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Today we decided to do the tourist thing and go sight seeing. A stop at iHop for breakfast was in order. Again it's still amazing how far you money goes for food. For $8.99 we got bacon, sausages, hash browns, eggs, toast and an apple cinnamon crepe... For breakfast. Who eats that at this time???? Anyways we rather have more food than less!
First destination was fisherman's wharf, Pier 39 where we were able to see some of the famous sights (alcatraz, golden gate bridge). There was a cute kid who was asking his mummy if golden gate bridge had a gate on it that opens and closes and thats why it's called the golden gate bridge. Cute! Haha. We saw the sea lions and got a range of different type of salt water taffy (like buttered popcorn).
Here we were going to hire these things called goMobile which are pretty much gps guided go karts. The deal was for two of these cars for three hours, it would cost $199 however on the walk to the place to pick up the karts, we found a car hire place where for $89, we could hire a Cadillac DTS luxury for the whole day!.... You do the Maths on value for money.
So with the car hired, instead of just driving near the golden gate bridge with the goMobiles, we got to drive ON the bridge! We went on a blind venture and found ourselves going up winding mountains to end up at a beach! How random.
Later on at night we tried to drive and see the 49er stadium but took a wrong turn somewhere and ended up in Oaklands.... At least we can say we've been there!
A late night stop at iHop (American 24 hour restaurant, timberland makes and mention in the song Carry on ft Justin Timberlake... "I'll have you open all night like an iHop"... Makes sense now haha) we ran into cops.
It's not what it sounds like actually they were on break and we got the chatting and they were really cool guys. We got to take photos in their squad car and they told us all their cools stories such as having to pull a gun out every night, their better squad car being wrecked in a high speed chase and receiving a 6 figure salary (seems appropriate seeing as they risk dying every night).
Today we fly to Seattle, depending if Toby and Steven wake up any time soon!! Hurry the F..........
TheLowBrothers
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