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!

Wednesday with Wrecks

Wrecks loves his new bed!

It put him right to sleep!

Lets see how long it takes before he decides he wants to pull all the stuffing out!

Just a little touch of Fall

Ellen was visiting this weekend, so with her help and a little help from pinterest we did a little fall decorating.  I finally put my hours spent on pinterest to good use!

I wanted to go a little overboard decorating for fall after perusing pinterest  and seeing all of the amazing ideas.  I tried to contain myself and after spending 12 dollars on pumpkins and about 5 dollars on beans I brought a little fall into our house!

Pinterest copy cat #1…fill vases with corn, beans, and peas

My version….

Pinterest copy cat #2…pumpkins on candlesticks

My version with squash…

Pinterest copy cat #3….pumpkins in vases

My version on the mantel…

Happy Fall Yall!!!!

Cali Vacay Day 5–Pacific Coast Highway

On Wednesday we said goodbye to Anaheim and headed to San Fran via the Pacific Coast Highway.  We left Anaheim around 10 and got stuck in LA traffic for about 3 hours.  We finally made it through LA and Malibu and decided to stop at In-n-Out burger.  Not the best burger I have ever had, but it wasn’t too shabby.

Driving on the PCH was beautiful and also super scary at times!  The road was very curvy and we were hugging the side of the cliff above the Pacific ocean.

We arrived in San Francisco just in time to see the sun set.  What a long day of driving.

Cali Vacay Day 4–Disneyland

We started Day 4 of vacation buying sunglasses.  I lost my sunglasses on a ride the day before and Doug broke his the next morning.  We found some that would do at a little shop next to the hotel.  After buying sunglasses we were off to Disneyland!

The first ride we rode was Indiana Jones and lucky for us we were in the front of the car and Doug got to drive.  Well he didn’t really drive but he pretended like he was.

Then we went on a little safari river cruise.

Next stop was Splash Mountain…

We watched Disney’s Cowboy Show and of course Doug was chosen to participate.  They were doing a dating game show for the sheriff’s daughter.  They blindfolded all the guys and had them answer questions.  Maybe if I wrote this post weeks ago I could remember in more detail the funny jokes…but all I can say is I was laughing hysterically.

Doug was chosen out of the three guys…and here is his reaction when they took off the blindfold….

We rode so many cheesy rides (peter pan, Alice in wonderland, tangled…the list goes on and on)  I was really surprised when Doug wanted to ride the teacups.

But once we got on I see why he wanted to ride them…

Dougs favorite part of the day was the huge turkey leg we had for lunch.

We had fun, but Disneyworld is still my fav!

Sad to say good by to southern Cali…but headed to San Fran on Wednesday!!!

Here is a picture of our hotel room that was within walking distance to Disney!  Super cheap and oh so close!