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San Francisco – Lombard Street and the Trolley

January 21, 2009 California, Family Fun No Comments

On our way down to the wharf we decided to drive some of San Francisco’s famous streets. We just had to drive Lombard. It looks like a tight zig zag on the GPS. :) Here are some pictures that I took overlooking the city from the top of the hill and one of the zig zag road as we were on it…

As you get to the start of the zig zags it has a sign saying that vans and buses are not allowed. I think if you had anything bigger than the truck you would not have been able to make the turns. After driving the streets and looking at Pier 39 we decided to walk along the wharf and take a trolley to the end of the line and back. Here is the trolley as it was being turned around before we got on.

Here is a picture of my mom and the family sitting on the trolley…

My mom tried to get a picture of the family and me but just as she snapped it the conductor went by and we had to get back off the trolley. Nathan took a picture of me with the kids with the trolley behind us…

And one of my favorites of the day.. the boys were complaining about having to walk so Nathan decided to give them both a lift…

Tomorrow we leave here early and head to get the hitch replaced and then it will be on to Bakersfield where we will be staying for a couple of days in an orange grove. :)

San Francisco – Pier 39

January 21, 2009 California, Family Fun No Comments

Pier 39 is where the California Sea Lions have taken over. It looks to me like they have put in floating docks for them to keep them off of the boat slips but we still saw a couple laying on boat slips. Here are the kids posing on a sculpture.

This is a picture of the Pier 39 sign with a seal next to it…

And another of a mound of seals on one of the floats…

One of the best parts of Pier 39 was the chance to get some really good pictures of Alcatraz and what would have been a great picture of the Golden Gate Bridge if it hadn’t been so overcast…

Next post is Lombard Street and the trolley….

Golden Gate and Jelly Belly

January 20, 2009 California, Family Fun, Garnets No Comments

This morning we got up early and went to Jelly Belly to meet one of the Garnet moms, Jill. We decided to go over the Golden Gate Bridge to get to the Jelly Belly Factory. Here is a picture of the bridge as we were getting on it and one as we were going over it.

We arrived a little bit early at Jelly Belly so I took some pictures of the artwork in the lobby…

These were pictures that were created like mosaics with Jelly Belly beans.

Samantha, Timmy, and Josh decided to sit by the stairs while we waited…

We were not allowed to take pictures on the tour but here are the boys right before the tour began…

After the tour was over we did a bit of shopping (of course) and now everyone has Jelly Belly beans to last for months. :) We decided to skip the cafe at the factory and instead went to a nearby mall and ate at a Red Robin. Here is a picture of Jill and I with all of the kids outside of the Red Robin. Her Garnet baby is Leah and she also has a little boy named Nolan who is a little older than one.

Joshua and Leah played a game of chase around a pillar. I couldn’t manage to catch them both in the same picture but here is Joshua running around the pillar after Leah and one of Leah waiting for Josh to come back around the pillar…

We had a great time. Tomorrow we will go and do the San Francisco tourist thing and ride the trolley and go to Fisherman’s Wharf. I will post pictures tomorrow night.

What NOT to do with boiling water…

January 20, 2009 California, The Bad Days No Comments

#1: DO NOT pour boiling water on your leg…

Last night while making dinner I tried to put the oven rack in the oven. It was sitting next to the fold up counter behind the stove. The rack hit the fold up counter which slid down throwing the pan of boiling water off of the stove and onto me.

I am thankful that Nathan was thinking more clearly than me and he got me into the shower very quickly with cool water. I called Nurse One who said NOT to put any type of lotion or oils on it because it would trap the heat. Then I called my friend Roger who is an ER nurse to find out what they would do at the hospital and it seems that the only reason to suffer without the cool water would be to get pain medication so I stayed home and Nathan went and got me some gauze.

Today it looks horrible and is blistered but it is not hurting! :)