Bh and I went for a short getaway last last weekend I love such getaways… it’s like a non peak period.. I don’t have to ‘report’ to anyone… we can do anything we want… (BH just need to take leave tt’s all) I can NEVER do this when I’m in SG… I treasure such getaways so much and i wonder.. how many of these times will I have before I got 2 go home ..
anyways, BH and I drove to this airport off site parking – Seatac Park… parked our car there then took their shuttle to the airport.. it was really convenient and inexpensive abt US$28 for 4D, 3N ( compared to taking a cab for 2 of us)
This time we took Virgin America.. wah… really impressed by the flight… the in-flight entertainment is good!!! (Note: Need to pay $2 for earphones. Bring your own!!) Drinks are FREE but no snacks… The plane looks, smells and feels clean and new! 1st time I enjoyed my domestic flight 🙂 By the time we reach SFO, it was abt 8pm.. we wanna tk BART initially to the hotel BUT Bh figured out tt it might nt be safe… so we took a cab. Cab from SFO airport to Downtown SFO cost abt $42 (with tips).. Check in to Hotel Intercontinential and you might wanna read my previous entry on reviews on the hotel
1st day:
woke up bright and early… walked a distance to pick up our rental car… so that we cld go to the factory outlet… okok… like… seattle also have outlets BUT this particular outlet in SFO have GUCCI outlet!!! So we headed to vacaville Premium Outlet
Are u thinking that I must have spent a BOMB there??? well…… u r sooooooo wrong!!! in fact, i didn’t spend a single cent at Gucci coz i didnt see anything that I really really like… BH was like ‘ drive so far here.. u shld get something..’ BUT i just didn’t…
So we headed back to SFO … seriously, I am sooooooo bad with directions… BH wanted to drive thru’ the GOLDEN GATE BRIDGE but i just can’t find it on our GPS.. he was driving and was clearly very frustrated with me.. he was soooooo agitated that when he stopped the car ( at a safe spot to check the directions himself) i was soooooooooo afraid tt he’s gonna roll me into a ball and dump me into the sea… geeez…. so i zipped my mouth and act invisible :X anyhow, we got our directions correct *finally* and crossed the bridge.. Btw, if u wanna travel on the Golden Gate Bridge it’s call US101, need to pay $6 toll!
Below are some pics taken at Golden Gate Bridge park… we were blessed with fantastic weather… though it’s sunny, it’s still really really cold… coz of the wind… grrrrrr….
After which we left the bridge, headed to return the car and went to Pier 39 for the sealions… they are super stinky!!! the kinda stingy smell… yucks… wanna stay there for a longer time.. the smell just puts me off! eeks… we left to have delicious dinner at Crab House at Pier 39
Food was great!! looking at the pics makes me soooooo hungry!! ops.. i didnt take pic of the Tiramishu cake… It was the bestest Tiramishu that I had ever tasted… yummy!!!
we didn’t really have time to admire the views from the resturant or to be ‘romantic’ as we were rushing for our Alcatraz tour on Pier 33…( looking back, it’s so shocking tt we managed to do alot of things on Day 1)
Alcatraz – interesting place… but i kinda feel creepy and scared the moment I entered the place… full of prison cells… we were walking ard the prison with a audio guide… and it was quite crowded… got to know alot of stories via the audio guide and posters on the wall… maybe i’m just not familiar with all these notorious prisoners… most of the time i was like “???” so I got to read up more on this place
Bh and I were super under-dressed… it was awfully cold as the night creeps in… I was so glad to be back in the hotel at night… and we were dead tired
Day 2:
We went sightseeing downdown and this includes the cable car… bought a 1 day pass for US$11, u can take the cable car unlimited times. The wait for the cable car was horribly long…. alot of tourists!! everyone was rushing to sit at the open air front part of the cable car.. heh… it’s really cool to stand on te cable car BUT it’s something tt mum will say NO to!!! haha
I was pretty excited when i saw a ‘Japanese Sweets’ store… love those jap cakes and all.. and we bought some… yummy!!! 🙂
Took the cable car and headed to chinatown , definitely more lively than the seattle’s one.. in fact, it was super crowded as there’s “Mid autum festival pasar malam” haha… bought moon cakes, wife biscults and 4 bottles of XO sauce for like $23!
The day ended pretty fast… had dinner at the downtown Jap resturamt and went to Lombard Street
So that’s for Day 2
Day 3:
Going home to seattle…
took BART to the airport – only US$8.10, takes abt 35mins to reach airport
We forgt to check in the XO sauce… and BH who was carrying it got “detected” … in the end, he was escorted by the officer to check in the bag.. scary sia….
flight reach seattle in the afternoon and we went grocery shopping ..
tt’s all for our trip.. wondering when’s the next… haha…
1 last pic of us to rem the trip 🙂
