Day 10 - San Fransisco

We took the train into downtown San Fransisco from our hotel.  Maeve said that she had never ridden on a train before, and I guess none of the kids ever have.  When we got off we walked to Chinatown to  a little lunch place that Jeffrey had read was good for kids.  It was fabulous food, and the kids loved it too.

After Lunch we took a bus to the Exploratorium.  It is like a much bigger and better version of the Children's Museum in Austin, and they have very good taste in their choices of DVD's for sale.

We walked around San Fransisco up and down hills, seeing the sights.  We saw the famous curvy street.  Neat bit of Trivia, Jeffrey's grandfather lived on that street.  Jeffrey remembers visiting him there when he was little.  

Afterwards we walked down to the pier and had some sourdough bread for teatime at Budin's.  Yes, we spent the $4 per roll for the turtle shapes for the kids.  They were too cute.  We hung around the ier waiting for it to get dark to see the fireworks.  The kids rode the Carosel, we saw a (lame) magic show, and Jeffrey got the kids icecream in lieu of supper.  How can you get better than that?

We had a little adventure in the evening, Jeffrey got worried about the buses not running at night because of the fourth of July fireworks, so rather than staying to see the fireworks show we started walking back toward the train station.  Unfortunately it seemed most of San Fransisco had the same idea.  It was a little surreal walking the streets at night with the kids, and with the rest of a city.  Our kids were troupers.  We never caught a bus, so they ended up walking the whole way, after an entire day of walking around the city, and they didn't complain.  We were so proud of them.