Honeymoon Trip: Day 6

Friday morning we were in no rush, since we knew we were just taking the BART into San Francisco to explore and see some sights, then have dinner at Urban Tavern, a place where we had bought a Restaurant.com gift card (more on that experience here).

We started the day by visiting the beach in Alameda for a short walk.  It was another gorgeous day, and it was very peaceful at the beach.

Once landed in San Francisco, we decided to head back to Fisherman's Wharf to buy some souvenirs and see whatever we might have missed before, since we had only been there for dinner really.  We were hungry right away, so we stopped into Johnny Rocket's for some lunch.  Excellent decision.  We don't have them here in Milwaukee, but if we did it would be a regular stop for me!  Good food, good prices, and a fun atmosphere.

We had sweet potato fries, cheddar bacon fries, and a hot dog that we shared.

They have a jukebox thing at each seat where you can pay 5 cents to hear your song.  We chose "Rockin' Pneumonia" because it sounded weird.

They also required the use of restroom tokens in order to access the back hallway where the bathrooms are.  I'm guessing this has to do with the allegedly high population of homeless people and vandals in SF, but I honestly didn't see too many around (or at least no more than I'm used to seeing in MKE and CHI).  Anyway, I found it novel and cute.  I'd like to install token-access-only in a door inside my house!

After filling our bellies, we spent some time mucking around the Wharf for a while.  

After that, our next destination was Alamo Square and the Painted Ladies row houses.  We had to take a bus that only came every 30 minutes to get there, and even then it was a bus that immediately ended its line and we had to hop a different version of that same bus... but we got where we were going eventually.

It was quite a hike uphill to get there!!  Once we did, though, the park at Alamo Square was lovely, and it was nice to just sit and take in the view of the city and the lovely houses.

Then it was on to dinner at Urban Tavern.  Since we had to go there to use our certificate from Restaurant.com, we did.  Now I wish we hadn't painted ourselves into a corner like that, because it basically wasn't our style.  Still, we began optimistically...

We liked their horse statue that they have, and the food looked good, but it was too "foo foo" for us, as they say.  We have simpler palates. If you are going to serve me baked beans, I'd like them Busch's style, please. I ain't fancy.

In the end, we ate what we could and tried to make the best of it, but we were glad to be done there.  We just headed home to the hotel after that since we were tired!

Once back in Alameda and rested up, we decided to foray out into Alameda at night for some ice cream.  We found a place called Tucker's Super Creamed Ice Cream.  Nice place!  I could have done a lot more damage there, but managed to confine myself to ordering one scoop in a cone.

Just look at all these wonders!!!!

I would definitely go back there.  In fact, I'd go back to all of Alameda for its own charms.  They have a neat looking theater, as well as some other nice looking local businesses we'd like to sample.  And on that note, I will leave you with these night-time Alameda images!