The Presidio

Our plan for Saturday was to explore the Presidio. The Presidio is an area of land just around where the Golden Gate Bridge meets San Francisco that used to serve as an army post. There's a lot to do and see around the area and we barely scratched the surface in one whole day.

We started off by walking around the Palace of Fine Arts. It was built by the Panama-Pacific International Exposition for the 1915 world's fair. The golden dome (which unfortunately you can't see very well in these pictures) was huge. And for those who like to talk like Donald Trump, make sure to pronounce it with the "h" please.

You can tell how big it was... Joe looks so small!

There was a manmade lake around the buildings that were home to lots of swans, ducks and turtles.

Next on our list was the Exploratorium which was right next to the Palace of Fine Arts. There are something like 650 exhibits that you can play with and interact with. I enjoyed taking goofy pictures with Joe as we might have been the only people our age there without kids.

Next we wanted to check out the Wave Organ that was located on a jetty past the Golden Gate Yacht Club. It's a really neat wave activated acoustic sculpture. You can hear the waves when you put your ear up to these tubes.

We sat along the trail next to the beach. There was some sort of sailing/kite boarding/something we've never seen before competition going on. There were a ton of people there and it was pretty neat to watch even though we really had no idea who was winning.

We walked down the trail in Crissy Field and there were lots of people walking, running, biking, etc. We went all the way to the warming hut. I read about this in one of our books and wanted to check it out. It was pretty close to the Golden Gate Bridge and you could buy coffee or souvenirs. The name is perfect beacuse the wind around the bay made it pretty cold outside.

Of course we had a great view of the bridge from here.

Getting to the Presidio turned out to be pretty easy with the bus system. I'd like to think we're figuring it out pretty well. The ride back was full because there was a Giant's game that night and we live pretty close to the ball park. At least we got a seat before lots of people got on.