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I really enjoyed my trip to San Francisco. We were there for 4 days and 3 nights. I went with my Mom, my Dad, and my sister. We had a lot of fun there together.

 

My favorite part of the trip was the San Francisco Giants game against the San Diego Padres. The Giants are a baseball team that play at AT&T Park. My favorite sport is baseball, so I really enjoyed the game. The Giants were trying to defend their world series title. I was hoping they would win because they are my third favorite team behind the Toronto Blue Jays, and my favorite team,  the New York Mets.

 

There were a lot of Padres fans at the game. San Diego, where the Padres play, is not that far from San Francisco so the Giants didn’t have a lot of home field advantage.

 

During the game I helped my sister try to understand the rules of baseball. I told her what happened and what everything meant. We all had a lot of fun at the game, even though the Giants lost.

 

I also really liked the food in the city. They had a lot of good seafood and food from other countries. We went to a restaurant called the Slanted Door that had the best Vietnamese food I had ever had. Ghirardelli Square, which is the original Ghirardelli factory, had a lot of Ghirardelli chocolate, which is extremely good. I really liked that there was so many different types of food. We also went to an Asian restaurant and a good burger place. I don’t normally eat Vietnamese food, or Asian food so it was a nice change.

 

The Trolley was a train that went in the middle of the street. It runs on wires that go above the roads. It was really cool! We got on it at our hotel and took it up a steep hill near Union Square. My Mom said it was in an old famous movie. I was excited because the trolleys are very old and they are an outdoor subway, but with no windows or doors. I wanted to hang on the edge of the trolley but we didn’t get a chance. We took it to Lombard Street. That’s how we found out that it was really crooked. I learned it was the most crooked street in the world. I thought that was an interesting fact.

 

Overall, I thought San Francisco was awesome!  Everything there was interesting and it was all a lot of fun. I liked it there a lot and would definitely go there again.

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AT&T Park

On our last night in San Francisco, we went to a San Francisco Giants game. The Giants were playing the San Diego Padres. Madison Bumgarner was pitching for the Giants against the Padres Odrisamer Despaigne. It was a really good game.

 

I was really excited to go to the game because the Giants are my third favorite team. I was hoping they would win.

 

During the first inning we got something to eat. I got a bacon wrapped hot dog. It smelled so good I had to start eating it before we got back to the seats. I finished it before the inning ended.

 

The game was scoreless until the sixth inning. The Giants scored 2 runs in the bottom of the sixth inning. Gregor Blanco, the left fielder, and Joe Panik, the second basemen, each had an R.B.I. in that inning. R.B.I. stands for runs batted in. I was really happy because I wanted the Giants to win.

 

In the seventh inning there was the seventh inning stretch. The seventh inning stretch is when everyone sings take me out the the ball game and a professional singer sings God Bless America. I went to the store to get a cool hat during that part of the game.

 

Madison Bumgarner had a no-hitter through six, which means he didn’t give up a hit. He gave up a hit in the seventh and 2 runs in the eighth. Will Venable had a 2 R.B.I. double.

 

We left in the 9th inning of the game because we where all tired and had to get up early the next morning.

 

The game went to extra innings. 2 extra, 11 in total. In the top of eleventh inning, Alexi Amarista had a R.B.I. single. That was the game winning hit for the Padres. The final score was 3-2.

 

After the game we went back to the hotel and the next day we came back to New York.

 

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During our second day in San Francisco, we took a trip to Muir Woods. Muir Woods is a national park with giant redwood trees.

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Almost tall enough!

 

The trees were a lot bigger than I expected. I thought they would be 3 stories high, but they looked like they were 6 stories! That really surprised me. I also thought there would be thousands of bugs, and there was only a few flies and ants.

 

Muir Woods has a lot of really long hikes you can take. There is 554 acres of land, so the hikes were almost 5 miles long!  We took the main route for a mile. That’s where I took a selfie with a Redwood. Then we switched to a 5 foot wide route that was on the side of a mountain for the last 2 miles we hiked. I got scared because I thought I was going to fall off the side. Thankfully I didn’t. From up on the hill we had a really good view of the whole park. You could see hundreds of Redwoods.

 

At the end of the hike we saw the inside of a Redwood tree that was on display.

It was 1 foot thick and 5 feet wide. It looked bigger than my whole family combined! I learned that the rings inside the tree represent how old the tree is. This tree was from the year 508 A.D, so it was almost 3,000 years old! I thought that was really cool. The arrows on the tree are big parts of U.S. history. One of them is pointing to the ring from the year 1787, when the Constitution was written.

 

I also saw something that said why the trees are so tall. It said from November-April, it rains 60-140 inches and the temperature is 45 degrees to 61 degrees. It said that climate makes trees grow bigger.

 

I would really recommend going to Muir Woods. The hikes are really fun because it’s just nature. There isn’t anything on the hike that isn’t natural. It’s fun to try to guess how old the trees are by looking at them, and just seeing trees so giant is cool.

 

I was a little sad when we stopped hiking because I had a lot of fun. I couldn’t wait to go to the Giants game the next day though.

 

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On Saturday, June 21, we got to San Francisco. I was so excited to explore there. Wyatt told me before that it was really cool, so I couldn’t wait.

 

The first thing we did was go on the cable car. The cable cars there aren’t like the ones that go to Governors Island. They are like subways that go in the middle of the road. We took it up Powell Street. I saw a sign in the cable car that they where founded it the early 1800s, which I thought was really interesting.

 

We got off at Lombard Street. Lombard Street is the crookedest road in the world.

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The crooked road.

When I first heard that I didn’t believe it was actually crooked. I thought it was a joke. Then I discovered that it was more crooked than a paper clip. I said, “It would be really fun to sled down this in the winter” I really wanted to get a go cart and drive down it. We walked down it instead.

 

After we walked down Lombard Street, we went to Ghirardelli Square. Ghirardelli Square is where the old Ghirardelli factory was. Now it’s a lot of Ghirardelli stores and a few toy stores. When we went into a Ghirardelli store they gave us free chocolate squares. It was milk chocolate caramel. They were really good. I was so excited to get a whole bar of really good chocolate. I got a milk chocolate caramel brownie bar. It tasted like a Lindt chocolate truffle, which are my favorite chocolate truffles. After we got chocolate we saw a sign that said Ghirardelli was founded in 1852 in San Francisco. I thought that fact was really interesting because I didn’t know Ghirardelli was founded in San Francisco. I thought it was founded in Belgium or a country near there.