School Clothes Shopping...

So we surprised the kids and flew them away to San Francisco. Rob and I liked it so much when we went that we decided to take the older kids and go. They are always helping us with the little ones and are willing to do whatever we need and we appreciate that. So we took them to San Francisco to go school clothes shopping. We told them initially that we were taking them out of town to school clothes shopping. They speculated that we were going to Cabazon in California. So we got them up early and started driving. They were excited once they saw we were going to the airport. It was fun for us to do and glad that they liked it. We flew in to Oakland again because taking the Bart is an experience you must have once. We stayed at a place called Hotel Diva. It was very Chic and Modern. We had 2 rooms that shared a bathroom. Pretty cool place. We wanted to stay down at Union Square so we could take our shopping back and not have to haul it around. I absolutely LOVE the weather in San Fran....I love the cold breeze. We had a great time spending it with our olders kids. It was fun to not have to worry about the little ones.




The first day we got there we took the kids over to Alcatraz. It is always so interesting and amazing. There was an actual prisioner that had been on alcatraz named Darwin E Coon. We bought his book and had him sign it. Rob and Kailey have read it so far. I intend to...I hear his life story is amazing and that he has turned in to a great man. It is hard to imagine that Alcatraz really even existed just because it is so worn down so it was neat to see someone that actually had survived the experience.











One of the days we were there we rented a car and drove to Fairfield to the Jelly Belly Factory. That was a fun thing except for the tons of money spent on Jelly Bellys. On the way home we drove through Napa and saw all of the beautiful hills and hills of vines. It was breath taking! Then back through Sosilitos (sp) and across the Golden Gate Bridge. Amazing! Loved the fog rolling in across the bridge.





On friday Rob's brother Bill flew out to come hang out with us. We had fun walking down the warf, taking the trolley, eating yummy foods. The pictures are of us eating breakfast at the Fairmont, taking the trolley and hanging out at the warf. We went to dinner friday night at a place called the Sliding Door. It was great food!



One of our last days there we walked over to China Town with the kids. Of course they were cracking up at themselves. Bill didnt want to stay there so he left and Rob, Kyle, Kailey and I walked around. We could have walked around hours looking at everything...to bad we were short on time.