San Francisco

Today we took a trip to San Francisco. We met up with my cousin and her husband and they showed us around the city. We started off by eating lunch at Fisherman's Grotto. I had a delicious fish taco. Then we headed to Pier 39 where we got some chocolate, watched a magic show, saw some sea lions and walked around and explored.

A look at Alcatraz

 This lady is making sourdough bread.

Check out those animals!

Next we went to an antique arcade museum where we played some coin operated games.

Later we walked over to Ghirardelli Square. We ordered up some delicious chocolate drinks made with fresh chocolate - Yum!!!

We ended the day with Britex Fabrics. It is an exotic fabric store ranging with fabrics from $5 to $200 a yard. There were Italian silks and beautiful wools. The others who didn't go to the fabric store went to the Japanese Tea Garden.

 

Exploring, Relaxing and Golfing...

First thing this morning the girls and my mom went to explore the towns of Healdsburg and Windsor. I love towns like these with old fashioned buildings. They are so pleasant to walk through. We visited antique shops and little boutiques.

Mama Pig BBQ

A chute boutique store

Just our style

                                                   

 Later we played shuffle board, sat by the pool and read.

Relaxing

Shuffle Board

The yard where we are staying

 We then played an evening round of golf. It is always so pleasant to end an evening of golf.

Just getting started

Ike and Ver's team

A beautiful view

Doesn't look too good...

Our First Day in Windsor...and the drive

We left for our trip at midnight and reached our destination at about 2:00pm. The weather is gorgeous and the resort is very nice too. Here are a few pictures of the drive and our resort.

Entering Wine Country

Our Resort

The view from our room

Our Last Full Day with lots of fun...

Today was a full last day. We began with going to the Canfield Fair. Now this is no ordinary fair, nobody in Ohio misses the fair. They have everything from the largest pumpkin, to an old town, to tanks, the poor man's caramel apple to fun rides. Uncle Phil has an "in" with some friends of his so we got free rides and entrance fees. Altogether it was lots of fun! 

As soon as we got home from the fair we went to Aunt Jo and Uncle Dave's to help cousin Beth (who is visiting from Pennsylvania) to make curtains for her coming baby girl. We got those done in a jiffy. Soon after we were done with the curtains cousin Michelle showed up with her husband Andy, and kids Maya, and Mesa. They are from Pennsylvania also. It was really neat that we all happened to be here at the same time. We had a big family dinner tonight with everybody. It was lots of fun, with Uncle Dave telling stories about when he was younger. We had lots of fun playing with Caleb and the other kids and talking to our cousins.

Cousin Beth and Veronica

Getting ready for dinner

Dinner time!

Bill and Denise

Uncle Dave, Michelle, and Aunt Jo

Caleb "isn't he so cute?"

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The Texas longhorn named "Victoria"

One of the Ponies

Watching the Pony show

A vintage soda bike

Vic, Uncle Phil, Aunt Mariellen and Ver

The biggest pumpkin

We actually got Uncle Phil to go on a ride (the picture is ver and phil)

On another ride

Us in the back of a tank (just ask Isaac about switching buttons on a tank he is not familiar with- he will tell you a good story)