San Francisco

During my vacation, I travelled to San Francisco with a friend. It was tons of fun even though we could spend only a little money. I'm going to introduce the attractions in San Francisco that I visited, with my comments.

• Pier 39

This place is called Pier 39 and has tons of entertainment such as restaurants, a small stage show, souvenir stores, and other fun things. The thing I most recommend you to see is the sea lions. Hundreds of sea lions are lying down on the wooden floats on the ocean by Pier 39. They have caught lots of people's attention, and there is the restaurant named "Sea Lion Cafe".

• AT&T Park

This is the home baseball stadium for the San Francisco Giants. It has a very long history and is famous for the unique shape of the stadium. The right stand is beside the ocean and very thin. If a batter hits a home run (HR) to the right stand, the ball goes into the ocean. It is called "splash hit" because the HR ball falls into the water with a splash. There are lots of people who wait for HR balls on the ocean. I and my friend visited the stadium but we did not watch the game. We just felt its atomosphere and looked at the classic building from the outside.

• Seafood restaurant

There are tons of seafood restaurants by the ocean. It seemed like crabs and shrimps are famous and sort of expensive. I tried a meal made out of tiger shrimp and my friend had crab cakes. Both our foods were amazing tasting and made us satisfied.

• Youth Hostel

The youth hostel we chose cost just 19 dollars each person per day including breakfast. The unique thing is there are 14 beds in each room, so you can see strangers and have to share the space with them. Many backpackers or tourists tend to use this kind of youth hostel, and the price and the system (you can use the Internet for free) helps for their cheap trips like ours.

• Alkatraz

Visiting Alkatraz was the main purpose of our trip to San Francisco. This is an old prison on an island 15 minutes' journey by ship away from mainland. As we were approaching the island, the sight of the old building was making me uneasy but excited because it definitely seemed and smelled like an old prison. Inside the building it was much more like "prison" than the prison I had imagined. It was unbelievable that there used to be hundreds of inmates on such a remote island, and I was lost for words to see a real prison. I started wanting to know more about Alkatraz and bought a book  about it written by an old man who used be an inmate. When I was heading to the mainland, I was feeling like I am going back to the real world. Alkatraz was such an unreal world.

• Golden Gate Bridge

We visited Golden Gate Bridge almost at the end of our sightseeing. I just can describe it with the words "huge" and "great". The sight of the bridge from outside and the sight from the bridge, both are incredible. From the bridge, we could see all of the town of San Francisco and horizons on both sides of the bridge. I had heard that the place is famous for suicide. I looked from the bridge down to the ocean, and the rumor made sense. Golden Gate Bridge is one of the biggest faces of the town San Francisco, and I strongly recommend you visit, not to commit suicide there when you go to San Francisco.

Comments

[Myf (editor)]

Ha ha Keita, your last sentence!

This is a great description of what sounds like a wonderful trip. I really hope I can go to SF too one day, and when I do, I'll be sure to check out the sea lions and the bridge. But I promise not to jump.

[Keita]

Hi, Myf!
I kind of challenged different type of writing.
I'd hesitated to travel such attrative places as San Francisco because of the cost. However, my trip was not too expensive for me, and I could have pretty nice experience.
Yes, I recommend you to see Golden Gate Bridge, not to jump.

[Lina]

Hi Keita! Seems like a lovely place you're staying in. I've never been to Seattle, nor to San Fransisco, but I want to see both of the cities before I die! Oxford is indeed a very nice city. I really love all the ancient buildings here and the people, it's just a lovely mixture. And yes, there is a lot of art, but I haven't had any opportunity to see anything yet.

I guess the layer metaphor was a little blurry. I really recommend you to see the movie, it's great! Oxford has layers because there are a great number of aspects of the city. If you think you know the town, you suddenly realise there is another layer, and so on:)
Thank you for reading my blog! See you!

[Keita]

Lina,

Thank you for visiting and leaving your message.
Sounds like you really liked your city! that's great! You enjoy your life there and you can study hard. It,s a good cycle.
So, I will check the movie Shrek and find out what you meant.
Again, thanks. I hope we'll keep in touch each other.