Thursday, June 14, 2007

SAN FRANCISCO

On our way to Hawaii we stopped in California to visit Kami. She lives in Pleasonton which is only about 25 min (depending on crappy California traffic) from San Francisco. We flew in on Friday and stayed with her until our flight left to Hawaii on Tuesday. It was really good to see her and spend some time with her and be able use her car! As soon as we got in we dropped our stuff off at her apartment and headed into San Francisco. Here are some pictures of our San Francisco adventures.
Aquarium by the Bay. We walked through an underwater tunnel where we saw tons of sharks, sting rays, crabs, and a bunch of other fish and sea creatures I don't know the names of. Later we got to go to some pools where we could touch sharks, sting rays, and starfish.

Kami and I on Pier 39. You can see Alcatraz in the back ground.
We hiked about a billion steps to reach Coit Tower. But, the billion steps didn't seem so bad because they were surrounded by this pretty garden.


The streets in SF are extremely steep. I don't know what was more scary, Kami driving up the really steep streets in her manual Saturn or Kami driving down the "crookedest street in the world" better known as Lombard Street. Sometimes she thinks her Saturn is a race car!

Golden Gate Bridge. Mark Twain once said, "The coldest winter I ever experienced was the summer I spent in San Francisco." We found this to be very true. It was extremely cold and windy. Clayton: I was CONSTANTLY made fun of by my wife and her sister for quoting this famous comment by Mark Twain... funny thing is, about 600 other people have quoted it as well whenever we talk about San Francisco!!! Kiss my butt historic figure and quote haters (ie Kami and Heidi)!!!

These houses are known as "The Painted Ladies". To many of us they are probably better known as "The Full House Houses".

Before we went to the Full House Houses, Clayton wanted to stop and rent a Golden Retriever so we could be like the Tanner's with their dog Comet. We were lucky to find on in the park right in front of the Full House Houses.


We took a ferry to Alcatraz. Once there we took an audio tour of the prison. It was VERY interesting. Bottom pic is a veiw of SF from Alcatraz.












Us at the Oakland Temple before we went in to do a session.


1 comment:

Kami said...

Hey take that back! i am the one of the most safest drivers... And about my Saturn being a race car.. interesting... i guess the freeway in cali sure showed it...