Hello Blogging world. I am happy to be back home after all our summer adventures. It has been the craziest schedule to date, but everything was wonderful. It was somewhat hard for this homebody to keep going week after week, but it was all worth it.
First things first. From June 9-17 we went on vacation with Mom and Dad to San Francisco! It was stinking awesome. I’ll let the pictures tell the story…
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We drove to Dallas and flew non stop to San Francisco, California! We stayed in hotel #1 and then got up, rented a car…. and stayed in it for the next 2 days. Ha.
We got to see a lot of San Francisco and the central west part of California. I was surprised at how industrial everything looked… It wasn’t really the sunny CA I was expecting. We drove along the coast for… well ever… It was beautiful, but after a few hours going 30 mph around curve after curve in the middle of a mountain, we were happy to find a bigger road.
We made our way through miles of farmland and gorgeous vineyards to see some magnificent redwoods. It was something everyone should see before they die. Add the California Redwoods to your bucket list! It was truly awe-inspiring. Nate says it was the quietest place he has ever been with trees as high as you can see.
My Dad had always wanted to see a Redwood forest, and it was great to get to be there with him.
Next, we stayed at hotel #2 and then made our way through more mountains to good ‘ol Yosemite National Park.
We went to the Hetch Hetchy Dam first, and it was a sight to see. We stayed there for a while just looking at all the waterfalls and the beautiful scenery. You can hike to all the waterfalls, but we only had a limited amount of time before the sun went down, and the park is huge…. like you could drive for hours and hours all over the place to see tons of different things. 
I climbed a rock to get a good picture with my Nate. Behind us you can see the famous half dome.
This is a great picture of Mom and Dad at the Mirror Lake.
Everything was so beautiful at Yosemite. I loved all the huge waterfalls and being there with my family. Someone could literally spend a whole week there looking at what we saw in a just a few hours. I will never forget it.
Next, we stayed at hotel #3 and then journeyed back to San Fran by driving the south part of Hwy 1. It was much better than the north part…. Nobody got car sick. We got to see more farmland and more coast. The ocean was freezing.
Nate and Mom were excited to get some fresh strawberries from a stand on the side of the road. It was neat.
We got back to the city and looked around a bit before checking into hotel #4. That night we got to go to AT&T Park for a Giants game. Nate has joked about wanted to see every baseball park in the US, so I guess this is one more we can check off the list.
It was pretty great…. We were freezing, but loved every minute.
The next day, we took a double decked bus tour of the city. We got to see almost everything in the two days we spent listening to tour guides and hoping on and off. By the end of the second day our favorite guide, Ed, knew us by name. (He had been to OKC earlier in the year and thought Braum’s was the greatest restaurant he had ever been to. Ha)
This is one of my favorite pictures from the trip. This is the famous “Painted Ladies” on “Postcard Row” in Alamo Square. They call the yellow one the Full House house and the Victorian on the end just sold for $2 million.
Me at Pier 39 in the Wharf looking at all the Sea Lions. I could have watched them all day.
Nate’s first time on a submarine. We took a tour of the USS Pampanito.
Nate is trying to show how big the cables are on the Golden Gate bridge. What you can’t see in the picture are all the tiny little cables in the middle…. I forget how many Ed said were in there, but if you took the bridge apart the cables would wrap around the earth three times or something.
Best spaghetti I have ever eaten award goes to: The Original Restaurant in Little Italy. Mmmmm.
We went a ton more places, but there is only so many pictures that should be allowed in one blog post… I think this is my max.
On our last couple days in San Fran we moved to hotel #5 at the wharf. Nate ate lots of clam chowder and I ate lots of Boudin bread. On our last day there, we went to Alcatraz.
Nate taking the tour.
Great view from Alcatraz…. They said that is one thing that made this prison so tough… The prisoners would be able to hear people laughing and living their life just a swim away, but they couldn’t get there.
First In-N-Out burger. It was pretty good.
Riding the famous cable car.
And, one more baseball game. We took the subway over to Oakland and watched the A’s.
This is us on our last day at the wharf. I love this picture because you can see the city behind us.
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