San Francisco {Part 2} + PCH Views!

{the crazy morning fog in Tiburon}

Our 2nd day in San Francisco (read Part 1 here) was intended to be more of a relaxing day because we saw so much the day prior. We needed/wanted a day to sleep in a bit, meaning like 8:30am, where we could take our time and not worry about jamming a lot of activities in (somewhat?).

We went and had coffee and breakfast down the street at Caffe Acri in Tiburon, where I got an egg croissant with potatoes and both of them were divine.
 There aren't many breakfast foods that I don't like,
 but these two were especially good (I took the bacon off the sandwich-yuck). 

After breakfast, we drove to Stinson Beach and around the Muir Woods area for a bit. 
We didn't stop because we wanted to head to Sausalito, but we saw parts of it. 
After that, we drove into Sausalito and spent a couple hours here. 
They had a huge art festival going on so there were a lot of people out and about and spending time outside.

 We grabbed lunch at the Salsalito Taco Shop and loved it here!
 It's just a small mexican restaurant with an outdoor patio that serves homemade tortilla chips and different salsas. I wasn't very hungry since I had a bigger breakfast, so I just decided to eat an entire basket of chips and bean dip, but Billy got a shrimp taco and liked it. 

I also got one of their margaritas which was the perfect afternoon cocktail, if I do say so myself. ;)

When we finished exploring Sausalito, we headed into the city and went to Golden Gate Park, got the cable car experience one has to do while in the city, explored Union Square, and we ended the evening by doing a 2 hour sunset wine tasting boat cruise! 

The boat cruise we did was through San Francisco Bay Boat Cruise, and our specific cruise was called Wine Tasting On The Bay.

They are a family operated business and are the absolute sweetest!! 
We highly recommend taking a boat cruise with them. They are affordable, great people to talk to, and you get 4 wine tastings with your ticket! They also had cheese, crackers, and some fruit to pair with your wine. At the end of the cruise, we were able to see the city all lit up at night and it was gorgeous. 

It was the perfect end to our {somewhat} relaxing day! 
Let's take a moment to talk about how much better looking he is than me.
 Love that smile.

After our boat cruise, we walked as fast as we could to the authentic Italian restaurant called Cafe Puccini on Columbus Ave. The daughter who was working on our boat cruise recommended this place to us (she is a vegetarian as well) and told us they have the best spinach ravioli in the world, and she was NOT KIDDING! 

O.M.G. The ravioli here is amazeballs, end of story.
 I wish upon every star that they would deliver from SF to Ohio. I'm not sure if that is ever going to happen, but a girl can dream. I would pay big dollars for that! 
I got the spinach ravioli, and Billy got the regular. Both equally amazing, but I'm partial to the spinach (it has way more flavor). Unfortunately, I don't have any pictures because it only took me .5 seconds to inhale my meal and there was no time to stop eating for a picture, but please take my word for it and go. 

The following morning until early afternoon, we explored our last final stops in the city. 

We drove around the Marina area and then ended up parking by Alamo Square, which is just the cutest area and we fell in love with this part of the city.

Alamo Square is also where the Painted Ladies are!

aka where the credits of the show Full House was filmed.

Have Mercyyyy...

 

From there, we were on our way to drive the PCH all the way to Carmel (took us about 3 hours).  If you are doing this drive and want a faster route, take 101. If you want the scenic route with amazing mountain/cliff views, take 1. We took 1 and boy, am I glad we did! We took our time driving and stopped at several areas along the way to get out of the car and take in all the views.

My eyes couldn't get enough of this...

The last part of our trip features Carmel, Big Sur, and Monterey!
{and also a special 2 year anniversary picture...}

PS-I'm putting together a post with details on all of my outfits during this trip since I've had some emails and questions about them!
 Stay tuned if you're interested.

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