San Francisco

This last weekend Bobby and Mikelle were able to steal away for a few days. Bobby has been working out of town for the last couple of months, and was just transferred to San Francisco a few weeks ago. What better time to go see it! Mikelle's mom watched the kids with a little help from her dad and Kristin. They are the best. We had such a good time. We got to stay downtown, so we walked almost everywhere, but also got familiar with BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit), the cable cars, the buses and even taxi's. A great place to visit, but we couldn't imagine living there, especially with kids.

Here we are at Pier 39 with Alcatraz in the background.

Here is Bobby in a cell in the D block (isolation) of Alcatraz. We loved this tour. They do a walking audio tour, which is fantastic and we learned so much. It was cold and windy, but despite that, it was well done with the amount of tourist there.

Here is the Warden's house. Did you know most of the guards working at the prison lived on the island with their families? Crazy! 

Lombard street is San Francisco's crookedest street. It was crazy.  Why anyone would build it, let alone live on it is beyond us.

This is a cool fountain that the kids were playing in and around right across from the Ferry Building. We also had fantastic Thai food near by at Osha Thai Restraunt and Lounge and of course Boudin's bakery was there too! Really we ate our way through San Francisco. The Burger Bar is good, as is Tony's Pizza in Little Italy!

This little rodent scared Mikelle half to death as she stepped near it's hole and it popped out. Mikelle screamed and made quite a scene, then had to take pictures because he was so cute!

This is Sutro Baths on the other side of the island. We had a lot of fun walking around and seeing remnants of what used to be there, which was a big swimming pool complex, with fresh and salt water pools! 

This is more of an overview shot. Way worth the crazy taxi ride we took to get there, but we took the bus home. Wasn't near as scary!