A Trip to San Francisco with Mira

Here we are at Fruitvale Station

Meeting Mira on our way to San Francisco

One of the good things about this station is it is outdoors

The train entrance is on the upper deck and it is not so loud in the outdoors

Unlike the Ashby Bart station which is underground and much louder

Even so, Holly still needs to have her head phones with her for the ride

She is however very excited to be on the bart

and proud of herself for being so brave.

Once in San Francisco we had a few blocks to walk

The kids had a great time exploring the city

Running through the grass and having a blast

We arrived here at the California Creativity Museum

It was our first time and we were excited to explore the new place

Here we are coloring

It is a nice open space with lots of fun activities

The girls decided to do a puppet show

and were ready to get dressed up

This is an interesting green screen slide

Upstairs are the coolest craft activities

They are given a mystery box and an assignment and create the craft

They also had this really cool Karaoke Set-Up

Holly sang Part of your world.

The craft room was fun, there were questions like

What is your dream Playground, or How would you trap a Dinosaur

and from only the items in there mystery box they use tape and scissors to put something together

Here is one of the creations

Later we headed back downstairs

There was a cool Floam station set-up

The girls used it to run a shop making cakes from it

Near by they made cut out's that were the various pieces of a creature

Body, Legs, arms, they could be put together with brads

Holly needed help with the cutting and the hole punch but made some neat creatures

Here they are back at the Floam station making cookies

Mai and I were the customers

Here in the play area Holly is building with the magnetic blocks

This is another recording area where the kids dance and see themselves of the screen

The image gets warped and

Before heading out a quick book, and there were still parts to explore for another visit

Outside was a big park and garden

Also a big carousel

Which was our first stop after the museum

Our big girls waited in line and and bough tickets all by themselves

Up on the horses and ready to go around and around.

Here is Mira on her horse

We got a discount with our Museum stamp

and the ticket was worth two rides

The Carousel went fast and the kids had a blast

Here we are in the playground

a fun urban slide

The girls decided that they wanted to climb and slide on the hill instead

So silly

They were more like inch worms crawling down

Someone left out some hula-hoops

This was one of two main play structures

but again, instead of taking the standard steps our girls decided to climb up the wall

and crawl around the edges

But the most "Dangerous" area was here.... Sand and Water

Oh what a mess we make when we have access to water

Of course there favorite thing

I think they found little plastic cups and spoons

and were making sand experiments

This was a little "river" and since there feet were covered in sand they decided to rinse them off here

Of course that ended up with wet pants

It I wasn't careful it would have been wet everything.

Afterwards we decided to head over to the food court at westfield mall

Everyone was hungry and the girls were ready to go

We all ate some yummy food

did a little bit of shopping around

and headed back home on the bart

It was a super fun day

The girls liked to look out the windows even though it was dark

I think I forgot to mention we met up with Daddy at Dinnertime

Off we went back home!  It was a great day.