donderdag 14 augustus 2014

August 10-14: San Francisco

If you 're going to San Francisco, be sure to wear some flowers in your hair.




I don't like cities too much, but I like San Francisco. Not the city center, but all the rest. It reminds me of Amsterdam. Besides the smell of weed I only smelled in those two cities, people are friendly, have a nice sense of humor and are above all free minded.

Just some pictures:










Sunflowers planted on the sidewalk by:



This last picture isn't an attempt to copy the tower of Pisa (although we saw today a church inspired by the Notre Dame in Paris with as doors the copy of the Gates of Paradise in Firenze...) Just turn your computer until the house is level. This is how steep some of the streets are!

In those streets, Luka is as tall as Jan:



At Pier 39 lives a colony of Sea Lions. Those animals are delight to watch. The bulls are constantly quarreling to be the boss of the platform while the females think "just shut up and lay down!" The show was better than the one at Sea World:



And there was some foreshadowing on our path (I know that word since our kids where reading Shakespeare):



Tomorrow we are leaving for Alaska. We are very excited to go to the last frontier. 

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