The rest of the trip

Here is just a quick glance at the rest of our San Francisco trip. It was full of fun and adventure everyday. The first day there we didn't have a lot of time to do anything by the time we got there and checked in, but we did walk around the city close to where we were staying. Way too many pictures taken to describe each one. We had so much fun each and every day. A great vacation. A wonderful place to visit but definitely wouldn't want to live there.

We went to Pier 39 which has a bunch of neat shops, and a bunch of sea lions.

 At the bottom of Lombard street

 This guy in the gold was a real live man. He was all decked out in this gold outfit and was really fun to take a picture of. Some of the live statues were kind of mean but he wasn't.

 The wax museum had a few statues out front that we took pictures of because it cost way too much to go in.

 We went up to Coit tower on a clear day and you could see out everywhere it was really cool.

Alcatraz was really interesting. Worth the money and time.


The wharf was fun, it has a salt water taffy shop that was huge. A lot of other shops. We spent two different afternoons there. On the wharf there is tons of statues that Shandraya posed with.








Aquarium at the Sea was ok but a lot like the California Academy of Sciences that we had gone to a couple of days before. At the Academy of Sciences they have an awesome bird and butterfly aviary (enclosed dome) that is three stories high that you wrap around the edge while observing the birds and butterflies.

The cable cars were a lot of fun to ride on and would take you almost anywhere you wanted to go.

The cable car museum was real interesting to see how the cable cars work. The fortune cookie factory was the best thing in China town.
The rest of it was just a bunch of stores that sold trinkets and kinda junky stuff

One day we were walking around and went into a little shop that had open food out everywhere near china town. Doug took a picture and the lady got really mad at him.

Muir Woods

On Tuesday the 15th we headed out across the Golden Gate bridge and on up north to see Muir Woods. It started to rain on us just as we were trying to get a family picture with the bridge. We drove on up to the woods and it rained the whole time we were there. We were prepared with our umbrella but many people weren't and they were soaked.
Muir Woods was one of the prettiest places that we visited. It was so quite and serene. Tons of huge trees to see. To give you an example of how big the trees are we have the Jones tree huger family in one picture. We even saw two different rare banana slugs, Caleb really enjoyed the second one. Another exciting day on our trip.

At the beach

On Wednesday in San Francisco we went to this large park (pictures to come later). After that we were near the beach just below Cliff House. It has warnings that it has a strong rip current and drownings up and down the shore line. So I was thinking that I would just have fun taking pictures of Doug, Caleb and Shandraya just walking along the shore when Shandraya started doing some jumps and then all of a sudden she didn't notice the wave coming in and down she went. Caleb saw the wave and got up out of the waves way and was busting his gut laughing at her. When it was all said and done she was very wet and cold.   We went to the truck and luckily for her she had a pair of shorts in the car. She was able to strip down and I loaned her my jacket. She was a great sport about it and was laughing too, but I think the camera that was in her pants pocket is a goner. It still has water behind the viewing window.

More good times to come. Everyday we did a lot and had a great time.