didn't complain.  They spent most ferry rides outside, while the rest of us were warm, just because Marley wanted to be outside.  

Logan was cranky and wouldn't hold Kaelyn's hand, so she stuck her hand in his pocket.  That's a thing.  Whenever Kevin has a kid and needs his hands for something, he says,"pocket" and they know to put their hand in his pocket.  He started it with Rory, and it trickled down to Logan and Marley, and now Kaelyn too I guess.  

We did our buddy dances on the platform, got back to the park, and it was too late to do laundry.  We ate dinner, and Kevin and I walked up to the Trader Joe's to get some bottled water.  We all showered and went to bed.

Unfortunately, when we arrived back at the RV park, Logan noticed that he didn't have his iTouch.  It was in his short's pocket, and it wasn't there or in his bag.  Kevin went back to the ferry to ask for lost and found but was only given a number to call.  We've called those numbers and no one has turned in anything.  Logan cried for the pictures he had on it from him and Relic as a puppy when we first got him.  :(

The last pic of Logan's iTouch.  :(

Onto Mount Rushmore!