Our Trip to San Fransisco!!

Day 1

We left for San Fransisco on Thursday the 27th at about 4:30 pm with our friends Aaron, Shereena and their baby Colter. Jessica and Kevin (our awesome brother and sister) let us borrow their van (thank you so so so much--again) so we could all ride together.

The drive was long. It normally would take about 10-11 hours to get to San Fran, but with some delays we had it took about 15 hours. When we were just out of Winnemuca (?) Ganon threw up- alot! I felt so bad for him and everyone else in the car. It stunk so bad. Patrick had to pull over and we changed his clothes and cleaned the car seat the best we could. Unfortunately, the smell really affected Shereena and she started feeling sick. Luckily with the windows rolled down the smell sort of dissipated and we were on our way again. When we got to Donnor's Pass we were passing a ton of diesels that were pulled over. We were wondering what was going on; then not too far up the road we were stopped because it had snowed the day before and the canyon road was iced over for the next two miles. We were told we had to turn around (about 5 minutes back) to buy chains for the van. We were bummed. We just wanted to get to our destination. So we went back and debated whether or not we should spend the $65.00 on chains or not . Then Shereena over heard someone at the gas station say that the pass would be open in about 45 minutes and that we should just wait it out. So, we drove back to where we were stopped and the lady who spoke to us before told us we could absolutely not pass without chains. Patrick, being the savvy one, said we were from Utah and we were accustomed to driving in this type of condition. The lady didn't give in, so we ended up waiting where everyone else was. About 20 minutes later a guy came around announcing that the pass had re-opened and we were good to go. We were very happy to be on our way again. At Sacramento Shereena took the wheel over so Patrick could get at least an hour of sleep, since he was starting to hallucinate. (Patrick loves to drive, but sometimes I don't think he knows his limits. ;) )Well, 1 hour later we finally made it to San Fransisco! YAY!

Day 2

Since our check in time for the hotel wasn't until 3:00 pm we drove to the beach and ate breakfast, which was cereal at about 7:30 am. It was a beautiful morning! It was so cool to watch the Gulls and Crows flying around at the beach. We saw a couple surfers and tons of joggers. At about 9:00 am our agenda for our first day in the city began. We first went to a beautiful park called The Golden Gate Park. It's about 2 miles long in the middle of the city on a hill full of thick green foliage. At the park there are so many things to do! We only had time to do two of the things. We went to this really cool art museum called the de Young Museum.

These are just a few really neat exhibits. Some pictures are on Patrick's I Phone.

Then after we went to the Japanese Tea Gardens. They were very pretty. It was perfect weather the whole weekend. From what I understand we really lucked out.

We thought this was a pretty cool tree.

After, the tea gardens we headed to China Town. Shereena has a grandma that lives there that they were visiting as well. So, they went ahead and visited her and went to lunch. We ate at a yummy authentic Chinese restaurant and then shopped around China Town. It was so much fun!! (I think those pics are on Patrick's phone. I'll upload them later.)We bought some cool things. I even let Patrick buy a set of Samurai swords. Here in Utah they cost about $200.00, but we bought them their for $25.00. What a steal!! I also bought this pretty plate to display, some souvenirs for our parents, a hand held massage thing and a SF hoodie. China Town was probably one of our favorite parts of San Fran. After that we caught up with Aaron and Shereena and went back to our hotel. Our kids were a little cranky by the end of the day so we did our own thing for dinner. We got pizza from this really good pizza joint called Bellissimo's. It was so delicious! Then took the car seat padding and pukey clothes to the laundromat next door to get washed. Then we hit the hay. We were exhausted and excited to start the next day. Stay tuned for days 3 and 4.