Finally, after 12 days of anxiety, we have confirmed that San Francisco is by far one of the best cities in the USA! To start the morning, we had an awesome breakfast at the hotel, and then we went into the city. Crossing the bridge to hit the city and passing again along the ports of San Francisco, we arrived to the place where the cable cars depart. We had a short tour on the world-famous cable cars and had a real San Franciscan experience. We got off at Lombard Street- the most crooked street in the world- and walked down to the bottom. We had the chance to walk across Little Italy and through Chinatown to finally arrive downtown at Union Square. A lot of us shopped and barely had time for lunch because there were all our favorite shops- Levi's, H & M, Zara, Forever 21...
Then we met up at the beautiful Union Square for a city tour with two wonderful guides who taught us more about the different neighborhoods. We went by the Civic Center and saw the City Hall where MarilynMonroe was married. We saw the hippy area- Haight-Ashbury, and the Castro district, which is the gay pride neighborhood. We also saw how liberal San Fran is when we passed a naked guy sitting on a public bench!!! (Luckily he was far away so we couldn't see very well) We learned that it is legal to be naked here, as long as the person lays a towel before they sit in a public place. This city is always surprising us! We rode all over SF and even went to the highest hill- Twin Peaks- where we could see the whole city. Then we went to another lookout over the Pacific Ocean, which was breathtaking.
After the tour, we headed for dinner in Chinatown. We ate at a restaurant called Chinatown Restaurant... A lot of people tried to use the chopsticks to eat all the millions of different plates of food, but even the Asians couldn't avoid the disaster that we made on our tables. It was a lot of fun!
Now we are back at the hotel relaxing and hanging out with each other because tomorrow is our last full day together :'( It was a really wonderful day and we hope tomorrow will be this good!
Signed,
Karen (Brazil) and Ricardo (Venezuela)
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