Vacation Pt. I

Let's see how brief I can make this...
( not very, as it turns out )

Vacation Part II

Holly had warned us that we shoulda looked into Alcatraz tours some time ago, but we were trying to do a mostly unplanned vacation. Next morning, we made our way to the Alcatraz ferry and found out that tickets were sold out for the next three weeks. But that put us on the Embarcadero and we wandered about through the shops and nauticality. We toured the USS Pampanito, a WWII-era submarine. It was very cool to crawl around inside her, and Wikipedia has answered a remaining question: "Why is there a broom lashed to the conning tower?" To celebrate the sub's clean sweep patrol.
( continued, with more photos this time )

They foolishly awoke the dragon

(alt text: The kittens delved too greedily and too deep.)