Monday, April 5, 2010

Maddeningly Unhelpful Advice-A Guide to San Francisco

My husband, in-laws, and I took a trip to San Francisco on Saturday and I thought I should pass along some advice on traversing the city.

*If you remember from the last time you went to the city that your destination was on the "other side of a big hill"......um.....those aren't good directions. Everything is "a big hill" in San Fran.

*There are two Pier 39s and your GPS will only know about the one in a really scary-looking, abandoned industrial dock section of town not the highly-populated, touristy pier otherwise known as Fisherman's Wharf.

*Which, if you put Fisherman's Wharf into your GPS, make sure you spell it correctly. It is ONE FisherMAN not several FisherMEN. Apparently only one Fisherman at a time is welcome on that wharf.

*When walking along the highly-populated Wharf and you see a shop up ahead on the second level called "Fairyland" (with a painted Fairy and flower next to the words) don't yell out while clapping your hands: "I want to go to Fairyland." That is not necessarily something you want to scream out in San Francisco no matter how happy you are to see a fairy shop (it was closed, by the way-boo!). You might get funny looks.

*And finally, know that people LOVE to honk their horns in San Francisco. We figured it was just people telling us hello and how happy they were to see us.

14 comments:

  1. But what if I DO want to go to Fairyland?
    Hmm...

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  2. OMG! I just dribbled coffee down the front of my shirt, which is not fun in front of a class of high school students! Your fairy advice is priceless - I'm still laughing! :-)

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  3. Haha! Sounds like you had an... interesting time! I love SF even though it's been ages since I've been there.

    Hope you had some nice warm sunny weather!

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  4. lol, San Fran's a cool town. :)

    btw, have you ever noticed that movie directors love to show the destruction of the Golden Gate Bridge? For some reason, if there's an apocalypse or some kind of disaster in a movie, you always get a glimpse of the GGB being destroyed. I wonder why.

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  5. Ha ha! I do love San Francisco though. Great city. :)

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  6. As crazy as it is, it's still cool. Love San Fran and wish it were closer.

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  7. LOL! So funny! I haven't been to SF for a long time. I'll have to remember your advice for my next trip there. =)

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  8. I don't care. I'm clapping my hands and screaming it from the roof tops. "I want to go to Fairyland!"

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  9. HA HA HA HA!! Seriously, this was HILARIOUS! I love SF. Especially the beach. =D

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  11. Nice, nice, nice. :)

    I've been to SF a few times in my life. I loved China Town best. Yum! And you just make me laugh. :)

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  12. Thanks, I will have to remember all that wonderful advice!! :) LOL

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  13. I've never been to San Fran, it sounds like an amazing city! I'll do my best to avoid the scary pier, though. Those GPS units are not entirely reliable... What do you think would happen if you entered in Fairyland?

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  14. I'm totally picturing that scene from The Office where they use the GPS device and end up in a lake.

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