Focht Family Blog

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….

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.

Here is Nathan and Samantha on the beach…

Josh wasn’t sure if he wanted to get too close to the water so he tried out different rocks to sit on…

Samantha and Timmy finally covinced him to get a little closer…

I guess he got a little too close…

He decided to go back to a new rock…

I had to get a close up of his feet because they had so much sand on them…

Nathan decided to sit down in a safe place where our shoes were…

I was taking pictures and then noticed my shoe go floating by me and it dawned on me that my shoe was up far enough that it shouldn’t be in the water. All 8 (kids and me) shoes had been taken by a wave that had come up higher than we expected. Nathan managed to rescue them all. Then we put them up on a higher rock instead of the sand. When another wave took them out to sea again, we decided to call it quits and climb back up the rocks. Of course, Nathan came to our rescue again and managed to get all of the shoes back. Needless to say we all returned to the RV soaked! :)

I had so many good pictures (I took 85) that I had a hard time deciding which ones I wanted to put up so I decided I would divide them into three posts. Two posts with pictures of the family and one post with just pictures of the scenery. We had to walk down a rock incline that the kids did very good at. Here is a look at the rocks we climbed down.

Timmy made it down first and went to the edge of where the water was and then a wave hit him and knocked him over. His shoes came off and Nathan had to make the first of a few shoe rescues of the day. First we took pictures of Nathan and I with the kids with the ocean behind us.

Nathan and the kids were enjoying watching the waves…

Timmy and Samantha were playing with the sand…

Until a large wave came too close…

Timmy didn’t appreciate being hit by a wave for the second time…

I took the kids to the playground…

Then they talked me into taking them to the pool….

Looks like we are turning into the crazy people who are swimming in January but compared to the weather we have been in the last few weeks it is blistering hot. :) Not quite but it is nice to have the windows open all day and a wonderful ocean breeze. Now we are off to put our feet in the Pacific Ocean. Pictures to follow when I get back…