City Walking Tour

Day 2 of our honeymoon involved a lot of walking.  We set out from our hotel, grabbed a quick breakfast at Starbucks and headed over to the Exploratorium.  We thought it didn't look to far on the map, but we were mistaken.  That was quite a walk! 

A few blocks into our journey was the Hyde Street Pier that has a lot of neat ships parked along it that you can tour.  Normally the admission is $5 a person for browsing, but it was National Park Week when we were out there, so it was free.  We figured hey, why not. The joys of having no agenda/itinerary.  :)

We got some decent views off the masted ship.  Technically that day was supposed to be rainy, but it worked out to be quite nice with just a quick afternoon shower.  So we enjoyed some photos with blue skies.

 

We finally arrived at the Exploratorium to let our inner 5 year old selves out to play.  This is a hands on science museum so we geeked out for the better part of 4 hours with a break from lunch in the middle somewhere.  The food wasn't too bad for museum food.  :)

The buildings around the Exploratorium

After we were done playing we decided to walk over to Crissy Field, which is nothing more than a small piece of "beach" (sandy shore) that apparently a lot of wind surfers use to set sail from.  It was like 50 degrees out and I am sure the water was even colder, but the bay still had people out there on the water.  They were all in wet suits of course, but it just seemed nuts to me.

Sarah at Crissy Field

Then we popped over to the Wave Organ which is out on a tiny outcrop of land out in the water.  It's made up of a bunch of tubes that go down to where the water level meets the ground and when the waves move around it sounds like deep organ-ish tunes.  It was pretty neat, but not a show stopper.

Rob at the Wave Organ