Gullfriends Weekend Our college mascot was a Gull and they were everywhere on this trip. Be prepared for a whole lot of pictures! (I stole pictured from everyone on this trip so credit goes out to Shelby, Stephanie and Steph!) Not the kind of Gulls above but these Gullfriends: We did a girls weekend in San Fran. Stephanie, Steph and I flew from Boston on Friday night and met Shelby who flew from Colorado. This time together means so much more now that we live across the country from one another. It takes a bit more planning but it is well worth it. By the time our flights landed, we found each other, got the rental car, and made it to our hotel it was 3 am PT. That means it was 6 am EST, it was a long trip but we made it, we crashed and prepared for our early wake-up call. We got up at 7 am to get ready for our first activity. We had tickets for Alcatraz at 8:45. Alcatraz was amazing. You take a short ferry ride out to the island and it had a great view of the city and the Golden Gate Bridge (be warned we got about 57 different shots of the bridge throughout the weekend!) Then you get a headset and it is a guided walking tour throughout the prison. I learned so much about the prison and some of its prisoners. On to lunch. We wandered down the Pier where we found lots of shops and restaurants. We grabbed lunch at Fog House which had a great view of the water and some really good seafood. There was a Lefty store and I got to educate my friends on the hardships we leftys face with everyday items. HA Then the SEALS I mean there were so many. SO MANY all just hanging out it was incredible to see. Up next Sonoma for a wine tasting. As a last minute decision, we rented a car and it was the best thing ever, props to Stephanie for figuring this all out. It gave us way more freedom, not to mention most of our activities were about an hour away from our hotel! We drove to Sonoma and got to drive over the Golden Gate Bridge. We went to Viansa Winery and it did not disappoint. We got to do a tasting of 4 wines (they gave us a 5th just because) and walk around the property. It rained on our drive there but it cleared up once we got there and we even eventually got to see a rainbow. We really packed each day with so many actives but we never felt rushed. After we left the winery we drove to Napa just to drive by some other wineries then headed back to our hotel before dinner. We picked this restaurant that was around the corner from our hotel, Pescatore. From there we made our way over to Ghirardelli Square where we of course had to get some sundaes to round out the day! Phew, that is the end of day 1!
We headed back to our hotel and crashed because we had another early wake up call the next day.
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