March 25, 2011 Cable Car Ride and City Tour

The old San Francisco with the New.

We love San Francisco!

A beautiful city!

Lombard Street

Magaly with the beautiful city as a backdrop.

San Francisco is so gorgeous!

BFFE

Panoramic view

The rainbow ends at our hotel!

Ciao gente (hey person)!

Our last, but not least, day started off very well: as we left our hotel on the bus to come back to Pier 39 in order to take some more pictures of the sea lions in the bay, a huge rainbow was over the sky!
We all stoped in front of the hard rock cafe and did the rain dance again, just to make sure that our last day would be dry. :)

After our successfull rain dance we walked to the cable car, we were all very excided. It was so much fun and we took a lot of pictures standing in and out of the cable cars. We just loved it; it's been amazing! The cable cars brought us next to Union Square, where we had a couple of hours shopping and having fun. We had lunch and we must say food is really relly good in San Francisco.

After lunch a tour guide joined us and we went on a city tour exploring all San Francisco, including the Italian, Chinese, the gay and the Latino neighborhoods; we saw the victorian houses and the hippies standing on the sidewalks; we went on the top of the hill(Twin Peaks) that devides San Fran in two parts: the one near the Ocean, more windy and foggy, and the one standing on the bay, sunnier and wamer. Since the hill overstands San Francisco, the view we had was wonderful and made us thinking of how beautiful the world is. The pictures we took are fantastic and I guess a lot of us will use them as Facebook profile!

We also had a walk coming down one of crookedest(zig zag) roads in the USA, Lombard St, and it's been funny. Then we went to the city hall, that's huge and wonderful, and we saw some people getting married and talked about gay marriages, that are still illegal in California even if most of the people in San Fran are open minded about it.

Then we came back to the hotel and we got ready for the surprise Belo Tour was preparing us: a dinner with a dance party with the other group of exchange students which is visiting the west coast too! People are still dancing right now, but we had to take a break. We're having so much fun we hope this trip would last forever. The friendships we made will never break, we'll keep in touch and visit each other so that we'll never forget this trip. I can say I now have some BFFEE, Best Friend For Ever. Ever.

Passez une bonne soiree,

Federico - Italy
Magaly - Switzerland
Sarah - Canada