San Francisco

We're home from our trip now and had an awesome time in San Francisco and the bay area seeing friends, family and being tourists for Dalia in the city. Before she was born our friend Oralea (who lives in SF) gave us Good Night San Francisco and it's a book she's read since, well, forever. So, she wanted to see all the sites in our book. We drove down Lombard Street, stopped at the Golden Gate Bridge, went to Golden Gate Park (the coolest playground on the planet), saw Ocean Beach (though you can hardly see it through the fog), and the Windmill and had a wonderful meal with Oralea and Matt in their apartment in the city. It was the most fun we've had there since we moved there for a short time over 12 years ago.






Did I mention that San Francisco has the coolest slides in the world. We found this one in Eureka Valley (remembered it from a decade ago, but Oralea helped us track it down).

We also enjoyed hanging out with Aunt Ali, feeding the birds and squirrels in her backyard, Uncle Jimmy, seeing Auntie Guacamole again, visiting with Grammy Karen, having a wonderful evening with our friends Scott and Dana and meeting our newest cousin, Charlotte.






I think Mark left (part of) his heart in San Francisco. We'll have to get back there soon to retrieve it. Until then, we hope our time in beautiful California will stay with us through the new year as we await our new family member.
Dalia is just about the best traveler. She barely fussed, enjoyed the sites, and forced us to listen to nothing else but Casper Babypants (she can now sing all the songs and knows the names of each one).

We came home on Dalia's birthday. My mom was awesome enough to order a cake and bring home groceries so we could have a little celebration for Dalia with Gigi, Pops and Uncle Rob. She's had a week and a half of birthday celebration, ending today on Mark's 40th! birthday with a little party with a couple of friends.






This mom doesn't exactly know what I'm going to do with her all day now that we've had so many weeks of all day funtime. Thankfully, we have lots of new things and memories to keep us busy.