Jun 17 2002
Day Three
Candi’s on her way home today. Hopefully, she’ll be able to get on an earlier flight on stand-by, instead of the one she’s scheduled to be on that gets her home around 1 in the morning! That has to be the main drawback of Priceline: you can’t specify the times, so you usually get stuck with the worst possible/least desirable flights, like the ones that get you home at 1 a.m.
Despite that, the complete lack of parking anywhere in the city except in très expensive parking lots and the surprising lack of choice in soda in restaurants, I think Brian and Candi had a pretty good time. I hope so!
We rounded off their whirlwind visit yesterday with a trip to Alcatraz. It was a beautiful, sunny, postcard kind of day, and much warmer on the island than I had thought it would be. It’s usually windy and cold out there, but not yesterday. It’s mating season for the birds on the island, and we were charmed to see baby seagulls, balls of grey fluff, taking their first hesitant steps on their long legs and mother gulls sitting calmly on their nests right beside the paths.
We took the audio tour, which includes both guards and inmates talking about what it was like in the bad old days, and had such a good time that we had to literally run for the ferry!
It was wonderful to have Brian & Candi come out and visit us, and I hope they come back soon!
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