San Francisco 2009

San Francisco 2009

I know it's taken me forever to blog about our vacation, but last month was just crazy - recovering from back to back company and travel, then the moms came for a visit, then I got sick. Basically July was rough for me! But, things are getting back to normal now, so I wanted to share stories and pictures!

We went to SF at the end of June to see Tom and Stephannie before they made the move back to Austin. We had a fabulous time! I will admit that I was worried about the flight with a four and a half month old, but he was stellar for the entire trip! We arrived in the evening, and by about 3pm the next day he had adapted his schedule to the new time zone and that was that. On the way home we had to wake him early for our flight, so he was already back on track for our time zone once we got back!

Stepho was a wonderful tour guide, she drove us all around the city on our first day, showing us the Golden Gate Bridge, Lombard Street, Pier 39, the Boudin Sourdough Company, and the Cowgirl Creamery (for artisan cheese to go with our sourdough).

On Saturday we went downtown to the farmer's market, and to see Tom's office. Then we went to the Asian Art Museum for the Lords of the Samurai exhibit. It was very interesting. Isaac enjoyed looking around in the museum too!

Of course we chose a great time to visit San Francisco, during the Pride Celebration. So, outside the art museum it was like a street fair with food and booths. It made for some very interesting people watching opportunities. We also found an It's-It booth, so we were able to experience this legendary San Francisco treat for ourselves...yummy.

On Sunday we went to the Pride Parade. We had a lot of fun. It was as entertaining to watch the spectators as it was the parade entries! I have a ton of pictures from the parade, but I haven't gotten through them all yet. I'll put them up in a separate post once I get through them all.

After the parade Tom and Stephannie took us to Golden Gate Park. We saw the California Academy of Science building where Stephannie volunteers, and we went up into the tower of the De Young Museum for a bird's eye view of the city. We didn't get to see all of the park because it's so huge, but we did visit a beautiful little rose garden.

We got up early on Monday morning to fly back to Austin, and the flight was thankfully non eventful. Isaac enjoyed looking around for a while, and when it was nap time, I just tucked him into the sling and he went right to sleep. We couldn't have asked for a better first trip with the baby! Thanks again to Tom and Stephannie for being such wonderful hosts and showing us around. We had the best time! :-)