To Do List Update

Here is our “Things to Do before we move in 2013” to do list update…

1. Go to a Mariners Game (baseball)
2. Go to a Seahawks Game (football)
3. Go to a Sounders Game (and why not a soccer game)
4. San Juan Islands (off the coast of WA)
5. Leavenworth at Christmas
6. Tulip festival in Mt. Vernon
7. Hike in the Olympic Peninsula
8. Canyon Beach in Oregon
9. San Francisco
10. Napa Valley
11. Disneyland/LA
12. Hawaii
13. Mexico with Charlie and Julie for their 30th bdays (and Doug’s too)
14. Halibut Fishing
15. Shooting an Elk (this one is for Doug)
16. California Beach
17. Redwood Forest
18. Catalina
19. Portland
20. Crater Lake

Hopefully we can accomplish all of this in 2 years!

Cali Vacay Day 6, 7, & 8–San Francisco (Thursday-Saturday)

I am going to  blog about San Fran as a whole because if I don’t I will never get finished blogging about our California Vacation that was over 6 weeks ago!

We started our Thursday morning off stuck in traffic crossing the Berkley Bridge.  We paid a ridiculous 6 dollar toll, was late for our tour, couldn’t find parking, paid 28 dollars for parking, paid 10 dollars to a taxi to catch us up to our tour group, got on the wrong tour bus, kicked off the wrong tour bus, finally found the right tour bus, and then was told that we had about 5 minutes to run to the top of a very steep hill to take pictures of the windiest street in the world…Lombard St. and then joined our tour group.  Wheeewwwww…now we could breathe and enjoy the rest of the tour.

We saw China town…

The famous Painted Ladies…AKA Full House houses!

Stopped by a lot of parks…

Drove across the Golden Gate Bridge…

And drove into Sausalito all with our tour group.  We took a ferry from Sausalito back to San Fran that took us by our next point of interest…Alcatraz.

We had amazing views of the city from the Alcatraz island.

The sun was setting on the island on our way back to San Fran.

We then walked forever down to Fishermans Wharf.

Saw a ton of seals.

And that was all in one day!  The next day we decided to tour around ourselves.   We crossed back over the Golden Gate Bridge and went in to Muir Woods.  Muir Woods is the closest part of the Redwood Forrest to San Fran.

After we were done tree-gazing we went back across the Golden Gate Bridge and this time we actually saw blue skies.

Doug drove down Lombard Street.

We drove around China Town looking for the place where they make fortune cookies.

Finally found the fortune cookie shop stuck back in a little ally.  We bought some delicious fresh fortune cookies and the little owner guy really wanted to take a picture with…too bad that he was holding the cookies over his face.

We ended the day with a ride on the trolley!

Saturday was spent catching up on sleep and watching football.  Doug was tired of being a city tourist and paying an arm and leg for parking.  We can successfully mark a ton of things off our “things to do before we move” list!