April 8-10, 2010
Santa Clarita, CA-San Francisco, CA
Let me begin by saying that I LOVE San Francisco...it's one of my top favorite cities in the world. We drove up from the LA area and the first thing we did was drive over the Golden Gate Bridge!!! The boys were SOOO excited, and I felt like a kid myself as we got closer and closer to it. We took a couple family pictures and then went into the city to drive down Lombard street (AKA "the crookedest street in the world") which we all laughed and screamed as we went down. Right before it was our turn to go, a car turned in front of us and so we ended up looking at the back of that dumb car the whole way down, but it was still very cool.
After driving down Lombard, we headed into the Union Square district to find our hotel. It was situated in an uber cool part of town, right near Union Square and the Dragon's Gate, which is the official entrance into Chinatown. I think we got the smallest room in the entire city, but it's a blast being here so I don't even care!!
Once we got our bags in and set up the pack and play, we donned our walking shoes and headed towards Fisherman's Wharf and Pier 39. I snapped tons of pictures on the way...and sadly lost them somehow in the downloading process. *sniff sniff* It was an awesome walk, venturing out in such a great city! The boys loved the wharf area, we saw the sea lions and then took them (the boys, not the sea lions) to eat at Bubba Gump Shrimp Company with a stellar view of the bay!! Can you believe it, we got a table right next to the window...at sunset!!! Amazing. We then walked over to the cable cars and stood in line for a long time listening to some panhandler's attempt to sing and woo us over. Not so much. The boys loved the cable cars, and we were all exhausted by the time we got to the hotel.
Tomorrow we meet up with Shannon & Blake (and family) and Lisa & Owen (and Dan)...I can hardly wait!!!
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