A Day in San Francisco

San Francisco!

You can't come here and not spend a day (or more if you have time) in the city.  There was so much to see and do we couldn't fit it all in.  

We started on Lombard Street - said to be the crookedest and steepest street in the world (actually untrue -but so fun to drive down and amaze people with)

 From there we headed over to AT&T Park - Home of the San Francisco Giants

 the Giants are #1

 a little stroll along the outside of the stadium

then over to lunch at Red's Java House - yum great burgers & beer

then we were off to Pier 39 - wow is that place crowded - fun to walk around and snack & shop

a nice view of Alcatraz from the pier

a little action on the street

and a stop near the Golden Gate Bridge

It was such a fun day but so hard to end it.  After dinner (Teresa finally got her steak and potato's) we had to say bye.  The tears were flowing but we hope to make it out there soon to see everyone so we just have to look forward to that.
We had such a great time over the week and are still using our Southern accents from time to time y'all!

Go SF Giants!

We were in the city the other day (that's an entire other post with tons of pictures I need to get working on) and were inspired to get tickets to a SF Giants baseball game.  It's something we've been talking about doing since the spring and Cooper knew Sunday's game - against the Arizona Diamondbacks - was a free kids jersey giveaway day.  So, we got some tickets and headed to the game.  To beat the traffic/parking/bridge toll/stress, we took the ferry into the city.  Something the kids and I had never done before.  From the ferry building we (again Cooper's persistence) we took a bike taxi - I'm sure they have some cool name but I don't know it.  That guy had some strong legs to taxi our family to the ballpark. 

Here we are on the bike taxi

 Cooper is ready for some action - This shot made the jumbo tron during the game!

 A little cold on the morning ferry ride.

 Part of Friday's motivation was Cameron and Eddie running into the coach Bruce Bochy outside the stadium.  Eddie got him to take a picture with Cameron! Yay Eddie

 Eddie & Cameron enjoying the boat ride

 Pre-game action.

 Can you tell what team we were routing for?

 Game time!

We had so much fun at the game.  They ended up loosing but it was a great game & beautiful weather! WOO HOO - go Giants!