The only thing left on the agenda was The Rock. We drove into the city and parked near the piers. A short walk and we were on the ferry to take us out to the island. The weather was spectacular. Warm with a blue sky willed with puffy white clouds.
We took plenty of pictures inside and outside of the prison. Jodi's only request for this trip was an Alcatraz T-shirt...so I got her one! Ask her to show it to you the next time you see her.
We took the audio tour...very nice hearing the voices of previous inmates and guards narrating the tour. There was also a surviving inmate there doing a book signining. We were on Alcatraz for about two hours before we decided to make a run for it. Check out the old convicts to the left.
After taking the ferry back to San Francisco, we were starved, so we found an outside cafe on Fillmore. We each ordered a dish and shared them on an out side table. It was great hearing foreign languages all around us & watching the passerbys.
We had only finished lunch 5 minutes earlier when we passed a Pizza Orgazmica place. We just had to stop for a slice...very nice until we got back to the car and found a parking ticket on the windshield.
By th isw point, the day was pretty well shot. We decided to head to the next hotel so that we could check in and relax. The only thing left o n our schedule is some kind of dinner later tonight. Tomorrow we catch flights back to Atlanta.
Tim, Josh and Mark
Hi “Mr. McMurdo, Sir”!
ReplyDeleteIt seems to me that you had a great time in California. I’m very pleased to hear! Although it was raining, in Germany we usually say that there is no bad weather but only unsuitable clothing. Not sure if this is common in the US as well? Thanks for the pictures and information. You’ve been at places, I always dreamed of to be or to go. I think I now have to wait somes years more to go there.:-)
Short update on “little Schneider”. Katie had a medical check last week and her doctor found out that the heartbeat of our baby is not correct. So we went to our specialist again and he unfortunately confirmed. But please stay cool!!! Nothing to worry about. He assumes that Katie has deficiency symptom of Magnesium or Permanganat or both. So she now has to “suffer” by eating lots of bananas (she hates to) and dried apricots. So everything is okay, so far. I think we’ll talk together next week!
Holger