we were off to san francisco for the day, but first, we had a little surprise for layla. we decided to give her her birthday present early this year, because of was. she’s been reading the ‘american girl’ books, and has intermittently been asking for a doll. her favorite from the books has been julie, who is from 1974 and lives in san francisco. lily and hannah have dolls, and we knew they would all have fun playing with them together.
as expected, she was VERY excited!
driving to sf means lots of bridges. NOT my favorite.
we had the girls in our car and joe and mary had all the boys.
us with alcatrez in the background.
the other dapelos with alcatrez.
kids watching the sea lions. they were barking and they thought it was hilarious.
believe it or not, this kid is from seattle…
trying to get them to pose for this pic was an exercise in futility.
the kids rode the carousel, but micah and jacob were very disappointed that there were no more ‘animals’ to ride and they had to sit on a bench. the lady working the gate saw this and let them ride again for free, even escorting them to the animal of their choice and helping them on. SO nice!
the musical stairs. they ran up and down these for about 15 minutes straight.
off to see the golden gate bridge.
after that, we had to head back through the city to get to oakland to pick up nana. what a mess! the traffic was horrible. it was rush hour, and there was a giants game about to start. it took us 20 minutes to get through one intersection. after we FINALLY got there, we all needed dinner, so we had our first stop at in-n-out of the trip. yummy!!!!
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