San Francisco

Oh how I love this city. Could be the food, the shopping, the crowds of people,the people watching!, the Starbucks on every street corner, and the sites or maybe all of the above, but I just love visiting San Francisco. Pretty sure I could never live there, at least not with kids, but we do love visiting with the kids. We've tried to make it an annual thing to go at Christmas time and see the city all decorated and coming alive with the festivities. This year the big highlights were staying at the hotel and riding the cable cars. Funny how kids LOVE hotels. It was nothing fancy - a Courtyard Marriott, but as we were in our room staring out at all of the lights in the city, Cole asked me if we could move here. Wonder how long it would take for that excitement to wear off? We weren't able to get in any swimming time at the pool - which is usually what the kids love to do, but we were only there 2 days and had a lot of stuff we wanted to get in. We also got unlimited passes on the cable cars on Sunday which was pretty cool. Cole loved hanging off the side of the cars holding the pole (see pictures below). Made me kind of nervous but Jim was there with him. The cable cars were all decorated with Christmas lights and garland and looked so pretty cruising around the city at night. We ate dinner in China town and it was really yummy, did some shopping, took the kids to their favorite park (funny how you take the kids to an entirely new city and all they want to still do is play at the park!)and of course did lots and lots of walking, which was tough on this prego mommy! We also met up with one of Jim's high school friends, Angie, her husband and their two adorable children, Lucy and Charlie. All in all a super fun weekend! I didn't have the camera with me so these are all iPhone pictures :-) The Christmas tree outside of Macy's in Union Square  
 
 

Cole, Lucy and Olivia