Day 8 – One week in USA

So today is day 8 of being in the USA. It's now been over a week that we have arrived. But if the truth be known, it feels like I've been here months. It fels so much longer then the one week we have been here. The whole LA and San Fran adventure seems like we have been on the go for so long. Ever since we first stepped down off the plane everything has been go go go. But I guess this is a good thing, I don't want it to slow down. If it slows too much then it'd just get boring, and we do not want that. Definitely want to keep this trip as much fun as possible. I think I'm falling into the pace of things... definitely enjoying this more then working :P

Alright so, todays lunch was In And Out again. The first time we went we didn't do enough research. I knew that you could customise your orders to all these special ways of the burgers being prepared and such. But I had forgotten what it all was since I read the article about four months ago. Since then though we've had a look on the internet and researched into the secret menu. With that in mind we proceeded to get both the burger and the chips cooked Animal style. Let's just say that this was good, but oh so baaaaaad. It tasked great but the chips was drowning in melted cheese and cream sauce. Finishing it all was a struggle. Finishing it and just walking around afterwards was a struggle. It sat there in my stomach like a bar of lead.

We went to get our dose of culture today. San Fran is know for its art and stuff I think. It's supposed to have a lot of stuff on the art scene. So in focusing on that, today we dedicated to getting our dose of culture. We headed into the civic centre as we thought that that would be the area where the most museums and such would be. Unfortunately for us we forgot about all the bums and weirdos that actually hang out there. The park in front of the city hall is filled with homeless people and people with nothing to do. For example while we were walking past on the outside of the park some weird woman inside decides to take off her top baring her... chest and starts singing at the top of her lungs. The people around her yells either encouragement or to tell her to shut up.. I'm not too sure... it was just too strange for us. By that time we were high tailing out of there to the closest museum. Which was the Asian culture Museum. The main display was about the maharajahs of India... unfortunately for us I think these weren't as good a display as we hoped.. our dose of culture took us over 2 hours but left us yawning...

Getting out of there we wanted to get some snacks. Heading back to faux Hong Kong (Chinatown) we aimed for the bakery we first went to when we got to San Francisco. They still serve the best pineapple buns... definitely a lot better then the ones in Australia, and on par with that in Hong Kong. Luckily for us though, getting to the bakery the people there remembered us as we told them how great the buns were last time. They treated us really well, we got freshly baked buns PLUS a discount. 90Cents for two... how brilliant is that?! I mean fresh pineapple buns!!!

We've walked a lot of places this day, mainly because we've been eating a lot of crap and to help try stave off all the badness we've been trying to exert more. Not that it seems to be helping since meals seem to come after a lot of walking. Which means that after the snack, we walked to Fisherman's wharf to get food... oh and walk around a bit more :P We had dinner at a restaurant called Neptune's or something. Fancy, it had a waterfront view and a high class décor. Specialising in seafood, I ended up getting the days special and some seafood bisque. That bisque was great! So tasty.. if I have to say anything bad about it, i'll just have to say that it was probably a bit too strong. The rest of dinner was pretty nice too.. but nothing really that outstanding. Was tasty but yeah.. :P

As I was saying before, we were doing a walk around day today. This meant that we went to walk from the fishermans wharf to the Marina area where we were staying. I don't know how long that took but on the way there we found this amazing thing. Spray paint artists. This was the first time I've actually ever seen it. It is most definitely something to see these people working on their art. I loved the show they put up and how amazing it looks. I ended up buying two of the paintings... so amazing we finished our walk home by stopping at the safeway near the hotel. We found out that there is a local pre-packaged dessert called Its-it. Its an ice cream sandwich that we've been looking for the last few days. Luckily for us we found out where it was sold. Cappuccino flavour is the original flavour and I must say its actually pretty good. Definitely worth a try.