San Francisco (Day 3)

Our third day on our trip was our chillest of the four days we spent touring SF (our fifth day will essentially be entirely concerned with returning back home). We started out by having breakfast at the hotel, which was still expensive despite having Candace's 50% off discount due to being a Hyatt employee. We then finally attempted to figure out the public transportation system in town, an endeavor which took us around an hour and frustrated us immensely, but once we finally got on our way, we made it over to the Haight-Ashbury district to check out all its hippiedom. This trip began with a stop at Alamo Square to see the "Painted Ladies" - the six Victorian houses made famous on the Full House intro; then, after an aborted trip to Hayes Valley to see a dance music record store, we finally made it over to the Haight proper, eventually checking out the Amoeba Records store there (in addition to the many other hippie/indie stores along the way).

This was followed by a meandering and somewhat confusing visit to the massive Golden Gate Park and then a somewhat desperate return to the Haight for some mediocre burritos at a tourist-trap taqueria. After kinda getting lost on the public transportation system, we happily ended up in the Castro (gay) district and enjoyed witnessing many an assless chap and leather thong. We then returned home to take a nap and ended the night with a late-night visit to a decent (but not fantastic) sushi place, having finally gotten used to the public transportation system after a day of progressively less frustrating attempts to do so.

Overall, this third day was easily the least exciting and perhaps worst day of the trip, largely being filled with stuff that's not all that memorable or that necessary to see (with a few exceptions). That said, I'm still glad we checked it all out, even if only to prepare us for the great last day that laid ahead.