San Francisco

Jake can't knock anymore until he gets fingerprinted, and he couldn't get an appointment today, so since we had a free day, we decided to head to San Francisco and spend the day there. When we were going over the bridge, we didn't have any cash to pay the toll, but we thought we could just pay with a check. Well, they ONLY take cash. No checks, no credit cards, no debit cards, just cash. There also wasn't a place to turn around, so they wrote us up a ticket that we're going to get in the mail for $30! A $4 toll turned into $30. We finally found a place to park and we went to Fisherman's Warf and looked around. We went to Ghirardelli Square and got a piece of free chocolate at the factory and we saw some chocolate being made. It was pretty cool. We saw some seals on Pier 30. Some of the seals were fighting. It was kind of funny how they laid and crawled all over each other. We went to a museum that had video games. Some of them were really old. Jake and I played a hockey game that was kind of like foosball, but a little different. It was pretty fun to play. We payed a quarter to watch a XXX rated movie from the silent era of movies. It was kind of a funny movie, because it was about a secretary and a guy comes in and tries to make an advance on her and she starts beating him up and ends up shooting him. Probably pretty scandalous for the time. We saw a submarine that was used in WWII and sunk 6 Japanese ships in the war. We ate at a nice restaurant in Fisherman's Warf. Jake had shrimp and I ate salmon and we had calamari (it was the first time I had it.) I wasn't a huge fan of calamari, but I think it's better than shrimp. On our way home we made a quick stop at the Oakland Temple Visitors Center and took pictures in front of the temple. It was a fun day. San Francisco was a nice town to visit, but I would never want to live there.