There's a four-story rainforest there, full of butterflies. It's also home to little poison tree frogs that are almost close enough to lick. Note to anyone planning on visiting, though: get your Planetarium passes early. By the time we got there, all the passes were gone. I was especially impressed by the new and improved Steinhart Aquarium: The fishies and jellies are always a favorite:
Afterward, we headed down to the fish market section of the Wharf for lunch:
Behold the paragon of San Francisco cuisine - fresh, hot, crustilicious sourdough bread (Can you hear the angels singing? Can you?):
And the bowl of fresh clam chowder served in an edible sourdough bowl. I mean, seriously. Don't even get me started:
From there, it was short jaunt over to Pier 39 to check out the sights (I love playing tourist in my own town):
Adam and Steve as mermen...only in San Francisco:
No visit to the Pier is complete without a pow wow with the sea lions. The fragrance is, in all ways, striking and unique.
No visit to the Pier is complete without a pow wow with the sea lions. The fragrance is, in all ways, striking and unique.
We headed to a different part of the waterfront, where a bunch of the old Playland elements are on display. Playland was a turn-of-the-century amusement park on the beach in SF, and, let me tell you...Folks were TWISTED a hundred years ago. (Mommy? Looking at Jolly Jack gives me a bad feeling in the pit of my tummy...):
Anyone who saw the old Tom Hanks movie, Big, will no doubt remember Laughing Sal ("Terrifying Children for nearly a Century!").
"See Susie dance the Can-Can!" (Do we have to?)
"Here's a quarter, Timmy. Now, run along and play with the Opium Den like a good little boy..."
"Safety word...SAFETY WORD!!!"Suffice it to say that one of these afterward would not have been a bad idea:
