Lunch and Snack take in the City by The Bay ~ May, 2008.

Lunch and Snack start their trip with a stop at Golden Gate National Recreation Area at the Marin Headlands of the Golden Gate. They were awed by the spectacle of the bridge.

The Transamerica Building peeks out from behind the Marin-side tower, leaving the cows moo-less.

The cows pay homage to the Transamerica Building, the signature building of the San Francisco skyline.

"Gee, Lunch. It's really tall!" (853 feet to be exact).

Lunch and Snack take a boat ride to Alcatraz Island, site of the infamous U.S. penitentiary and now a historic site adminstered by the National Park Service.

"Wow Lunch, these are some pretty scary looking buildings."

A stroll through the prison cell blocks gives visitors a sense of a life of incarceration.

The cows take a peek in a restored cell.

"Gosh Snack, this must have been a very dreary existence behind bars."

Lunch and Snack join the tourists in the courtyard outside the Alcatraz prison administration building.

"Can you belive that people used to live here???"

In fact, the island was a prison since 1861 and was a military fort beginning in the 1850s.

A statue of Christopher Columbus stands in front of the Coit Tower on Telegraph Hill. But the cows were more interested in the greenery surrounding the statue. It was almost dinner time, after all ...

The panoramic view of the San Francisco skyline from the top of Coit Tower was worth delaying the evening graze for a little bit.

The cows can barely contain their excitement with the prospect of a cable car ride. This is the hand-powered turntable at the end of the Powell & Hyde street line near Fisherman's Wharf.

"Hang on! There's another cable car approaching!"

Lunch and Snack stop at the San Francisco Cable Car Museum on Nob Hill. Besides being the powerhouse for the entire cable car system, the museum has numerous historic cars from past cable lines.

"Clang! Clang!" The Powel & Market cable car approaches the turntable at the end of the line at Market Street.

The spiral escalators in the central atrium of the Westfield San Franciso Center shopping center were an impressive sight. The mall is the largest west of the Mississippi River.

"This is so romantic!"

The cows watch the sunset from the Pacific shoreline near Golden Gate Park. What a perfect way to end a visit to the bay area.