my journey, destination unknown
we spent half of our week in San Francisco at my sister’s lovely apartment. Not only is the inside a comfortable place, the rooftop offers some spectacular views of San Francisco! I should have headed up there every morning, evening and night!! This is an entry for Delicious Baby’s Photo Friday.
The girls and I woke early and showered and packed. Around 8, we headed out to walk up to the cable car turnaround. When we got there, the line was minimal, but by the time a cable car arrived, the line had grown quite long. When the cable car arrived, we jumped on. The girls…
The girls and I spent a lovely week in San Francisco. We spent most of the week at Susannah and Louis’s apartment with my parents, then a couple nights in a downtown hotel with Rob. We met up with friends and saw lots of the sights! summary posts: Spring Break Day 3: The Crazy Skies…
I woke early and worked on a few things, then the girls and I joined Rob for the meeting breakfast. It wasn’t very good. We then hung out in the hotel room for a while before walking over to Yerba Buena Gardens, where we explored and then Chloe played on the playground for quite a…
After a slow morning of breakfast, picking up, reading and playing video games, we headed out to catch the bus for the big children’s playground at Golden Gate Park. Both girls ran around the playground for a long time, then we walked over to the museums. Chloe and I went to the California Academy of…
After a quiet morning of breakfast and picking up, we headed out to the playground. It was a chillier day, but the sky was still quite clear and blue. From the playground, we walked up and up and up and then down to the Lands’ End Lookout and then along the beach. There were so…
After an early morning of sunrise, fruit, coffee and yogurt, we headed back up the hill to the Legion of Honor. THough we didn’t go in, we did explore the sculpture garden and the courtyard. We walked back down the other side and ended up at the playground, which thrilled Chloe. Back at the apartment,…
I was up before 5am, taking care of a number of things including making coffee. I managed to get the girls up and ready for the day, then we walked down the street to the Coastal Trail. What a view — and what a hill to climb! At last, we made it up and over!…
Although our flight wasn’t due to leave until 3pm, we had to rise and shine very early. So many chores, so much packing, so much preparations to be done. Folding laundry, emptying dishwasher, cleaning kitty litter, tossing leftovers, loading dishwasher, taking out trash, taking our recycling, picking up, cleaning, sweeping, packing, prepping Phelix for a…
Today’s Highlights: Buying choco rocks at Alien Jerky. Making it through the hot desert without overheating. Walking across the Hoover Dam. Eating dinner near a canal in Venice. Spotting the Brooklyn Bridge and the Eiffel Tower. After making breakfast in the campsite, we packed up and headed out. We stopped first at the yarn store…
Today’s Highlights: Snow! Walking through the trunk of a giant sequoia. Being chased by a Bobcat. Getting absolutely soaked at Bridal Veil Falls. Throwing snowballs at Glacier Point. I woke up early to work and then update the blogs and answer emails. After Rob and the girls got up, we packed up a bit and…
Today’s Highlights: We woke up above the clouds. Chloe finally talked to Mindy. Evie had a little bath. We made it to just outside Yosemite. Because Camille wasn’t feeling well and the raccoons wandering around, we slept in a bit. We hit the road a bit late and then stopped at a Starbucks in Pleasanton…
Today’s Highlights: Visiting with a friend in San Francisco, walking on the Golden Gate Bridge, driving down Lombard Street, having a raccoon steal our bread at 3000 feet up Mount Diablo. I woke very early in order to attend a conference call. Once it was over, I slept for another hour and then we all…
Today’s Highlights: Meeting up with “Aunt Suze” and her friends at the Winchester Mystery House, driving tour of Google and ILOG history, lunch at a crepe place in Palo Alto, new books, spotting dolphins in the bay! We woke before 7. The girls took showers while Rob and I packed up the van. The road…
Today’s Highlights: Bagels and wi-fi at a coffee shop overlooking the Pacific, listening to a kindie band at the Monterey Bay Aquarium, ice cream in the no longer flooded coastal town of Capitola. We woke to the sounds of the ocean. Once we were changed and packed up in the drizzling rain, we headed to…
Today’s Highlights: Visiting a ghost town, going down into an old silver mine, camping at the beach in Morro Bay. I got up early to do some more uploading of photos and other things on the computer. Everyone else got up a little later, and we packed up and left the KOA just a bit…
Today’s Highlights: Watching the sun rise over the Grand Canyon, stopping for lunch at a diner on Route 66 in Kingman, AZ, walking across the London Bridge, not surrendering our apples to the state of CA. I got up around 5am and walked out to the rim to watch the sun come up. Along the…
Labor Day weekend, I headed out to California without kids or husband. They all stayed in Atlanta to head to Dragon*Con. But I was not without family. I spent my west coast weekend with my mom, my dad, my sister and her fiance, seeing the sights and having fun. I am quite certain that this…
Photos from my Labor Day weekend trip to California:
Labor Day weekend, I took my first non-work, kid-free trip (other than an overnight getaway here and there) in over a decade. While it was easier to not have to be in charge and not have to make sure we had all the necessary supplies, I did miss sharing the trip with the girls. This…