Today was a fun-packed day! Lots of photos that I took to show you.

Took the bus to Golden Gate Park. One of the first things we saw was a very twisted tree-trunk. Amazing!

A little bit further on, we saw what we thought was a bird pecking at the grass. When we got closer, we found it was...........

...... a baby skunk. We made sure that we stayed in front of it!!!!

There was a lovely lake........

.... in which, together with lots of different ducks and geese, ............

...... a turtle, sunning itself on a little rock.

Next, we went off to the Japanese Tea Garden. Most of this was put into place 100 years ago.
There were bonsai landscapes - these are trees that have been specially cultured to grow very small even when quite old.

There were pagodas and Japanese bridges - all 100 years or more old.

Then, when we got out of the Japanese Tea Garden, we spotted some planes doing writing in the sky.

Sorry - from where we were standing, it was upside down!

The we went to Haight Ashbury on the bus. The Hippie area.

We looked round lots of shops and had a yummy drink and cake in "Coffee to the People" cafe.

And I could not go home without the badge...........................

Love and Peace, Hester.