Northern California Nesties
Dear Community,
Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Ideas For First Visit to San Francisco Area
Hi All!
I'm visiting from the DC board and hope you all can give me some advice 
My husband and I would like to take a trip to the San Francisco area in late July/August for about 5 nights/6 days, but have no clue what all we should do once we get there. We like the beach, hiking, and touristy things. We're not big wine drinkers. We're ok with renting a car (If I can do DC traffic can I do traffic there?) if we need to. Any recommendations for things we should do as first timers would be great. Thanks!
Re: Ideas For First Visit to San Francisco Area
Go find a post by MsBlake on Money Matters and check out her blog (linked in her siggy).
Don't get a car if you're primarily planning on staying in San Francisco proper; totally not necessary. If you want to venture farther out though (like 45 mins. north to the redwoods at Muir Woods or a couple of hours south to the Monterey Bay Aquarium), then yes a car is needed.
NorCal is not a beach area so I wouldn't count on doing that.
These first few things are all within the same area
Fisherman's Wharf - the epitome of tourist area. There are some fun sea lions you can see by the pier though.
Alcatraz - very cool tour, get tickets online well advance. Ferry leaves from the Fisherman's wharf area.
Golden Gate Bridge - you can walk, bike, or drive across the bridge and go up to the Marin Headlands for a great photo op. Otherwise, there are lots of areas in the city from which you can just take a look at it.
Lombard Street - aka crookedest street in the world.
Ghiradelli Square - a few blocks from Lombard St., great ice cream.
Shopping
Union Square - a lot of big chain stores and upscale retailers.
Union Street - different from the above, it's more boutiquey and cute.
Museums
MOMA
Asian Art Museum
de Young Museum
Academy of Arts & Sciences
Other
Golden Gate Park - de Young Museum, Japanese Flower Garden, Conservatory of Flowers, and the bison pen are all here.
Muir Woods - beautiful forest and lots of trails to hike/walk.
There might be some street fairs going on while you're in town.
Walking tour of Chinatown
There are free concerts at Stern Grove during the summer
Hope that helps some; have a great trip!
Not much to add to what Rock-N-Voll said, but I went on the SF Vampire Tour and it was a lot of fun and interesting too. You learn a lot of SF history.
http://sfvampiretour.com/