SF - Last Day

This being our last final day, we had to be more mindful of our time. In the morning, we packed our bags, had breakfast down in the Atrium, and checked out at noon. Target was right around the corner, so we went there to get a few bags of Ghirardelli chocolates for the family, and batteries for the camera.

I wanted to show Vee the Haight-Ashbury district so we headed there next. Traffic was awful, as usual, and after driving down Haight St., and some of the side streets looking for a place to park for about twenty minutes or so, we decided to ditch the idea of walking around, and just got back onto Rte 101 and headed for Sonoma.

We stopped in a Visitor's Information center and asked for their opinion regarding which winery tour we could to, and still get back to the airport in time for our flight. The staffperson recommended Cline Winery which was just a few hundred yards from the Visitor's Information center, but he said we'd probably not be able to do the tour and get back to the airport on time. By this time, it was 2:50PM and the tour started at 3. We flew over to Cline Winery, and hopped into the crowd already in the midst of the tour. It was a brief tour, but the elderly man leading it was charming and entertaining. There was a wedding reception being put together, so alot of the winery was off limits to us because of this. We took a picture with the "Red Truck", and tried to get into the wine tasting, but it was crowded and we weren't feeling like pushing people out of our way to get to the wine bar, and instead just walked around on our own a bit, and then left. It was a beautiful winery, with a duck pond, lots of landscaping, a museum, etc.

We continued on into the town of Sonoma, and parked in the main square or plaza, and walked around, looking in some of the shops. The sun was really hot, so the air conditioning in the shops felt really good. It was getting close to dinner time, so we went into a cafe where I had a sandwich and Vee had a vanilla smoothie. We couldn't spend a whole lot of time there, but I think we both felt as if we saw all that we wanted to anyway. We were on the road headed towards SFO by 5pm.

Returning the car was no problem, neither was check-in and security. All was smooth and before long, we were on the plane and headed home. Vee finished her book, and I made some more progress with mine, but got tired, and caught a few naps during flight. We landed around 6am, headed home, quickly stopped at McDonalds for an egg mcmuffin, and went to sleep until 1pm. Home Sweet Home.