Trip 2005 - San Francisco

The streets are ridiculous in San Francisco, and at times I felt like we were on a roller coaster. Except that this roller coaster wasn't connected to a track by safety devices and you could die if you stopped paying attention to the ride. Since we didn't want that to happen, I kept my eyes focused on the prize the entire time I was driving. When we went over this hill, we were greeted with the sight of downtown San Francisco, easily recognizable by the Transamerica pyramid. We decided to head back towards downtown and eventually right back where we were this morning and a special place called Pier 39, which housed many shopping centers and fantastic eateries.

Jenny and I decided to go to eat at Bubba Gump Shrimp Co., but we had to wait a little bit until we were able to get a table. In the meantime, we sat outside on a bench that resembled the bus stop where Forrest spent the majority of the movie telling his story to random people who would sit long enough to hear them. This bench came complete with movie artifacts like Forrest's suitcase, shoes and of course, his catchphrase inducing box of chocolates. Tim and Sarah wouldn't join us for lunch because Tim is afraid of anything from the sea, so they went to eat at he Hard Rock Cafe because they both dig music. Jenny digs Forrest and I dig Bubba so Bubba Gump Shrimp Co.

To buy some time until our table was ready, we checked out some of the stores in the area, including this one that had really expensive sweet art stuff. Most everything would look good in your house if you could afford it, but I simply don't have enough class to pull this furniture off. That goes for everything else in this swanky store. I wish that I had taken more pictures so that you'd have reasons to believe me, but I don't think that I was allowed to snap even just this one. It's a good thing hat mall security didn't see me do this. We then spent a few dollars in the gift store so that we would be walking billboards for the company at no cost to them. I suppose I'll do it for free because the movie rocks and the restaurant does the name and the movie justice by being just as cool.

The order taking system that they implemented was not only the best that I've ever seen, but it was also very clever and tied in nicely with the theme. You had a waiter that was specifically assigned to your table, but anytime that you needed something from extra napkins to a soda refill, all you had to do was changed the sigh from Run Forrest Run to Stop Forrest Stop and the first person who walked by would immediately stop, even if they were already in the middle of something. Someone literally came by 5 seconds after I flipped the sign to see what I needed. Now that's service. I wish that something went wrong just so that I could flip the sign to see how fast I could get someone to stop by, but we received perfect service and we had a wonderful time.

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