Day 7 of October

Take a deep breath.  There are only 5 or 6 days left of this holiday blog. (I know I'm thinking, thank goodness)

LA, Disneyland, San Francisco, Vancouver, Victoria, Madonna Vacation
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Day 8
Wednesday, September 26th
  We slept in a little bit longer today.  Could have been for a couple of reasons:  all the fresh air from the day before, or all the hill walking, or the car alarm that went off around two a.m. right below our window.  It woke me with a start, and my first thought was "is someone trying to break into our rental car?"  Once I came to my senses, I remembered that we didn't have a rental car, so I just laid back and waited, and waited for the alarm to stop.
    After breakfast, we made our way back down to the water front.  We decided to take an open top bus tour.  It was a 24 hour, hop on, hop off tour. 

We stayed on the bus for the entire 2 1/2 hour tour.  You just plugged in your ear phones and the tour was narrated.  It took us throught the financial district, Chinatown,

Little Italy, the Tenderloin district; we even seen a famous record store, or at least famous to Bill.  Its called Amoeba Music:  (Born in 1990 in Berkeley, California, Amoeba Music is inspired by many of the great independent record stores. We stock everything -- from the most popular artists to the most obscure in all genres -- including jazz, international folk and popular music, roots music, classical music, all kinds of rock and soul music, just to name a few of the most obvious categories.)

We also went across the Golden Gate Bridge and back again,

 We sat up on the open top of the bus for the entire time.  It was soo cold and windy as we approached the Golden Gate bridge.  We had planned to get off and walk across the bridge, but by now we were freezing and waiting for another bus didn't appeal to us. 

Our saying in Calgary is "if you don't like the weather, just wait a couple of minutes."  In San Francisco, the saying is "If you don't like the weather, just move a couple of blocks".   In addition to all the unique sites we seen off the bus, there were a couple of unique sites on the bus.

We departed the bus down by the pier and made our way to a hidden little Mexican restaurant and tequila bar called Las Marguerites. 

We had come across this place on a previous walk.  Talk about a large collection of tequila.  This place had over 250 different kinds of tequila.   Bill tried a new type of tequila and I went for my usual marguerita.  Oh yeah, the food was great too.

  Now it was time to take our full bellies back to our hotel.  Am I getting used to the hills or have we finally found a path that seems alot easier this evening.