San Francisco 2016

We drove up to the bay area on Friday and met with my long time friend Julie, her husband and youngest son Jack who is now 8 years old. We had a wonderful visit as I have not seen Julie in a long time. I neglected to take any photos.

We stayed in an Airbnb in Berkeley. It was a back house with a bed, sofa bed, kitchenette and bathroom. It was the perfect set up for our family and it was nice to have some meals in the cottage. They also had a chicken coop in the backyard and one morning I did not like the chicken coop but that was ok.

Saturday morning was a beautiful day in San Francisco. We met some nice people who were willing to take a picture of us, of course Jacob declined. We had wonderful pastries by the bay.

Our morning activity was the Exploratorium.

Jacob enjoyed this exhibit the most; strandbeest.  Jacob teases me for taking pictures of people's backs but when he won't cooperate for a picture what choice do I have. 

I thought this was a cool exhibit; Scott Weaver's 100,000-toothpick sculpture.

We headed out for quite the walk to our lunch destination.

We walked a lot of hills that day. Jacob of course had a blast with it.

We ate lunch at Golden Boy Pizza. The walls were covered with stickers and they played heavy metal music. Jacob and I deemed it "sketchy" but of course it was fine and good pizza.

Jacob is learning to take pictures of his food too:)

The red building is the pizza joint.

We ended our day with a Cable Car ride to the museum.

It was fun watching how it all worked. Our dinner plans included meeting up with Howard and Margi. Again we forgot to take pictures but dinner included Mexican food, almost an entire challah and dessert. Balanced meal right?

On Sunday we went to the botanical gardens at UC Berkeley with Michael's friend Abe, his wife Layla and their two daughters.

Jacob was the only one who remembered to take pictures.

The gardens were beautiful despite the hot day.

At the end of our day we did go to the University campus a bit. I had never been to UC Berkeley so it was fun to see. I did not realize how old the college was, established in 1868. All in all it was a great trip and we look forward to going back especially for the food.