Their answer seems to be: you don't! At least, this was what I concluded from the hour-plus quest for a parking spot and the mile-long queue of people winding out of the door. It's almost worth paying $25.
Anyway, not to be disheartened, Dana and I (the usual suspects on these Haas partner trips) spent the day sightseeing beaches and other local beauty spots around the city. We got to the Sutro Baths - the ruins of a million-dollar Victorian leisure complex down by the sea - several beaches, a Japanese tea garden, and even crammed in a walk over the Golden Gate Bridge.
Watch out tomorrow when there's a change of scene! Hannah's in the finals of a business case competition in Boulder, Colorado, and I'm going along for the ride...
The first 2% of the queue to get in. Did I mention that you then queue inside for the rainforest, Planetarium, etc.
Ahhhhh, this is much more restful. Golden Gate Park's Japanese tea garden - free before 10am on Wednesdays! There were several museum queue refugees here with us.
The men of experiment are like the ant; they only collect and use. But the bee gathers its materials from the flowers of the garden and of the field, but transforms and digests it by a power of its own. ~ Leonardo da Vinci (I guess he couldn't get into the science museum either)
Dana and some bamboo.
Symmetry of a pagoda.
The city's on the right and the Pacific's on the left; this is what's in between!
Hmmmm.
This one seems fairly happy.
A helpful sign when you're stood on a beach.
The ruins of Sutro Baths. This is what they used to look like.
The familiar bridge.
The Pacific.
The Pacific, me, Dana.
