Family Fest Day 6: San Francisco

There are not actually that many good photos I want to share from our last day together, in San Francisco.  We started the day late (letting everyone sleep in after our late night at the Boardwalk) so didn't get up there until lunchtime, where we started with lunch at a 50's diner and dessert from Ghiradelli's.  Then we headed over to the Exploratorium, a hands-on science museum--and it had worked out so perfectly that the day that was most logical for this SF adventure was also the monthly free day at the Exploratorium!  Yay for amazing free fun! 

The Exploratorium is housed in the wonderful Palace of Fine Arts, which was built for an international exhibition in 1915, and restored in 1965.

There are just WAY too many fun and interesting things to do and see inside the Exploratorium, and one reason we did not get many good pics is because all the camera holders were busy trying things and helping the younger ones try things!  Oh, and fellow homeschool moms, do check out the Exploratorium link above--there are lots of good science things you can learn about at home!

We shut down the Exploratorium too!  (But at a much more reasonable 5 pm) Then it was off to Fisherman's Wharf for sight-seeing. 

Too bad the fog was so thick there was not much to see of the normally beautiful views.  That is Alcatraz Island there hidden by fog behind Sarah and Emily--behind the ocean shipping liner too.

But with kids these cool, everythere you find yourself there is fun to be had.

We finished up the night with a late dinner with my cousin John and his fiancee Carmen--but by then we were just too tired to be thinking of photos, which means between Mom and Rebecca and me, we don't have ONE photo of our dinner with them!  Ah, well, we did manage to take pics of our last moments together--back at the cars, saying farewell.  My family was all going to stay in Oakland that night, since Rebecca and the girls were flying out in the morning, on their way back home to sweet home Alabama, where I hear the skies are so blue.

Oh, it was so hard for Sarah to say goodbye to her special buddy Merry--so all the cousins helped with one big cousin hug!

Emily with her special buddy Smiley. 

Alas, we did not think to get one last photo of me and Rebecca, or Mom and Dad and me and Rebecca--we were not the best photographers during this week together, but that just means we were all having too much fun, and were fully experiencing every moment together. : )

Rebecca and Emily and Sarah, thank you for coming out to see us!  Chris, thank you for making it possible for them to do so.  Mom and Dad, thank you for bringing them out and all the ways you helped make our time together so fun!  We love you all.