San Francisco Weekend

For Christmas, I gave Haws a weekend trip to San Fran. We were only there for 2 nights, but of course... I had planned for us to get as much in as possible. Haws at one point said he wanted to take a nap. Unfortunately, that was not on the itinerary :)

We got in Sat afternoon and headed out to the Wharf for Clam Chowder in bread bowls and a night tour to Alcatraz. I met a nice man on the cable car names "motor mouth Bob" who gave me maps to the city and tips on the best places to see. He talked with me the whole ride... he really did live up to his name. I was saddened by the fact the clam chowder had bacon in it (I don't dig on swine), so I had to settle for veggie chili while Haws enjoyed the Manhattan clam chowder I had looked forward to eating. Then we set sail to Alcatraz. To our dismay, we discovered that the battery in our camera was dying and this was the only picture we got for the whole night. This tour in amazing! I definitely recommend it to anyone going to SF. Crazy the things that went on here and these little cells the prisoners lived in. After the tour... we met up with our friends Paul and Rebecca who were also visiting SF for the weekend. We ate at Kuletos, a nice Italian restaurant in Union Square. Thanks to Rebecca who found a cockroach crawling along the wall by our table, we got the meal for FREE! We then walked for about an hour to find Cafe Jacqueline's for chocolate souffles. It is a very small place, reservations are needed, but the souffles are huge and so worth it!

The next morning we went to church where I sat right behind a girl I use to go to the Church Youth Dances with. Such a small world!

For brunch, we went to Sear Fine Food. This place is classic and I think one of our favorite places. Haws had 18 mini pancakes and I had the veggie omelette, delish!

We didn't eat at Lori's Diner, but I had to take a pic by it. There are at least 3 of these in the city.

For some reason... Haws really liked this hot dog sign and felt the need to take his photo in front of it also.

Our Tours Guides

Later that day, my cousin Nicole and her husband Ty with little Cambria were nice enough to take us on a tour around the city. We walked down to Fisherman's wharf where Haws got a little present from one of the seagulls while we were looking at the sea lions. Luckily, Nicole was fully equiped with baby wipes.

We headed across the Golden Gate bridge for some more photo ops. It was so cold!!! I could only manage to get out of the car long enough to take these.

The next morning we went for a walk through Presidio Park and got some more good shots of the bridge.

Next we headed to the Explortorium. I think this place might have been even cooler if we had kids... but we found it to be fun running around looking at all the "senses" exhibits.

I think Haws looks like a Leprechaun in this picture! The big chair makes him look so small and that red hair... to bad we left the green leotard and tights at home.

We tried to take some pics in the distorted room, but the kids were bouncing around attacking us, so this is what we got.

The weekends was a success and we had so much fun. Especially being able to visit with family and friends while we were there as well as spend some quality time together. We were pretty exhausted after this trip... but we recuperated in enough time to drive to Vegas for the night the following Sat. Those pics are to come...