If you're going to San Fran...cisco...

Back and tired! Lots of fun times had in San Fran and while Ben was visiting.

We hung out, ate good food, watched tv, news, and DVDs in Chowchilla for 2 1/2 days. Then we packed up, hooked Bo up with a two room suite (the garage and the kitchen), and drove west.

It's so quick to get over to San Jose. We went to Casa de Fruta (of course), and then easily over to Santa Cruz. The traffic and people were scarce basically everywhere the whole trip west. It was nice and odd.

Just driving through Santa Cruz, we drove to San Fran on Highway 1.

That was beautiful, sunny, and wonderful. We stopped at one state park/beach and took pics of the huge long funneling waves. Made me want to SURF!

We checked into a luxurious Embassy Suites hotel in Burlingame, which is half way between San Fran and San Jose. It was nice, 10 stories, and we had a 2 room suite like Bo had in Chow. They even had free cocktails from 5:30 - 7:30 every night to any guests.

Our first night was a drive to the Golden Gate where we walked acrossed it, Casey got fearful of the swaying, suspension bridge, and Ben and I took thousands of pictures (more so me ;)

We got a good room service dinner, and just hung out and planned our Christmas Eve in the city.

Ben woke up incessantly at 5 a.m. every day and had an issue with extended bathroom time, but other than that it was very nice to hang out with him and Casey all week.

So needless to say, we got up and out the hotel door aroun 6:30 a.m. with a free shuttle to SFO airport. That's where we picked up the BART (subway system) and began our day!

First it was the Fisherman's Wharf, the barking sea lions, the super fun shops, and the Alcatrez Ferry Boat over to Alcatrez Island. We all enjoyed the tour (2nd time doing the tour for Mary), and headed back for some hiking up one of the steepest streets in that city.

Hyde Street to Lombard Street.

Huffing and puffing the whole way STRAIGHT UP A CONCRETE MOUNTAIN- we see trolly cars politely going up and down right beside us...why aren't we on one of those!??!

Well, we arrived at Lombard street which is famous for being the "crookedest street in the world". Basically it's straight down with 8 or so 90 degree turns. Weird. Cars were driving down it as we climbed down back to the normal level of the Fisherman's Wharf area.

I found an amazing tin sign shop that dad for sure would love, but others would have fun browsing too. Cool!

Well, that's all for now. I hope everyone enjoyed a great Christmas weekend! Ours was spent sleeping, recooperating, (me) organizing junk in the house, and watching movies and tv for a day going on two here Sunday night. GO COLTS huh!

Here's some funny info about my name:

Mary - Means: Bitter (hahahahahahahahaha - so fitting - shooooooot!)
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