San Fransisco at the Pier

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San Fransisco Baby!!!

WOW, San Fransisco is such a cool city!! Just the right spot for us to soak up some culture!! Amy was such a good tour guide! We went to the Golden Gate Bridge, the beach (finally!!), and climbing around at the Cliff House where we found crabs, sea glass and sea shells. We also cruised around on the muni, subway and city buses. We went up hills and down hills. We went down the crooked street. The weather was so nice and sunny that we didn't even see the fog. But all the people were out at Delores Park so we got to see jugglers, slack line walkers and eat street dogs on crepes! Eli and Finn both got to try the slack line too. San Fransisco is a very colorful city with fantastic things to see and do--thanks Amy!!

Jelly Belly Tour

From Georgetown we headed south to San Fransisco to visit Amy. Of course, we had to stop at the Jelly Belly Factory to find out how they make them so yummy! Did you know they really have flavors like vomit, buggers and earthworms???? Thankfully we were not the lucky ones chosen to sample these creative flavors to verify how close they taste to the real thing---yuuuck!! It did seem like something out of Willy Wonka Land and the murals made of Jelly Bellys were cool to see too!

Family

One of the trip's biggest highlights was when Chris's sister, Shanna, her three boys, Treu, Terrhan and Teshan, his other sister Christal, and her mother, Judy, all came up for the day and the boys got to meet their cousins and Aunties for the first time! Again, it was a beautiful warm day but there was just enough snow left over for a battle royale snowball fight complete with four wheelers and golf carts! What a blessing!!

Georgetown CA

Then we were off to visit Grampa Eli and Grandma Re in Georgetown CA. We had such a nice visit with them and got a lot of much needed bonding time in. We went panning and sluicing for gold with a real gold miner, got a ride on his bike, and got to listen to him sing and play guitar. Although we were certain we were going to find just enough gold to fund the rest of the trip, we only found a chunk of fool's gold.

It turned out to be one of those unseasonably warm days at Lake Tahoe and it was so much fun to hang out with Marn, her friends, and her alterego, Marniqua.

A dollar goes to the first person who can tell us the depth of Lake Tahoe.