San Francisco, CA

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Last night we got a sheet with the first cruise's mileage.  2815 Nautical miles from Vancouver through Alaska to San Francisco.

We arrived under the Golden Gate Bridge before sunrise but we didn't get docked or cleared until after our scheduled 7am time. They requested everyone be out of their cabins by 8am and stopped serving breakfast at 8:30am. It was pretty rushed and they had everyone disembarked by 9am.

We were off on about the same schedule. We crossed Embarcadero before calling Uber because there were about 100 people waiting right outside and maybe double that at the taxi line. Our ride came across the street within 5 minutes and charged us about $25 for the ride to the Walt Disney Family Museum in the Presidio. It was a nice drive and convenient but double what the estimate was an hour earlier when Clay first checked. He said it was because no shared rides were available after 9am. We got to the WDFM a half hour early and sat on the porch to get out of the mist as we waited until 10am. I talked to Mom on  the phone during that time and learned that she is still without power. She also informed us that Aggie, a family friend, had died this morning. She will be missed and our thoughts are with her and her family.

We enjoyed the Walt Disney Family Museum. It was $25 for me and $20 for Clay. I would rank it a must do for any Disney fans. The back of the building near the end of the tour is all glass and would have been a fantastic Golden Gate view but it was in a cloud most of the day. The cloud was especially dense while we were at WDFM! We called Uber again when we were done around 12:30pm. We took a shorter ride (and cheaper) to Ghiradelli Square. We shared a tall chocolate & marshmallow sundae. We bought some chocoalte. We walked down Beach St. to the Fishermans Wharf In n Out and shared a burger. We walked down Beach to Jones and caught the next trolley to Pier 27/Sansome St. It was $2.75 for me and $1.65 for Clay. One of the trolley cars we saw in the morningn on that E/F track had El Paso/Juarez on it. The Uber driver said San Francisco had bought and restored trolley cars from all over to run here. Those trolleys were long gone when we lived in El Paso, but how cool.

We were back onboard in time for the mandatory life boat drill at 4:15pm which was nearly over by theh time 4:30pm all aboard happened. I am not sure who scheduled that. We got seats up front in Horizons for the sail out. Clay went down and asked and learned that our Concierge Level keycard affords us entry to the forward facing private spa terrace so he was happy to get photos there during sailaway. You have to go through the Canyon Ranch Spa and through the gender appropriate dressing rooms to get out there.

We have a new cruise director now, Julie James. We enjoyed her earlier this year on Sirena on Circle Australia. That's it for now. Off to dinner in Terrace I think.

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