The Adventures of Sock Monkey Episode 2: In Search of Blue Stuffed Animal Crabs... Day 1

   Greetings from San Francisco! I actually started this vacation the day before yesterday but I couldn't blog last night or the night before so here we are! I have exactly twenty two pictures of Sock Monkey. In every place including, you guessed it, a sock store. More on that later. Let's start in the beginning. 

   My parents dragged me (literally) out of bed 5 o'clock in the morning on July 3 to catch our plane at 7:40 AM to the City by the Bay. My cousin's uncle drove us to the airport where we checked in and then waited...

                       and waited...

                            and waited...

Finally, the plane came and we boarded. The flight was pretty good and the complementary drinks were nice, too. Got some photos too. See below.

Off to California! 

Anyway, we arrived at 9:55 AM and took the AirTrain to the BART train station and took the BART train to go to the nearest stop closest to our hotel, after a stop by the information center.

The BART trains! To wherever...

The information center. With the i. 

We walked (emphasis on walked) all the way to our hotel.

Our Hotel in California

That's six blocks, minimum. Oh, and here's your potentially useless fact for the day! San Francisco has forty three hills. So if you drive to the Bay, make sure your emergency brake works. Really. But I digress. We dropped off the luggage and then took the buses and stopped by a really good dim sum place. See picture below.

What's for lunch?

Food!! Yay!

Then we took the Muni transit system to the Japanese Tea Garden and looked around there a lot. They have sock monkey-sized everything, from swimming pools to pagodas, from trees to bamboo forests. Everything. Almost.

Sock Monkey's vacation house

Fish. And more fish.

Sushi?

Chillaxin' in the sun...

Then my parents tried to figure out where to go while I checked out the gift shop for the California Academy of Science ( basically a really big science museum with kid stuff ) and, reptile alert, there was a eight-foot long python in the gift shop. He's a Lavender Albino Reticulated Constrictor. Or something like that. Also, his name is Lemondrop, which gives away his color. Is that cool or what? We finally decided to go to the Golden Gate Bridge to walk a little more. Oh, also, just before going to the Japanese Tea Garden, we went to the top of the tower to this art museum. I think its called the de Young Museum and you can see the whole San Francisco from the top. Just say you're going to the top and you get there for free. Anyway, we took the bus to the Golden Gate Bridge and walked about half a mile down, and a half a mile back. We didn't go all the way, because that's a ton of walking. Also, I learned that there is a full-time painting crew that paints the Golden Gate Bridge the color (called International Orange) and when they reach one end, they start painting back to the beginning! That's a lot of paint! But anyway, we stopped by Chinatown for dinner, and then took the bus back to the hotel. I guess that's mostly it, so, questions, comments, whatever, comment board is that way! Other than that, I guess I'm done so, thanks for reading, people of earth and intergalactic space!