Jessie: Our last day before flying back home began blissfully at 9 o'clock in the morning. We planned to spend our time walking around the city before driving to Muir Woods National Monument for a quick hike. After a quick breakfast we walked to Union Square and started our shopping visiting many stores in the area including Uniqlo, an up-and-coming clothing store wanting to be #1 in the world. Getting good reviews on a 60 Minutes story we were initially quite excited only to have it end in disappointment. We left Uniqlo and instead went to Old Navy. Our next stop was China Town. This was perhaps the best part of the day for everyone. The ornate architecture of the buildings was amazing. Nearing lunchtime we found an out of the way Chinese restaurant that was very popular with the locals and sampled the delicious cuisine. This ended the day of shopping for Dad and I. Alli stayed in the city shopping while Dad and I took a long, traffic-jammed, drive to Muir Woods.
The Golden Gate Bridge and headlands were mostly fogged in, making for a pretty eerie crossing. Muir Woods was beautiful and quite similar to Henry Cowell Redwoods. We walked the level loop path for about a mile. The highlight of the evening was when we took pictures of our shadows climbing trees. Deciding we should get back to the city and meet up with Alli we left the woods and, with another traffic-jammed car ride over the Golden Gate Bridge, made it back to the hotel. Knowing all the great restaurants and getting good reviews we ended the day with a nice dinner from Jack in the Box like true city folk
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