San Francisco Trip

At the beginning of April we decided we needed a new couch in the downstairs playroom/office. So after lots of internet looking we picked one from Ikea. But to have the thing sent to us (in the woods) was gonna cost a ridiculous amount of money...so we turned to our closest Ikea which is in Palo Alto (4.5 hours away)and so we thought we could make a weekend of the couch buying and enjoy San Fran for some time!

We left on Friday night and headed in to the city. We stayed at a really nice hotel called The Cova Hotel! Out room was awesome! The bathroom was gigantic and Jack and Molly had a great time playing in there. Sat morning we got up and headed to the California Academy of Sciences in Golden Gate Park. What an amazing place! I think the kids favorite part was the planetarium. It was really very cool. We also liked the roof which was covered entirely in grass and plants. They wanted to make it look like they just lifted a section of the park up and built the building underneath - it worked! They also had an aquarium and lots of cool exhibits. And the best food court/restaurant I have ever seen in a museum!!!

We left the Academy and took a taxi to the Wharf. Then we took a boat ride around the Bay on the Red and White Fleet! The kids really liked this. Jack loved getting to wear the headphones that told him all about the Bay. He could quite understand how the machine knew where we were and what we were looking at...cute!

After that we walked up to Ghirardelli's and had ice cream! Brian and I split a really yummy sundae..mmmmm.

Sunday we had lunch with our friends - The Robinson's (fun, thanks guys) - and then went to Ikea to buy the couch! Great trip...lots of fun and very productive!