Onwards to San Francisco

Not long after boarding we were taxiing out for takeoff, this time destination San Francisco.

This flight we had exit row seats which was heaven for Dave. We were in a row of 3, and next to us in the middle row, there were 4 spare seats in the exit row so the lady sitting next to Dave, he was in the middle, I had the window seat, went to sit in one of those. Dave then moved into her seat which allow a spare seat between us which was great for our stuff and gave us both a bit more room.

Not long into the flight it was dinner time and this time I had roast chicken and rice and Dave had roast chicken and potatoes. Both really delicious.

Not long after dinner Dave was asleep and I watched about three quarters of the movie ‘2nd Juror’ which was brilliant. I couldn’t keep my eyes open so paused it and had a good couple of hours sleep and woke up and watched the rest. Back to sleep for a few more solid hours of sleep to be woken for breakfast - eggs ….. yuck so I didn’t have breakfast but Dave enjoyed his. I fell asleep again, we were about 2.5 hours from landing and again was awoken to an announcement that we needed to prepare for landing.

There was such a good tail wind that we landed 1.5 hours before our scheduled landing time. We disembarked quickly and made our way through immigration where we were interrogated about our trip. We must have looked very suspicious as I had to show our itinerary, all our paperwork for our accommodation bookings, our airfare ticket to America and our return airfare ticket to Australia, all our tickets for trains and how much money we had! Have never had that done the 4 times before we have visited America. And every other time we come to the States we have had to be finger printed, not this time. After being interrogated, the immigration officer said we could go to which I asked don’t we have to be finger printed and she said no. Both Dave and I were very confused.

Quick trip to the amenities and while I loaded our US sims into our phones, Dave grabbed our bags and then we headed to grab an Uber to our accommodation. Before too long we were on our way to Fisherman’s Wharf. We got to our hotel and booked in before we were even supposed to have landed (and it takes half an hour from the airport to Fisherman’s Wharf).

As we were early, our room wasn’t ready so we checked our luggage into storage and went for a walk to grab some food. And what better place to buy food than Trader Joe’s and what better stuff to buy than my Gluten Free Cinnamon Coffee Muffins.

Not long into our walk around San Francisco, we got a call to say our room was ready, so headed back and unpacked, had a shower, video chatted with Tommy (well Dave did as Nanny answered and I wasn’t the one he wanted to speak to) and while Dave was chatting to Tommy, Cathy video chatted with me.

To warn off the jet lag, we headed out for another walk around the piers.Read more