Thank You Auntie Marilyn

 Back in March Auntie Marilyn came to visit with Oma.  As a thank you gift for her trip she sent Holly two presents, They were both snow globes, one was of Cinderella and her prince dancing, it was musical, you wind it.  The second one was a snow globe with Tinkerbell that you can add a photo into, it was super cool.  Holly loved them, she dances to the Cinderella one all of the time, they live on her table so she can see them everyday.  I was a little worried at first as they are both very heavy and made of glass but she is super careful with them, and loves them very much.  Thank you Auntie Marilyn!

Great Food in Berkeley

 So a big theme of my Mom and Marilyn's trip was eating.  We went out to eat several times, and well San Francisco is the place to do it, great food at every turn.  Holly was amazing, such a trooper, though it totally helped that she had both Oma, Marilyn and Tanta Kat to take turns entertaining her. 

 This is really nice restaurant just down the street from us called Paisan.  They have very California style pizza's and other Italian food. It is delish and we took the Family on there first night in town.  Afterwards we walked down the block to have Gelato at Cafe Trieste.

 Here we are at Pyramid, a Berkeley Stable.  It is Brew Pub food.  A place we loved to take my Uncle Bobby when he came to visit.  We knew both Marilyn and my mom would love it and it wasn't too unusual, they are not the most adventurous eaters and we had lots of exotic places on the menu for later in the week.

 For some crazy reason I thought it would be a hassle to put up the back seat so we had Joel just sit in the back the few times we went out with all 6 of us, I was silly the seat is totally easy, but now I know.

 This is Kat's choice and she wanted to take everyone to Ethiopian.  It was very different but super cool and I actually enjoyed it.  We ordered 6 dishes, two had chicken in them and they serve it on this bread and then you eat it with bread.  the bread tastes really weird, super yeasty or maybe tart or strong I guess but then when you have the sauces and the meat on it it tapers down the flavor and is really good. It was a fun and adventurous night, Marilyn LOVED it.

A Day as a Tourist

So these are our tourist pictures. The first few are from the Golden Gate Overlook, but the rest are from our trip as tourist's through San Francisco on a Double Decker Bus. Holly loved this, she had such a great time sitting next to Mommy and looking out of the Big Windows. The only problem was that it was raining. The weather was actually pretty terrible the entire time my Mom was visiting so we took a risk and went on the day we thought the weather would be the best. It was mostly just a drizzle. We started at the Wharf and ended up eating at Boudin Sour Dough factory. Marilyn had Dungeness Crab which is in season, I mean you know it is vacation so of course time to splurge. We then did a tour of the bread factory which was super cool. Later we had ice Cream at Ghiradelli square,We saw Grace Cathedral, the Transamerica Pyramid, North Beach, Castro, China Town, Union Square. We even drove down Lombard street in my car after our bus tour. It was a great overview of San Francisco and a lot of fun.