If you're going to San Francisco...

...you will fall in love with it!

I did have Internet but no time at all to write in here...so sorry for that. I will catch up on that now ;)
We (Tamara, Olivia & I) started our trip to San Francisco on Thursday. We hit the road in the early afternoon to reach our goal and have dinner in San Francisco. The fastest way to get there is a five to six hour drive through ugly farmers land and large-scale livestock farming. Your hunger for meat wanes immediately!! Not very exciting but totally worth it once we got to San Francisco and ate pizza in "Little Italy". After we were done eating we drove down the Lombard Street (crookedest street in the world) and went to Oakland-just on the other side of Bay Bridge-where friends of Tamara live. They let us stay at their house for the weekend, so that we didn't have to pay for a hostel or something.
San Francisco is so beautiful even at night! I saw a lot of it while we were trying to find a parking spot -which usually takes a long time- but we were lucky and had the "parking gods" with us, so it only took 15 minutes ;)
The next day started at noon, when Steve, Tamara's husband, drove us around Oakland until he had to get back to his hotel. He was on tour with some country singer called "Nick13", who happened to have a concert that night. After we dropped Steve off we made our way to San Francisco over the Bay Bridge.
The first part we saw, was "Fishermen's wharf" with it's beautiful view over the sea, Alcatraz (famous prison on a little island near San Francisco) and a huge sailing boat. Next stations were "Grace Cathedral", a very nice and big cathedral, and "Chinatown", which is a lot better than the one in New York. While seeking a place to park, we saw a lot of nice houses and buildings. And since the parking gods hadn't left us yet we found a good parking spot near "Fog City Diner", where we had dinner. The food there was sooo delicious!! I'm glad I had Tamara and Olivia with me to show me good places to eat. After driving around the city a little bit more, we picked Steve up to have coffee and eat desert at an italian pastry. Very good again...No doubt, the Mugalians definitely know where and what to eat! Sounds like I haven't done anything else except eating :D but it really wasn't like that.
The last thing we did for the first day on San Francisco was going to Steve's gig at this concert I talked about earlier. "Nick13" himself was not really my thing but the woman before him was very good and it was nice to see Steve play the drums ;)
Well, that was my first day in San Francisco!
The second day started with a lot of traffic...trying to get over the Bay Bridge to San Francisco we got stuck for over an hour!! It was already 2 o'clock and we haven't had breakfast...so the first thing we did was eating at "Yank Sing", a very good Chinese place. You don't order your food there...they bring different things to you and you tell them if you want it or not ;)
Satisfied and well-fed we went to "Haight Ashbury", where we met with one of Olivia's friends, who happened to be at San Francisco that day. That part of SF is known as the quarter where the Hippie scene started to get big in the 60s and you can definitely tell ;)
It was already getting late so we went to see the "Castro"-quarter, the gay neighborhood of the City and a symbol for transgender activism, and had a coffee there.
Later that day we went to see the "Golden Gate Bridge", which kind of disappeared in the fog, and the "Palace of Fine Arts". At 10 pm our stomachs craved for food, so went to little Italy and ate pasta.
We got home at midnight and went to bed immediately...
The ride back to Los Angeles was a thousand times more beautiful than the ride towards SF. We took the 101 this time, which runs directly next to the coast but also takes twice as long.
It was the most beautiful ride I have ever had...the landscape was incredible!! I will upload some pictures for you, but those don't really show how beautiful it really was ;) You will have to see it yourself...
100 miles from Los Angeles we got stuck in traffic again so we arrived at home at about three in the morning. I was glad I didn't have work that day, like Tamara and Olivia had^^
Wow, long post!! I hope you guys didn't get tired of reading all this...
You should really see San Francisco some time it's one of the most beautiful cities I have ever seen and will see!

Pictures will follow soon...