Fun in "The City"

Susie drove up from Long Beach to spend the weekend with me this weekend. We had a great time. Friday night, we went to Mimi's Cafe and then to see Scoop. I didn't know what to expect, but it was a great movie. I really recommend it. How can you beat Woody Allen driving a Smart Car, a guy jumping off a boat into the River Styx to come back from the dead, and Hugh Jackman without his Wolverine sideburns?!
Saturday we headed out early, first to Oakland to the USS Hornet museum. The Hornet is an aircraft carrier, built in 1943 and decommissioned in 1970. It was the ship that picked up Apollos 11 & 12 after they landed in the Pacific ocean. I got "volunteered" to sit at one of the ship's guns and spin the manual controls to sight down the enemy. We also went on the engine room tour. I wouldn't want that job!
From Oakland we headed to San Francisco, The City, via the Bay Bridge. Lots of traffic, but we made it eventually. We shopped at Pier 39 and Fisherman's Wharf. Then headed over to the Cable Car turn around. We had to wait in line for a while to make it onto a cable car, but it was worth it. We rode all the way across the city. Our cable car almost t-boned a pick-up truck and decapitated a lady in an opposite going cable car (they pass very close to each other). But in the end, no one was injured and we made it to the swanky shopping district. Don't worry, Tim, I only spent $15 there.
We grabbed another cable car back across town and had dinner in an Irish Pub before heading home. It was certainly a better experience than my last one in San Francisco--I still had my purse at the end (because I left it at home). Susie and I had a great time. The City has redeemed itself in my eyes. And there's still so much I want to do there--go to Alcatraz, ride a bike across the Golden Gate bridge, take a horse buggy ride....