Wednesday, March 2, 2011

California!

We decided to take a trip to visit Grandpa Mendonca and Gloria and go to San Francisco over the weekend.  Matt grew up in the bay area, so he always likes to go back and visit, and I always love to go to California because they have so many outlet malls there!  We got to stay with Grandpa and Gloria, and it was really nice to hang out with them since we don't get to see them that often.  Gloria even made us yummy homemade waffles for breakfast.  

 
Here is Caden with Grandpa and Gloria.

 Caden pounding it with Grandpa.

 Grandpa has this really neat machine that does quilting.  They have a quilting company and people send them quilts from all over so that he can do the stitching.  It's all run by the computer and there are tons of different patterns.  This quilt that he was working on was being quilted with monkeys and bananas.  It was so cute.

We drove to San Francisco across the Bay Bridge.  That is the double decker bridge that collapsed during that huge earthquake in 1989.  Hopefully that fixed it really good! 

We drove down Lomabard St which is the crookedest street in the world.  This is a picture from the bottom.  The street is really cute with pavers and nice houses.  I think that it would be pretty crazy to live there with all of the traffic and the turns.  It would be really hard to get out of your driveway! 

 I don't think that you can really tell from this picture that well, but it is crazy how steep that the streets are.  It was scary to have to stop on such a huge incline.  It was hard to believe that the car could stay like that.  It was the first time that I've ever rolled backwards in an automatic.  It would be pretty crazy to drive a stickshift there!

We went to Fisherman's Wharf and pier 39 where we checked out the Sea Lions 

and rode on the carousel. 

We went to Ghiradelli Square where they sell yummy chocolate and sell desserts made from Ghiradelli chocolate.  We had a peanut butter hot fudge sundae.  Yum!  

This is in front of the San Francisco Bay at Ghiradelli Square.   

Here we were driving to the Golden Gate Bridge. 

Here we were driving across the Golden Gate Bridge.

2 comments:

Sarah LeSueur said...

That looks so fun I didn't even know you guys went there.

Anonymous said...

Wow....I love San Francisco! It's so gorgeous there! Looks like you all had a fabulous trip!