We packed up and left the house this morning a little after 8am.
We drove to Berkley, parked at “Northgate”, ate at La Burrita (“Fine Mexican Food” – which it was not) then spent a short amount of time walking through the Berkley campus. It was pretty and of course, the people were bizarre.
From Berkley we drove across the Bay Bridge into San Fran and drove down Lombard Street then parked along the northern shore at Fort Mason and walked about 1.5 miles over to Pier 39 where we enjoyed watching the sea lions.
I was wearing bad shoes so b/c I couldn’t find any flip flops to buy, Ryan traded my slip on Keds for her Nike Blazers. We went into several souvenir shops, the kids each got San Fran sweatshirts and we walked back to the car and drove out via the Golden Gate Bridge to the San Rafael Bridge. It was a beautiful day. The drive to Sacramento took a long time because of Friday rush-hour traffic but we got to the river-front (Sacramento River) Embassy Suites at 7 (our room looks right out onto a cool bridge crossing the river) and then walked to an amazing, outdoor dinner at Railroads Fish & Chips.
The people here are whacked. Weed just wafts through the air everywhere but the town and the weather are amazing. We walked into two different incredible candy stores with throw-back candy then walked back to the room after stopping and listening to a young girl and her younger brother play live street music (she – vocals and keyboard and he – guitar). They drew quite the diverse, dancing crowd. It’s 9:20pm now, Grant is flicking my leg because he is basically 5, and we’re about to watch a movie and go to bed.
Grant thought San Fran was amazing. We leave tomorrow around noon. This trip was really great and we’ve now been
taking these trips for 11 years. I can’t
believe we’ve been to 50 of these parks.
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