Now back to the fun stuff---
Arrival picture - for her mom! Goes to show Baby Girl will always be baby girl. :) |
We left the truck at the airport and rented a car. Max didn't want to drive the truck through the downtown streets of San Francisco, and I sure didn't blame him. That city was not designed to accommodate dually pickups. We spent four days and nights in San Francisco and then drove here to the Turtle for another couple of nights before sending her back home. So much to see...so many experiences...so many memories. Here's a photographic tour down our memory lane.
Open top bus tour around the City |
Union Square |
Found at Williams and Sonoma on Union Square - Pecan Pie in a Jar from San Saba Pecan Company! |
Sourdough bread characters at the Boudin Café. We ate there about three times. Breakfast... late night snack....all good! |
We stayed at the Sheraton on the Wharf. They have these wonderful sitting places outside complete with fire pits. |
Max and Stephanie in front of the Exploratorium, a hands-on science museum. So much fun! |
At the Exploratorium. This special little treat was supposed to show you how the right- and left-hand sides of your face are different. No kidding! |
Transamerica Pyramid Center |
Making fortune cookies in China Town |
An apartment building window. If you can't find all the dried fish you need at the market, make your own! |
They have the best farmer's market at the Wharf |
Ripley's Believe it or Not |
Love this billboard! |
Doug, our tour guide on the Big B Tour Bus. He was awesome! |
I have wondered before if I look silly when I use Bluetooth phone. The answer is yes. |
In the movie "The Pursuit of Happiness", this is the church outside of which Will Smith stood in line for their soup kitchen and a place to sleep. |
And this is the line in real life. The homeless situation in San Francisco is so very sad. |
I wanted to get off the bus and walk around the Haight-Ashbury "hippie" region of San Fran. Max and Stephanie would have nothing of it. |
In the "Pursuit of Happiness", this is the building where Will Smith interned as a stockbroker. "Every office is a corner office." |
Steph's first cable car ride. |
All bundled up for the nighttime bus tour. Man, it was COLD. |
Inside all those layers is our Steph! |
Stephanie said the one place she wanted to make sure she visited - the house from the TV show Full House. We found it! |
The mosaic Moraga Stairs in Japan Town. A little man we met there said he thought they told the story of creation. |
Muir Woods - redwoods about 10 miles outside of San Fran. |
We've been here before, but this was the one place Max definitely wanted to visit again. It's so beautiful and so peaceful. Who would dream it was just outside such a huge city. |
Stephanie and Coit Tower. See those cute boots? One evening when she took them off, she found a needle stuck in the sole of one. A syringe needle. Gives one food for thought. |
Our time ran out in San Francisco and we headed back to the Turtle for a couple of days. We took Highway 1 from Carmel south to Cambria, through Big Sur. It makes for a really long drive going that way (one averages probably 35-40 m.p.h. for that 145-mile section of highway), but it's so beautiful....
Stephanie saw a picture similar to this on Pinterest and wanted to recreate it. We came pretty darn close! |
Sunset over the Pacific. |
The next day we visited Hearst Castle, home to William Randolph Hearst, the gazillionaire newspaper, etc., tycoon in the early 1900's. |
Afterward, we stopped for a stroll along Moonstone Beach. |
And caught another beautiful sunset. |
We sure hated to take her back to the airport. |
Thanks so much for coming to see us, Sweetie! |
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