Foggy Frisco

The people of San Francisco actually don't like it when you say "Frisco" but it made a good headline according to Daddy.

The trip over took more than 12 hours from Auckland and I only slept about four hours. We left on Monday but because of the international dateline we then arrived about 15 minutes later than we left Australia.

On the plane, we had our own personal tv on the back of the seat in front and I watched three movies - one of them was Terminator - and two Simpsons episodes. (Daddy's note: and you wonder why he didn't sleep!)

Although I was tired - very tired - we climbed hill after hill in San Francisco to get to Fisherman's Wharf. I had some bread stuff with cheese and tomato sauce that the cafe called pizza. It wasn't what I was expecting.

Mama spotted a tour bus after lunch and we jumped on to visit several places but most importantly the Golden Gate Bridge.When we travelled over the bridge it was very foggy and at times you couldn't see any further than about 100 metres in front of you. Parts of the bridge seemed to disappear. Then when we went to a lookout, parts of San Francisco disappeared.

We went through some of the really expensive suburbs and heard about the earthquakes that hit the city in 1906 and in the eighties.

Now the part you have been waiting for:

MILKSHAKE

The only milkshake I had time to taste in San Francisco was one that came in a bottle and was called Chug milkshake. It promised on the side of the bottle to be extra rich and creamy chocolate. It was very rich but it wasn't very creamy.

All up I gave it a three stars out of seven rating so a slight thumbs down for this one.

The search continues ..

Mac