Tuesday morning we went horseback riding on the beach.  It was absolutely beautiful!!  My horse's name was "Samurai."  He was very stubborn, but I soon realized all the horse's in our group were.  We had a group of six people including the guide, Armando.  There was a dad with his two daughters that were 11 and 9.  The 11 year old was not happy from the moment we got on the horses.  I guess she was scared, because she just kept crying.  Claire had been riding up beside her but had fallen back, because we were trying to get good photos of each other.  All of a sudden I hear, "Her horse bit you?," referring to Claire's horse.   The Dad starts going off on us, telling us that we need to learn to "control our horses." Claire was hilarious.  She was like "I'm sorry sir....I'm just really not used to men being so rude.  I'm from the south"....lol.  I couldn't help but get a kick out of it.  He ended up apologizing and being really nice the rest of the time.  We told him we were headed to San Francisco next, and he informed is that it was gay pride week.  Out of 52 weeks.....seriously??  We just decided to go ahead and start praying for grace....that God was have grace for our thoughts and that we would have grace for homosexuals.  He's always stretching us, that's for sure :) After taking our horses back, we got ready to hit the road.  

Oh yeah, we did stop at the best little diner in Half Moon Bay.  We had a good sandwich and GREAT fries.  Our sweet waitress's name was Emily, and there was an older man that worked there named Bill.  We would just be sitting there, and he would start singing a song at the top of his lungs.  It was hilarious.  Then he would stop and just start again when he felt like it.  It was great. The drive into San Fran only took about 45 minutes.  More beautiful scenery......California is such a gorgeous state!!  Really breathtaking.  You know the minute you drive into the city, you have almost entered into a different country.  We stayed right by  the waterfront in the Fisherman's Wharf district.  Besides the frequent whiff of fish that you get, its such an awesome place.  All kinds of culture.  Any place you can think to eat, shops, people singing on corners.  Definitely more homeless people than I've ever seen.  Some of them reminded me of the homeless people in Santa Cruz....which = not so pitiful.  But MOST of them in San Francisco were SO pitiful and helpless.  You'll be walking down the sidewalk and see someone using cardboard as a bed, and then another piece for a blanket.  SO sad....and you just don't know what to do.  It get's so cold here at night, and you just feel so sorry for them.  I found myself just wanting to know about their lives.....How did they get here? Do they have family??  Are they drug addicts??  Just can't imagine.  So the first night we were here, we just checked into our room, went to the apple store to replace my iphone (the screen got busted in Santa Cruz,) and went to Lombard St., before we dropped off "Paula," our rental car. Lombard St. is the "crookedest" street in America.  It is super cool to go down, and there are groups of people there taking pictures no matter what time of day it is.   After we took the impala back, we bought a 3 day pass and road our first cable car.  This was seriously one of my favorite things about San Francisco.  The streets literally have tracks built into the roads, and these little open buses are constantly going up and down the streets until 1 am in the morning!!   It's really so cool:)  

We rode it back into the bay area, and went to grab a bite at this Mexican place. We were both CRAVING it!  It was really good but very different than "Alabama Mexican"...lol.  The queso dip wasn't made from white cheese .... bummer.  And the portions here are much smaller :(  But we walked down to "The Chocolate Store," which would soon become our favorite little stop in San Fran, and got some yummy treats.  I got a white chocolate covered rice krispy treat on a stick and a homemade reese cup...yummy.  Claire got peanut butter fudge and chocolate covered marshmallows.  They were delicious.  Definitely gonna have to go on a health kick when I get back!!

For some reason I couldn't add photos tonight, so I'll try to post them separately!!