San Francisco Day

Time to head home... a new way of travelling around the city.

A picture for my pal, Abigail...for old time's sake.


Sleepy California Sea Lions.


Shrimp at Bubba Gumps. Yum!


A sneak preview of some of the glass. Now you have to go to see the rest. It is spectacular!


Todd posed by the Hammond paper exhibit at the de Young.


Barbara and Sue showing how "life imitates art".



Here we are, Barbara, Sue, Aimee, Todd and Noelle. We are all happy and ready to spend the day in San Francisco.



Instead of more babies or weddings, today I'll tell you about our most perfect mini vacation last Wednesday.

Sue, Todd, Aimee, Noelle and I all piled into Sue's nice roomy car and off we went about 9:30am.
Our first stop was a little tour of Krispy Kreme donuts. Thanks to Pastor Exter's sermon last
Sunday, Barbara knew the exact exit for Krispy Kreme's-Apian Way!

So after such a happy start, we drove into San Francisco and found a parking spot right near the de Young Museum. It was just a short walk to the museum. We spent a couple of hours at the beautiful Chihuly blown-glass art exhibit. It was amazing.

Then we drove over to Fisherman's Wharf, parked in the public parking lot and strolled over to Pier 39 for lunch at Bubba Gump's. We all had delicious shrimp lunches. After that, we walked out on the pier and watched the California Sea Lions basking in the sun.

We walked off our lunches by touring Fisherman's Wharf and walking to Ghirardelli Square.
It was quite crowded so we managed to leave without buying any chocolate!

The weather was perfect (for me). A nice cool day with foggy sea air felt very refreshing before we headed back to 90 degree weather at home.

If you are interested, we will post the rest of the pictures on flickr soon.