A Day in the City...
... San Francisco

As you know, kids are out for the summer. Eddie usually takes a week off right after kids get out for the summer for a much needed R & R as well as spend some quality time with the kids. This year as we tried to plan for our "vacation" we realized how much more difficult it has become. We now have to look at their schedule as well. Anyhow, instead of "going away" this time, we decided to take a day trip out to San Francisco and do R & R later at home. This way Eddie will go back to work fully "rested". It also helps that we are so close to many wonderful places. San Francisco is only an 1-1/2 hour drive from us which is great since it is one of Eddie's favorite place.

Our first stop... Conservatory of Flowers. We didn't actually go in, just admired the landscaping & flowers in the front.

rare photo of just Eddie & me
in front of the Conservatory of Flowers

We didn't go into the Conservatory of Flowers because our plan was to go to the Japanese Tea Garden. Believe it or not for some reason I had never been to the Golden Gate Park... thus have never been to many of the wonderful places. Well, it is about to change... one venue at a time. First on our list... Japanese Tea Garden.

Here's Eddie with the kids
We lined them up by height...

Here's Lizzy & Rachel in funky yoga poses

rare family photo in front of the
"japanese temple"

one of the many Japaneses bridges at the Tea Garden
notice how steep it is?

One of our favorite sights... Golden Gate Bridge

I thought it would be quite interesting to post & compare pictures of our kids when we first moved back to California. We moved to Sacramento from Cleveland, Ohio in July of 2005. One of the first place we visited was San Francisco. Here's some picture from that outing.

kids with Alcatraz in the background
July 2005
they look so cute... and small

Eddie & the kids on Pier 39
notice how short Chris & Jeff looks next to Eddie?
family photo with Golden Gate Bridge background
kids really grew during the last 3 years
(mom & dad also aged quite a bit in those years)