Up and out sharp to squeeze as much into our day as possible. Pick up a Caramel latte and hit Golden Gate Park - just a ten minute walk from Jims place. Pretty scenes. Seen a lake and an enormous bird hiding in the reeds. Kind of like a Herron. Wandered about there for a while. Rose garden - no roses...Went to observetary tower but it was closed. Pretty foggy day anyway so not sure the views would have been any good. Walked to Haight-Ashburry from there, a crazy homeless hippy area with lots of kooky vintage shops. Spent some time browsing around them but refrained from purchasing anything since I lack the money and bag space.

"Hey, you girls look cute. I'm Matt and I'm a transvestite." This is the kind of rougue chat we seem to attract wandering around. Makes for some interesting convos. Went to Almo Square park to view the Painted Ladies. A row a pretty, colourful, victorian style houses. They are famous and a big tourist attraction but really the area we were staying in consisted of streets of hundreds of these type houses. Walked back along Haight street, down Cole street to an area to catch the 28 bus to the Golden Gate Bridge. Luckily the weather had cleared and it was a bright sunny day, even though windy and quite nippy. Stopped for a while, took some photos before moving on. Walked past Fort Mason, Laguna Beach - ridiculous looking houses with huge roof terraces and superb views. Went all the way along the shore to Fishermans wharf where we had been for a short time yesterday. We had it in our minds we wanted mussels and there were so many great looking seaside restaurants. Fired into one of those and got musseled in. Big juicy super fresh mussels. Oooft. Walked up Powell street and along Columbus in search of a Bluegrass bar Casey had spoken about and reccomended for some live music. The Saloon. A few seasoned drinker type locals sitting around the bar and a drunk, old, long white haired bartender. He gave us our beers then forgot to get us to pay...I had to remind him. He was out the game. Music started at ten. Got much busier. Everyone so keen to chat to us, don't think it draws in many tourists! These guys bout us Tequila "shots" (Sorry mum). Never seen shots of this magnitude in my life. They were glasses of Tequila. We were given another glass full of limes and a shaker of salt. The guys shot them down in one. Rhona and I had to go four times....it was pretty embarrasing. Emma Laurenson - at some point in our lives I am taking you to that bar, you're well practised. Maybe you could give tehm a run for their money. We were going to leave pretty sharp to catch the last bus BUT, found $20 on the floor and took that as a sign. Taxi fare. Stay extended. A band called The Bachelors played us some brilliant music as the banter flowed along with the beer. Got back to Jims about 2am, drunk and nackered from walking around 500miles in the day. Pass out.

Kate x