San Francisco

We went to San Francisco with all of the kids on Sunday the 14th of March. I was tired and pretty cranky and felt like I was losing the kids because of all of the people. It was a beautiful day and really mobbed. We had lunch in the big market at Taylor's. It was great. I was getting napkins for 7 people, four of them kids and a middle-aged woman in a biking outfit came up to me and asked me "what the heck are you doing"? If I hadn't been so tired, I would have told her,"certainly not minding your business", but sadly my snappy comeback didn't occur to me until I sat down at our table. We ate outside and it was just delightful after leaving the weather here. After that we went to the Golden Gate Park playground, which was great, hence the photo for today. It's a cement slide, so the kids use a piece of cardboard to sit on. Sand helps to keep it slippery. Obviously, Josie loved it. After that we went to the botanical garden, just amazing as you can see by the other photo of Krista and Jeanie. At the end of the day we went to a Chinese Restaurant, very authentic and the food was terrific. We worked in the shed again today, assembling shelves and organizing stuff as we put it back. Then I started taking apart the old chicken pens, so far just some of the bamboo fencing. The heat just knocked it out of me, so I'm ready for bed. 'Nite.