Sunday, January 4th 2009. Today was the first official day of my Macworld festivities. My first Macworld SF was in 2004 and I started doing these events in 2005. Today was brunch at Sugar Cafe and our annual city tour of San Francisco. Both were fun filled and the city tour was very tiring.
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In 2007, I conducted the city tour but due to a mishap with the cable car schedule, we ended up walking the 15 person tour group up Powell street to Fishermans Wharf. It’s a walk that’s doable but no one wants to do it. Luckily, things were a little easier this year. This morning at 9AM I met up with nearly 15 people at Sugar Cafe as we took over an entire section to drink bottomless $10 mimosas and enjoy some free wi-fi. Some people took advantage of the brunch items as well but most of us just geeked out. That went until 1PM when it was time for many of us to trek down to The Apple Store to meet up with everyone else for the city tour.
The annual city tour kicked off just after 1PM and went through 9PM this year. Quite a day for a bunch of geeks :). We walked over to Powell Street where the cable cars pickup and snapped some photos. Then took the cable car over to Fishermans’ Wharf. I took everyone to In-N-Out burger ( a local favorite) and we continued through Fishermans Wharf stopping at many attractions. Finally, a steep walk up to Coit Tower right before sunset so photographers could snap photos of the sunset over San Francisco. We finished up with a bus ride back to Fishermans’ Wharf and a street car ride back to 3rd and Market streets. The tour finished with us picking up our Macworld badges and I explained local places to eat, coffee joints and the various Moscone Center buildings on the block. Then, a 2 hour dinner at Bucca Di Beppo was in order as we crammed 25 people into a room for a huge feast!
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What an amazing evening we had and it was all a part of DAY 1 of Macworld partying. I love helping to bring Mac users together and I hope everyone had a fantastic time. Drinks, touring, photographs, making friends and feasting on Italian food. I can’t believe it’s only Sunday and we have 6 more days of Macworld events. The photos that I used were taken today on the city tour. More photos will be available by tomorrow on our Flickr Group.