We're Home!

Aaron and I got home on Sunday, and man were we happy to see our girls!  We had a wonderful time in San Francisco, but it's always nice to return home :)  Ya know, a girl can only take so much of doing no laundry, having no responsibilities, no cleaning, and eating out every meal, ha!  Thanks to our wonderful parents for taking such great care of Kenadie and Berkley!  It was quite a treat for the girls to get 9 straight days of constant attention from the grandparents!  My mom said all she managed to do while she had the girls was get half of one of my dad's shirts ironed, ha!  I'm going to break up our trip into several posts, so as to not picture overload you all at once, and because I have two little jewels who wouldn't quite let me stay at the computer long enough to do it all in one post :)

We flew out of Gulfport early Saturday morning (July 14th) and landed in SF at 3:00.  We got to our hotel and set out to walk the streets and find some food!  No kidding, I KNOW we must have walked 25 miles while we were there!  I know for a fact on our last day there we walked 5, so it's possible it was more than 25!   

I didn't take any blog worthy pictures the first day (traveling), so the first "event" on our agenda was the Giants game on Sunday.  That was fun!  There were about 45,000 there, and Aaron and I were 2 of the 10 people there not sporting our Giants attire, which we have none, however, I did offer to wear such so that we would "blend" in, but Aaron refused and said the only team we wear are the Braves, ha!  So, we just stuck out like sore thumbs, but that didn't bother us any :)  Note to self, if we attend another Major League game, I will be wearing one of the teams playing, and it will probably depend on whoever has the best colors :) because I'm such a die hard fan like that!

 Bay Bridge

Alcatraz, which we toured on Monday. 

Loved Alcatraz!  If you go to SF, get your tickets early!  Our tour guide said they were already sold out till September!  This is where Monday starts.  Aaron attended the conference he was there for, I met him for his two hour lunch break, and then I returned to the room to catch up on my scrapbooking.  We met back up when he got done at 5:00, and headed to board the ferry to Alcatraz Island.

Looking a little too jolly to be touring a prison, but I have a hard time taking any picture without smiling :)

The next day was another day of Aaron attending the conference, me meeting him for his two hour lunch break and scrapbooking in the meantime while I waited :)  Totally was enjoying myself doing that!  Today we went to Fisherman's Wharf, Pier 39 to see the sea lions, shopped some and had dinner.

Pier 39

Have I mentioned how cold it is here!  Highs were typically in the upper 50's, lower 60's!  A BIG shout out to my SIL, Joy for helping me get my wardrobe ready!!!  Needless to say, Aaron may not be inviting me on a 9 day trip for a long time :) :) :)  Nothing like 9 days worth of new clothes, new shoes that I usually don't pay that much for and all new accessories, including a watch that I totally indulged in!  Yay me!  Yes, I've returned to reality!  But it sure was fun :)  I just don't do anything halfway ya know :)  All or nothing!

Thank you iPhone for getting us around EVERYWHERE we went!  While I people watched and took in the beautiful scenery, this is what Aaron looked like, and no, he's not checking one of his thousand emails!  Remember I DO NOT navigate well! 

To be continued...