While in San Francisco we spent a day at Golden Gate Park! Here I am with some giant lily pads in a water garden inside the Conservatory which was totally amazing! I highly recommend it!This is a pond in the San Franciso Botanical Garden – also highly recommended. There was so much to see and for a Tiger it was good to have room to run around.And this is at the Japanese Tea Garden where it was all so lovely and peaceful. All the gardens were different and unique and so interesting! Mom got in free to them all because she is a veteran – what a great thing that San Francisco cares about veterans!Then we went to the California Academy of Sciences where there were PENGUINS omg I love PENGUINS!!!! We watched and watched them and came back at feeding time OMG and there was a biologist who gave a talk and answered questions it was the highlight of my day!There was a ton of other things to see at the Academy of Sciences like a big aquarium and a rainforest that you could walk through all the levels and lots of other cool and interesting exhibits it was awesome! And I found some friends in the gift shop!
Chinatown in San Franciso is the largest Chinatown outside Asia and is also the oldest Chinatown in North America! We had a blast visiting! There was so much to see!This the the fortune cookie factory. We thought it would be an enormous factory but it is two ladies making cookies! They work so fast I could not bend the cookies fast enough with my paws.Mom bought us a vegan Mooncake! I was not sure I would like it I wanted the pork one but mom was buying it mostly for herself (!) but it was delicious! Very interesing lotus flower flavor.We also visited the Palace Hotel in downtown San Franciso. It is famous and many famous people have stayed here and the hotel has also been featured in movies. They let us in so we could walk around and even use the bathroom! It was a very nice bathroom.Here is another picture of the Palace Hotel. It was beautiful and snazzy!!!
We went to the Hyde Street Pier! Where there are all kinds of historically important ships and boats! Auntie Darcy and mom sweet talked their way in at the entrance and did not have to pay (actually they were only asking about discounts and reeling off all their possible statuses such as almost a senior).Here I am on the Balclutha a three masted square rigger built in 1886!That is a lot of rigging!This is part of two exhibits at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art! An Alexander Calder sculpture in front of the Living Wall, designed by David Brenner Principal and Lead Designer of Habitat Horticulture.And here I am with Auntie Darcy in the color tunnel by Olafur Eliasson! The tunnel is so cool!!! It looks different at different times of day, different angles, and which way you are walking through the tunnel. Further back in a gallery you can see part of a very large sculpture by Yayoi Kusama. We had a blast at the art museum!
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