On our vacation last week, we stayed in San Francisco for a few nights and then went up the coast to Mendocino. We ate at a lot of nice restaurants and visited the many food-related shops in the Ferry Building on the Embarcadero, which is always fun.
But, of course, Cindy can't just relax on a vacation, there has to be some activity related to gardening or plants, so while we were in San Francisco, she wanted to visit the California Academy of Sciences, located in Golden Gate Park. The building is the largest public building to be rated at the platinum level for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED). It has a 2.5 acre living roof with 1.7 million native California plants and a four story high rainforest. See "About the Building" for more information.
Well, it certainly sounded worthy of a visit, but thanks to a screw-up with our rental car, we never actually got there. Who knew Fiat made cars with transmissions that were both manual and automatic? We didn't-- we couldn't figure out how to shift it out of second gear, making a really interesting adventure driving on the Bay Area freeways, and it sounded like a truck, so we went back over the Bay Bridge and returned it, and by the time we got a different car it was too late to get to the museum.
So we'll save the museum for a future trip.
And just say "no" to anything Fiat makes.
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