I didn't want to go to Alcatraz but everyone else did so I went along. I LOVED it! I was so into the tour and everything there. The tour was great. I really did not know anything about Alcatraz before I went on the tour. It was an audio tour. We walked around all the different parts of the island but the best was the acutal cell block. The audio had some acutal inmates on it. They spoke about the different things that went on at Alcatraz. There was one part where one of the ex inmates spoke about one of the escape attempts. Life in Alcatraz was brutal. There was an ex inmate there on the island the day that we were there. He had written a book about his time at Alcatraz. I bought the book and he signed it for me. Lyndsay read the book on the airplane on the way home so I have not had a chance to read it yet, but it is next on my list. ( I know, I know, I wasn't supposed to buy anymore books till I had finished the one's I already have!)

The pictures that are on the top of the page are taken at Alcatraz. One is a cell and one is of the apartments where the employees and thier families lived. I had no idea that entire families lived on Alcatraz while the prisioners were there. The children rode a ferry into San Francisco each day to school. Some days there would be inmates on the ferry home with them! Can you imagine? The other picture is a picture of Brenda and I on the boat on the way over to the island. It was great.

I need to figure out how to arrange pictures in my posts so they aren't all at the top. I will add more entries about my vacation and the marathon.