California part 1

We stopped in San Francisco on our trip up to Battle Ground. We had a great time. We stayed at the lodging facilities at Travis Air Force Base. Military bases are great places to stay with a family, because we had something like an apartment with 2 bedrooms, a full kitchen, living room and even a washer and dryer... all for $34 a night! You can't beat that. Travis is near the town of Vallejo, so instead of driving into San Fran in the morning, we took the ferry.

The kids loved riding on the boat.
This is Mr. J, Miss M and Mr. T on a trolley! It kind of felt like we were going to fall off, with our 3 kids and a stroller, but it was fun... After the trolley ride, we stopped at China town to walk around a bit and then went to the next trolley stop. However, the wait for that trolley was like 2 hours, so we decided to get on the bus. Getting on an almost-full bus with 3 kids and a stroller helped us to understand why not a lot of people with big families live in the city....
I think this one may have been near Fisherman's wharf.
Ghiradelli chocolate factory... delicious chocolate sundae! The girls really enjoyed it, but I think Miss M was getting kind of full.

Mr. T liked it there too! There were lots of statue things out in front of stores and the girls loved getting their pictures taken with them. It was so funny.

At around 4pm, we decided to take the ferry back to our car in Vallejo and drive into the city. We wanted to drive the golden gate bridge and some other things.
We thought it would be fun to drive down Lombard St.... but so did all the other tourists in town, so it took us like 1 1/2 hours to get to the top, and like 2 minutes to drive down it. It was pretty cool. Thankfully, the 1 1/2 hours spent in the car was used for napping and making sub sandwiches out of our cooler.

Stay tuned for more pics of San Fran...

P.S. These are smaller pics than I usually post, but I think if you click on them, it will make them big.