To celebrate our -1 Wedding Anniversary (April 16!), Kevin and I flew to San Francisco for a quick, weekend getaway. We love San Francisco and had gone exactly two years ago so it was the perfect destination.
We were lucky with great spring weather so we were able to shop Union Square, Haight Ashbury and Hayes Valley happily, ride bikes across the Golden Gate Bridge into Sausalito (our butts hurt SO BAD after!) and hang out in Golden Gate Park. We also had delicious food, especially from the Clift where we got to sit in the Worlds Largest Table Chair!
We had the best time despite the weekend flying by! I think we’ll try to make it to SF every couple of years for traditions sake – if I say it on the blog, we have to do it!! Below is a highlight of my favorite moments and a video Kevin put together on our bike ride. Click HERE for all of our weekend pictures.
I have a print of a similar picture (that I got on my trip to SF with D!) so it was fun to replicate it!
We just got back from a super fun weekend in LA. We went down to see the Huskies play UCLA – which was really just an excuse to go to Cali to visit Kevin’s friends (also Husky alums). Holy smokes, these LA Dawg fans are no joke. We ended up on a school bus (yes, you read me right, I said a school bus. like for kindergarteners.) with 80 other Huskies, confident, happy, drinking our breakfast, crammed three to a seat with paralyzed knees from jamming them into the seat in front and no bathroom. It didn’t matter. We were headed to the Rose Bowl to beat the Weasel! Fast forward three hours later…defeat. A very sad game and long, traffic filled, bus ride home.
Thank goodness for Disneyland! Where all your worries are left behind (nevermind that we went Friday and the game was on Saturday). I haven’t been since the fifth grade and it was as magical as I remember. We were blessed with Disneyland expert guides, free tickets, little to no lines (I guess a 30 minute wait constitutes ”no lines”) and a beautiful day. We hit Space Mountain first, our Disney guides favorite, grabbed a fast pass and waited in the short line. We ended up riding it three times, without cheating, in less than an hour which we are told could quite possibly put us in the Guinness Book of World Records. That set the pace for the rest of the day. Bouncing from ride to ride, park to park (California Adventure didn’t exist my last visit) and meeting our favorite characters. They were slowly starting to put up Christmas decorations, which I LOVED. We rode the “ride this ride last because you’ll crap your pants and nobody wants to walk around all day with crappy pants” ride – and did not crap our pants. And got SOAKED at Splash Mountain. We thought we were so smart by sitting in the middle. The middle happens to have water spill over and soak you. Not splash. Soak. My entire right leg, butt and shoe were soaked for hours…but it was my favorite!
We had such a good time as big kids. I can see why parents get so excited to take their little kids. The kids were sooo happy. They really were on cloud nine. And so much fun for us to watch. I thought often about Alli meeting all the Princesses and how much she would love all the rides. When we go back, it might not be free (oh by the way, tickets are up to $97/day for a park hopper pass. Yeah. HOLY freakin’ CRAP! Plus food and souveniers….enough to go broke.) but we now know to go mid-week in November to get your money’s worth! If I had to wait 110 minutes for a ride, I’m pretty sure I would not be able to smile at the happiest place on earth.
Another magical weekend with awesome friends! We’ll get ‘em next year, Dawgs!
