San Francisco, California, USA

Saturday was our last day in Fiji. It was much cooler and raining nearly all day. We played in the pool with some kids from Wagga Wagga, their names where Bonnie, Jack, Lucy, and Lachlan, and their parents' names were Tara and Steve, and I taught Lachlan how to play Pokémon Go. Then after a nine hour flight we got off the plane from Fiji to San Francisco, which is a city in California, which is a state in the USA. We picked up our hire car and drove 35mins to our hotel which is in Oakland. We had some dinner, showers and then much needed sleep. We time-traveled on the plane because we crossed the international date border. When we left Fiji it was 10:30PM on Saturday but when we got to San Francisco it was 1:30PM on Saturday! I also had my first ever Dr Pepper. I thought it tasted a bit like medicine. Today we went to the underground which is called the BART system. We got on at Lake Meritt station where there were a group of people playing a game called shuttlecock. It was played using a modified shuttlecock that had a bigger weighted bottom. It was played a bit like keepy uppy but with your feet. At first I was just watching, and then they kicked it at me. I tried to kick it back but I missed. After a while I got into the swing of things. But we had to go so we got on the train and went into Downtown San Francisco. We went on a cable tram that took us up a tall hill and down again to Pier 39 and Fisherman's Wharf. We got off and looked at the shops there. It was really cold on the waterfront and Mama bought a beanie with a frog on it to keep her ears warm. For lunch, Papa had a clam chowder cob, I had a bit of sourdough shaped like a turtle. Mama had a Hot Dog. We found lots of sea lions. They smelled really bad and were going ARRF! ARRF! ARRF! ARRF! In case you didn't know the difference between a seal and a sea lion is that while seals have ear holes, sea lions have ear flaps. On the way back we wanted to ride in the cable car again but the line was really long. So instead we had to walk up the big hill. At the top there was a really nice ice cream shop. I had choc-chip cookie dough and Papa had rocky-road. After that we got on a cable bus that took us to a shopping area that had a big Westfield. Inside the Westfield they had escalators that curved around!! We had dinner at a place called Mel's Drive-In. I had a burger that arrived in a purple car shaped boxed and a milkshake called the Penguin. It had whipped cream, marshmallows, and chocolate in it. We took the BART back to Lake Meritt where we had parked the car and drove back to the hotel. We are now watching Harry Potter and the deathly hallows part 2 on TV.
I will see you tomorrow.

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