Just a quick one...for anyone who may try to ring or message me, don't bother as I have no phone service over here! Anyway, I have created a skype a/c so you can communicate through it. Just search my name. Very late start this morning, just off to brunch now and then some exploring...and shopping for more warm clothes...SF is having a cold snap!! Lou xx

Our last day in SF... A tour of the SS Pamminto, a WWII submarine... A ex submariner volunteer told us it took 4 months to build and that during the war years the US govt built over 200 altogether, most built by women!! Then we hit the Wax Museum and hung out with Jack Nocholson, every US president, Liz Taylor, Joe Di Maggio, Salvador Dali, King Tut and some others! Tonight was my highlight of SF, where I may just leave my heart... A great dinner at the famous Fr...

A big day...Breakfast at the famous Boudin bakery, then we headed to Alcatraz...amazing and the best audio tour ever!! We managed to escape from Alcatraz to head back the streets of San Fransisco for a traditional cable car ride and a huge walk in the city...just like Karl Malden...especially Lombard St, the crookedest street in the world. And a Hard Rock dinner...kids in heaven...now all in bed, planning for tomorrow!!

We left Sydney on Fri morn, and arrived here in San Fran on Fri morn! Spooky!!! We spent the day checking out Fisherman's Wharf and then hopped a double decker bus to see the city and pick out spots to go back to later...the photo is the Civic Arts Centre, modelled on St Paul's basilica and had real 24 carat gild on the dome...then a nanna nap for all after the big flight! Tonight we checked out the sea lions on the pier..they first came here after the 1989 earth...