San Fransisco

My suitcase arrived on the 1st of August, after 6 days without any luggage it has finally arrived and the first thing i realise as i carry the monstrosity up stairs is that i have way way way over packed. I'll have to send some stuff home when we get to Torronto!
So enough about the suit case issue, on to the holiday which has in fact gone very well regardless of the little suit case hitch.
On the 28th we went to the Asian Art Museum and looked at some fabulous desplays of art through out the ages, we saw work from Japan, Persia, China just to name a few. After the Art Museum we caught the bus to the Japanese Tea Gardens where we walked around for a while oohing and aahing at the beautiful garden artwork. We had a traditional Japanese tea there, it was all very relaxing. Below are a couple of photographs that we took... yes, finally some photographs!









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The next day after the Japanese Tea Garden we went on the Bay Cruise. It was an enjoyable and somewhat informative tour which told us a little bit of the history of San Francisco. There was an amusing aduo commentary by `Captain Nemo` who was very strongly American and had retired his days as a Submarine Captain. We sailed around the islands, under the Golden Gate Bridge and past Alcatraz. Unfortunately we couldn`t go onto Alcatraz because the tour for that was sold out until the next Tuesday. More Photo`s!










We went to Chinatown that night and it was just as bright and colourful as it is in the movies, then it was back to the hostel for our last night in San Fransisco.