Tuesday, October 23, 2012

San Francisco Trip

While Dave's dad and sister were here we went to San Francisco. We also were lucky and had Kiernan that day with us too before he flew out the next day for combat training. And my dad hung out with us there too for part of the day before heading to his hotel for work.
That morning Dave and Rod went to pick up the rental van so we could all fit in a car for the trip. Then Dave and my dad went to get a rental car for my dad so he had one for his business trip. After that we all headed into the cars and started our drive down to SF. Cohen did fantastic up until we got to the toll bridge where we had to stop. He had been asleep for the whole car ride up to that point so it wasn't a big surprise he woke up and was crying because he was hungry. When we got into SF we got a little lost since our GPS took us to the actual working pier 39 instead of the tourist one. This gave us a chance to give Cohen a bottle and change his diaper though so it was handy.
After we finally made it to the place we actually wanted to be we met up with my dad (who didn't get lost because he is familiar with the area and was way ahead of us). We walked around the pier, took pictures, saw Alcatraz in the distance, saw the sea lions, and then got some food. My dad had to go start working on his work stuff for the business trip he was on so he left after lunch.
We looked around some of the shops and then walked over to the penny arcade. It was cool seeing some really old arcade games. Cohen and I went and looked at the old navy ships that they have out by the arcade while the others played some games. I attempted to do a penny presser for Cohen's baby book for his first trip but ended up getting only half the picture on the penny (Aunt Katherine was nice enough to give us one she had done).
After that we took a little break and took care of Cohen again. Then we hiked up the hill to Ghiradelli Square. Most of us got ice cream there which was fun because that was something we used to do when we'd visit my grandpa. After hanging out around there for an hour we headed back to the car and drove back home. Cohen and I got dropped off first so I could attend to him while everyone else picked up In and Out. Over all it was a fun day and we were all so proud of how well Cohen had done for the trip!