Family vacation. Part 2 Yosemite, and San Fran!

This was in Yosemite National Park. It was a beautiful day, a little on the warm side, but we loved the scenery and all the trails to hike on. Bret and I had our Iowa shirts on for the day :) The kids had a great time climbing all over the rocks at this water fall. Don't remember the name of it. Sorry.

We had to take a picture of the kids running down the trails it was good to get out of the car and stretch our legs.

Then it was off to San Francisco! It was so exciting to get close to the city, and drive through all the hilly streets to find our hotel. We stayed at the Beresford Arms. Quite the cute hotel. It was a few blocks from Union Square, and it was one of the older hotels, so it had all the woodwork and design, and charm of those classic structures. I loved it! Bret couldn't have picked a better place to stay. After we settled in to our room, it was around 9 pm and we hadn't had dinner yet. We inquired of a family place to eat, and we were told there was a Cheese Cake Factory at the top of the Macy's building. So off we walked to Union Square and headed to Macy's. Wish I could've done some shopping. We had a wait so we went out on the roof and had a great view of the square.

It wasn't soon after we had our food that Sam got a little tired. He had finished his pizza, and went to sleep. It had been a long, fun and exciting day! I had the best meal! It was a pecan crusted cat fish, with this amazing sauce, and garlic mashed potatoes with this corn salad salsa stuff. Soooooo yummy! And we couldn't go with out having some cheese cake! The city was so alive! It didn't feel like it as almost 11:00, so many people were still out! We walked back to our hotel, I had to carry Keaton, and Bret carried Sam, they had both fell asleep at dinner, I must say it was a good thing I'm in such good shape, because Keaton isn't exactly lite, and it was mostly up hill. I was very proud of myself and it didn't hurt to burn off a few calories because I'm sure my dinner was way over the top!

So after falling asleep to all the city noises, we woke up and had breakfast then walked to the square again to catch the trolley car to the wharf. It took us a while to get one that wasn't' full of people. It cost 5$ per person for one way. It was fun hanging off the side going up and down the streets of San Francisco. The wharf was a lot of fun! They had this big old ship, like the ones from the 1800's that we could go on and walk all through, it was amazing. Ahh to be a sailor out to sea on one of those. I would've loved it!! We took so many pictures and I just wish I could put them all on here, you'll have to check out my face book page for more. After getting some fun things at the souvenir shops we headed back on the trolley car to our hotel to check out. It was off on another road trip up the coast of California.

We HAD to go over the golden gate bridge! How could you not go to this city and not go over it! It was very exciting and was over way to soon. But it was just amazing!