San Francisco Zoo & Sunset over the Bay

After a delayed start due to a malfunction of Erichs work mobile, we took the beautiful Pacific Coast Highway up to San Francisco. After a little detour to pick up Erichs mum to sort out stuff at the bank, we finally made it to the San Francisco Zoo. I was surprised to find that they didn't have as many "native" North American animals as I expected, or maybe we just missed them. The Bison were "Coming Soon", but the Grizzly Bears were awesome. One even jumped up on his hind legs and put his front paws on the glass which gave one guy the fright of his life - if the glass hadn't been there, he'd be squashed. I'm not sure if the big cat enclosures were the original ones or temporary ones, but we only saw one tiger and one lion. (the other lion having been shot by the police at Christmas for escaping and killing two young men). The Warthogs were not very co-operative, they stayed standing behind their log.

After the Zoo we went up to the USS San Francisco Memorial (a heavy cruiser which fought during the battle of Guadalcanal) on a lookout point that had a beautiful view of the Golden Gate bridge and out toward the ocean. We stayed until the sunset. Gorgeous.

Back to Erich's parents place in Daly City to meet up with his brothers and Jasmine for dinner. The guys rode their bikes and Jasmine drove us around to a friend Mark's place who also rides. Jasmine and I picked up Marks girlfriend Marissa. We had dinner at Sinugba Restaurant (Filipino food). I tried Pork Tocino (Tocino or tosino is a cured meat product native to the Philippines) and Halo Halo (Halo-halo (from Tagalog halo, "mix") is a popular Filipino dessert that is a mixture of shaved ice and milk to which are added various boiled sweet beans ...) (I didn't like the Halo Halo) and Erwin gave me a piece of chichiron bulaklak (Deep-fried pork intestines) to try. It tasted fine, but very fatty.

Another fun day :D