Saturday, June 30, 2012

San Francisco Day 5

Our flight out of Oakland left at 6:00 a.m.  Therefore we had to be up by 3:00 a.m. so we could get the 4:10 shuttle to the airport.

 This is Emily and Tyler after we got them dressed.



Lining up to meet the 2 shuttle buses we had to take.

 
 
 

 Waiting for the shuttle buses


 

 The Greggy Bunch at the Oakland airport.



The kids (as well as Darrell and I) slept the whole flight.

 
 

Bye Bye San Francisco!  What a wonderful, wonderful time we had!

 

Friday, June 29, 2012

San Francisco Day 4

Breakfast at the hotel

 

We stopped by the Jelly Belly factory/store.  We didn't go on a tour because they weren't producing Jelly Belly's that day, but we got to sample any kind we wanted.

 
 
 
 
 

 We went to Six Flags Discovery Kingdom in Vallejo, CA.

Us with the Looney Tunes characters

 

 I didn't get many pictures, but we rode some rides

 

and went to some animal shows


 

 Johnny Rockets for lunch



Thursday, June 28, 2012

San Francisco Day 3

We began our day with breakfast at the hotel.

 

We stopped at Psycho Donuts to get a snack for later.

 

Aubrey, Tyler, Laura, Emily and Megan watching a DVD in the van

 

We went to the Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park

 

 Eating our Psycho Donuts before heading into the forest

 
 
 

 The Redwoods forest was SO beautiful!

 

 It's hard to see, but here we all are.

 

 A sampling of pictures


 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 Megan thought that where these two trees came together was a slide and wanted to keep sliding down it.


Derek, Tansy and Samuel

 


Greg and Daniel


 Kimberly, Aubrey, Kyle, Olivia and Sage

 

 Jonathan with a banana slug

 

 Lunch at Subway

 

 Tyler at Natural Bridges State Beach

 

 It was cold and windy, but that didn't stop Sage from jumping in and swimming while the others just waded (and got plenty wet too.)

 

 Megan REALLY wanted to go wading with the big kids and wasn't happy that I dragged her away to a safer area.


Emily with Grandma


 Calmer, warmer water


 

 The sand was nice and warm.

 
 

 Emily enjoyed stepping on the seed pods.


Then we made the drive 2-3 hours north to be near the next day's adventure.  We had dinner at the nearby Denny's.

 
 

Derek and Tansy borrowed 2 umbrella strollers and 2 pack 'n' plays for us so we wouldn't have to takes ours.  Megan and Emily in their beds.