SF TRIP
What a fun day we had in San Francisco. My friend Wendy and I decided that since it was so hot where we were at we would beat the heat and take a trip to SF for the day. The dads had to work and they hate going to SF so it is left up to us to do those trips on our own. So what a perfect day to do it. So we loaded up all six of us in Greg's car because neither of us wanted to navigate our big huge trucks through SF. Well of course I left my camera in my truck so we had to go a bit out of our way to Stockton to get it from Greg at work. After picking up the camera, going through the Jack in the Box drive through to get everyone drinks, getting gas, and stopping to pee we finally made it over the Bay Bridge about 12:30pm. Well I am following the signs just as any good driver would do and boom they just stop. So what happens but we get lost, LOL. Well after driving around and finding a person who can speak English we get directions to where we need to go which was the pier. At around 2:00 pm after navigating through traffic, (yes we were thrilled at this time that we did not have the truck, LOL) we finally got ot our destination and found parking. Immediately we all made a mad dash for the famous restaurant on the pier called Alioto's. They have really delicious food. A bit pricy but right up there in cost with the rest of the SF restaurants. Of course our kids being of the Country nature know nothing about fine dining, LMAO. My kids couldn't figure out why I was tipping the girl in the bathroom, or why I wasn't all too pleased when Caden spilled his water EVERYWHERE!!!! But that is okay I love them just the way they are. We ate a delicous lunch and headed off to enjoy the wharf. We really wanted to take the kids to Alcatraz but the tours were booked all the way through Monday. So that was no longer an option. Okay never fear SF has tons to offer. So we opted for a trip through the SF bay Aquarium on the pier. The kids had a blast going through the water tunnels filled with sharks and all kinds of tropical fish. Seeing the eggs and ambryos of soon to hatch Skater fish, and of course had a blast in the touching pools. The Rays were so friendly that everytime they felt the water move they immediatly swam up to get petted. Caden's favortie was the leopard shark pups. He thought that was really cool. He also thought it was really cool to see Sea Stars with fish in their tentacles to eat them. After about an hour in the Aquarium we headed off to explore the rest of the wharf and all its offering. But of course we did not make it out of the Aquarium without a quick trip through the gift shop where Caden talked me into a "Toob of Sharks" and Devan a Hump back Whale stuffed animal. Money well wasted, LOL. From their we hit the famous Carousel by the sea. We all of course had to ride. But Wendy and I opted for the benches on the second story so we could just relax, LOL. The kids of course made a mad dash for the spinning thing. From there we ventured over to hat mania where Wendy's kids talked their mother into some hats. On to get some refreshment of ice cream and warm hot donuts. While the kids were busily choosing their treats I walked over to the famous Boudin bakery to pick up some fresh sour dough bread to bring home. By this time we are thoroughly exhausted and decide it is time to make our trek home. I hand over my keys to Wendy as I hate maneuvering my way through the hellacious traffic of SF. On our way out we grabbed a couple of pints of the famous SF clam chowder and a to go dish of Shrimp cocktail. Unbelievably it took us half the time to get home as it did to get there. Go figure but all in all it was a great day. Although my wonderful friend Wendy came up with a really funny new saying while on the road for those of us with severe road rage. She was trying to merge into a lane and there was a car full of Arab people not letting us in. So she so lovingly spouts out "I let you into my country, and you won't even let me into the lane!" Okay I just about died right there. I laughed so hard. So this is now our new saying as of course we thought it was so darn funny that we said it about everything going on while driving the freeways. Yes we are weird but just cop it up to a bit of insanity driven by a long day in SF with four children, LOL. This is a picture of the four kids together as we were leaving the pier with a sculpture of two sea lions. I will post more pictures later. Hope you enjoyed our little outing to the big city! 
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So I told Scott all about this post and he said see.. that is why she is awesomely cool Amy..
All the things you did are things Scott and I would love to do. He loves animals and aquariums. You have no idea.. now the merry go round that would be my fun thing.
Scott would love to go through a tour at THE ROCK! If you ever do that he is going to be green..
It sounds like an awesome day.. I love the photos...
Wish I was there...
Sounds like you guys had a great time! My kids haven't been to an aquarium yet so we're planning on going when we're in Denver. I'm sure they'll love it! SF sounds very cool!
Wow! It sounds awesome! Nick and Blake would love the aquarium!
You're a brave, brave woman.
sounds liek you all had an awesome time lololol love the pictures :)
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