Fleet Week -- October 6, 2012

This is a busy weekend in the city with Fleet Week, the Double 10 Parade, the Columbus Day Parade, the America's Cup World Series and Hardly Strictly Bluegrass, the Giants in the playoffs, the 49ers.  We parked at Colma and took BART downtown.  The train was crowded when it arrived at Colma.  Lots of people got off of our train and a Daly City train at the Embarcadero.  There was an F line shuttle bus to Fishermans' Wharf.  We saw Car One.

We went to the Ferry Building and bought some lunch.  We found a bench on the viewing area of the Golden Gate Ferry terminal and ate.  I took this photo of ferry Sonoma.

We walked through the Embarcadero Center and over to Union Square.  We visited Macy's.  We got on another busy BART train at Powell.

We stopped at the Metro Center on the way back and saw the Blue Angels fly past.  

At 5 o'clock mass, my wife and I took the census.

We had dinner at Guerrero's.

The Reds are leading the Giants in the first playoff game. 

Update:  The Giants went on to lose a sloppy game.  

Firehouse #60 -- October 5, 2012

This year the firetruck was back in front of Disneyland's Toontown firehouse.  I like the dog that pops up in one of the windows.  I took the photo during our visit in July.

The Blue Angels were practicing yesterday and today.  We can't see much from the new office. 

The Cardinals were playing the Braves in Atlanta for the new one-game wild card playoff.  With two on and one out, a Brave hit a fly ball to the outfield.  Two Cardinal outfielders let it drop between them.  The crowd cheered until an umpire called the batter out.  The umpire on the left field line had called the infield fly rule.  The fans threw things on the field.  I'm surprised the Atlanta manager didn't get thrown out.  The Braves filed a protest.  Chipper Jones got an official scorer-aided infield hit in his last at bat.  The Cardinals won.