Bridging from Juniors to Cadettes in San Francisco

The following is a guest post written by k.  This is the trip she raised money for by selling hundreds of boxes of Girl Scout cookies!

From the weekend April 27th to April 29th, I went to San Francisco with my Girl Scout troop to bridge, which means to move from one level to the next.  A lot of other Juniors crossed the Golden Gate bridge to move on to Cadettes as well.

Around 9:00 am, the whole troop flew up to San Francisco.  I sat next to two of my friends on the plane and had fun talking and eating snacks the whole way.

After we dropped off our bags at the hotel, we got on the boat to take us to Alcatraz.  It was cold and windy, mainly because we were on the third deck.  We were all excited to see the prison, especially since most of us have not been there before.

Everyone in my troop at Alcatraz Island.

We did an audio tour of Alcatraz that explained many things about the prison in great detail.  It was really interesting and had a lot of sound effects that made it really dramatic.  I had fun walking into the cells and seeing what the prisoners life was like when they were living there.

We also did Junior Ranger books and earned a badge that is supposed to smell like a campfire.

There were a lot of seals on one dock in Pier 39, and one of the girls in my Girl Scout troop got really excited when she saw them because she really loves seals.

After getting dinner at Boudin, we decided to walk around the city to look around the shops and see interesting places in the city including Fisherman’s Wharf.

The next day, we had a to wait forever in order to get on the bridge.  This was because there were around 7,000 Girl Scouts waiting to cross the bridge.  10 and 11 year old girls were taking over the city!

Crossing the Golden Gate bridge.

This was our rest stop.  It was about 2/3 of the way through.

When we finally made it across the bridge and got to Crissy field, we had a Panera box lunch after a lot of walking.

Later, our troop had the chance to go on a cable car.  It was very crowded, but it was especially fun because we got to hang on the outside of the car.  It was also exciting because San Francisco has very steep streets which made the car go a lot faster.

After that, we went to Fior da Italia.  It was a great Italian restaurant and very fancy.  I ordered Fettuccine Alfredo, and it was so good.

This was the last breakfast at the hotel.

We saw the most crooked street in the world.  I cannot imagine living in a house on this street.

The Ghirardelli shop was our last stop.  There was so much chocolate in the store!  We got an ice cream sundae to split between the troop and it was very sweet and had a lot of chocolate components.  Overall, it was a great weekend.