San Francisco

If you are going to San Francisco - be sure to wear some flowers in your hair - yep couldn't stop singing that all day long! We started off the day at Lombard street - the most crookedest street in the world and huge tourist destination - luckily we got there early enough in the day that the crowds had not yet arrived!

We gave the kids a little speech about what San Fran is known for and apparently we scared poor Trent because he did not want to get out of the car for the picture - woops!

Next on the itinerary was walking the Golden Gate Bridge. We ended up parking a little far from the actual bridge. It was a really nice walk but by the time we got to the bridge we had walked probably 2 miles already. Although it was a beautiful day, with blue skies, right over the bridge and out to sea it was completely foggy - couldn't believe it!


On the bridge it is really loud and really windy - the younger kids were tired (and maybe a little scared - but they wont admit it) so we barely walked a portion of it before we turned around.
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Next we were going to take the kids on a cable car ride - ummm that changed real fast when we saw the line and found out it was a 1 and 1/2 hour wait- not! It was a Saturday in the middle of August which is probably as about peak tourist season as you could get and the city was a complete zoo! In stead we caught the bus. The kids thought this was great and loved every second of it -phew!


We went to Union Square in the heart of the city and walked around a little bit. WOW you name the fancy store and it was there -I think Hayley was dying a little bit because we barely got to go into any stores - poor girl. There were definitely some interesting people to watch - one of my favorite sports!

So overall we were glad to show the kids the city but even more glad to get out of there. It was beyond crowded - Chad detests crowds and it was too much for me too! Just finding lunch was a joke - we didn't even attempt Fisherman's Wharf and that clam chowder (didnt want to push it)