Ah, what an amazing day. Our morning was early, in fact we had to leave at 7:50. It hurt, I feel most people wanted to sleep a little more. We headed off for Alcatraz, firstly I had a slight issue with the parks and wildlife people, because they told me that we were not booked in. After a fair amount of her searching, and a few um's and ah's she found the tickets, by this time I had finished my entire apple, and had gotten the seed out of my tooth. Boarding the boat we did. Then Tim wasn't at all visible, he went to get some water. So we continued on, and we got some mega cool photo's because of sitting on the top deck. Postgrad Sally shared some witty banter along the trip, much to many peoples amusement.... I've decided to turn the song Mustang Sally into Postgrad Sally; Pure Brilliance.
We arrived at Alcatraz and were told that we would have to climb 13 stories to get to our audio tour, many of us tried to find ways to be able to use the disability cart, we gave Marg a few different options, but in the end we all trudged up the hills. We arrived, and started our audio tours. This was amazing, the audio tour was given by past prison wardens and inmates. We had a very personal and sometimes confronting discovery of prison life. We were able to enter certain cells and the solitary confinement cells as well, these were fairly intense experiences for all. The tour ended with a horrific story of some inmates that stole knives from the kitchen and killed some inmates, and a horrific stabbing sound came across the headsets. Everyone said that it was one of the best Audio Tours they have ever done.
We headed off to Justin Herman Plaza for our performance, this was a particularly difficult performance because of where the power was located and the fact that we were in direct sun, the choir still did a great job, and we had some wonderful comments from people passing by. In the background we had to compete with a busy road, a bustling market, a Zip line up above and just general fatigue. They did a great job.
We packed up, and continued on to Union Square for some lunch and other things, a few of us went to Chinatown, and had super awesome Chinese food for lunch. Lots of fun. Then we had a sight seeing tour. We went out to Twin Peaks, and Japan Town, and then the Golden Gate Bridge and the little park on the other side, where we took some great group photos and had quite a few laughs, in particular Oli had the idea that he and I should Plank, LEGENDARY IDEA!!!
From here bit more sight seeing, and then off to Safeway, for the supermarket experience of our lives. I got cream puffs, such a good day.
Back to the hotel where we are currently having some cheese and chips and just having a really nice relax with the group.
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