Six Days...Into the Haze

It really was a hazy day today! The first day all week that the sun hardly shone at all.

After an early morning meeting with one of our instructors, Randy in my case, to begin to prepare our resumes, we had a a free day to explore the city.
I met up with Emily, the other Photographer in the group and we went to the Yerba Burna Gardens http://tinyurl.com/6ana9s, a major redevelopment area devoted to art, theater, entertainment and children. It's Center for the Arts has galleries, a media room and a 755-seat theater. There is also a 5-acre esplenade, outdoor stages, ice skating rink and a 12-lane bowling center, a day-care center and a children's gardening center. We shot waterfalls, flowers, and the Martin Luther King Memorial Waterfall, where the inscription reads:

"...we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream."

Martin Luther King, 1963, Washington DC


After that, Emily and I met up with Mike and Judy (they are from Michegan, Washington DC and South Carolina) and we took an open-top guided bus tour of the city. This was fun and we got to see again all the sights that we will be guiding our group thru tomorrow. Hopefully with better results than the first time we did it. Because this time we will actually be evaluated on our performance as the final exam for the first week.

Our open-air journey took us over the Golden Gate Bridge and "into the haze." It's a good thing that it was such a fantastic spectacle because otherwise I would have realized how utterly freezing I was. As we crossed over the bridge it was literally being swallowed by the descending fog...


We had lunch at Pier 39, did some window shopping, bought

Ghirardelli Chocolate, and took the tour bus back to Union Square to return to our hotels to hit the books again.