Alcatraz

The first stop on our San Francisco trip was Alcatraz. I was so excited!! Before we left, we borrowed movies from the library on the different places we would be going. We saw a Myth Busters in the escape from Alcatraz so the kids were excited to go.

I had bought tickets a few months ago and also a CityPass which entitles us to a lot of free things in the Bay Area. I was glad because the tours for the day were sold out. 

We got ready for the day, ate cereal for breakfast and then took off for the Muni stop near our hotel. We had free Muni (bus) passes so we decided to save money on parking. It was pretty fun and Ethan got to pull the "stop request" cord. 

We walked to the pier and found the ship we would be riding on. We loaded on and were excited to be going.

While we were crossing the bay, we saw one of the sailboats entered in the America's Cup race. It was really cool!!

After landing at Alcatraz we listened to a guide tell us a bit about the island then we hiked to the jail house to start the audio tour. That was nice because you could hear all about the parts of the prison and listen to narrations.

We told the kids we would leave them there if they weren't good. They didn't believe us!

Ethan in solitary.

The "escape" cell.

Courtney was hungry because he didn't want to eat much breakfast so she was a bit grumpy.

We saw a seal as we loaded back onto the boat to go back to San Francisco but I didn't get a picture of it.