Sunday, February 7, 2010

We have been covered up with rain lately!!! I mean the kind of rain that almost needs one to construct an ark! But I know that we need it and well, blah blah blah....I was shocked anyway to wake up to glorious sunshine this morning. The already bright at 7 am sunshine.....WOOHOO!!! I immediately decided that I would take Ella and Edie to The Bay Area Children's Museum....partly because I have been wanting to check it out and partly because we NEEDED to get out and do something!!! So we got ready and off we went......have I mentioned that I would be taking TWO 2 year olds to a big place ......BY MYSELF ??? Well, I was nervous, sort of ....but it turned out that I had no need to be nervous ... the place is awesome and it's geared mostly towards tiny tots and these girls ROCK at having a great time.
See that teensy paragraph up there ... the one you just read... yeah, that took me about an hour to write!!! Wanna know why???? Well, your gonna......The Saints won the Superbowl!!! Who Dat???? And you may or may not know that even though I live in California I am a Louisiana Cajun Girl .....and my friends are even more Cajun crazy than me!!! They are some proud (and really drunk) folks right now ....so they all want to call and share their joy with me. I appreciate it!!! I am jealous!!! Not about the drunkenness but about being in the midst of a bunch of crazy fun cajun folks!!! And the food!!! Really, I am jealous mostly of the food ...
Now some California fun......we pulled up to the museum and parked right in front of this.....(that is NOT our Volvo....)

Edie and Ella were so excited and had such a fun fun time!!! Edie mostly skipped, hopped and ran yelling weeeeeeee through the place!

The "tot spot" had a little outdoor stream set up and we all know how much our girls LOVE water!


They had an arts and crafts building.......


A place to do wall painting.....


A "shipwreck" area where you could dig in the sand for treasure! Well, Ella Grace dug her heart out!!! Seriously, like 20 minutes of digging and dumping....which is really like 47 hours in toddler time!!!!

And some more "stream" time....


The girls were worn out by the time we left!!! Ella fell asleep before we even left the parking lot! Since they were asleep in the car I took advantage and drove around a while for some awesome sunny scenery! I only had my "old" camera but she's still got it!!! I mean it's hard to take bad pictures when your subject is awesomeness!!!
We saw surfers.....

Strolling couples.......(gosh I just realized if you click on this picture to enlarge it ...it looks like a tidal wave is on it's way to sweep this lovely couple out to sea)

Fabulous greenery ...I am so sorry to my East Coast "Snowed" in friends......love ya'll!!!

An freaky ....REALLY FREAKY tunnel to get to the awesomeness!!! It was the longest, darkest tunnel I have ever been in. This picture does not do it justice because by the time I thought to take the picture (and yes I was driving and picturing) we were almost out....you can see the light. Imagine driving 5 minutes with no idea how much longer you have!!! FREAKY!!! And to make matters worse ....you really have no idea if you are under water or land...and at one point this huge leaky area dumps a bucket of water on your car.......I don't know about you but that scared the CRAP out of me. But you know me it may have been less dramatic than it sounds.....or NOT!!!

Some great Golden Gate Bridge shots.....


Here is where the Pacific meets San Francisco Bay.....

More GG Bridge......

4 comments:

Danifred said...

What a beautiful day you had! I love the paint wall, what a great idea.
I have to admit, those dead-looking fish made me take a second look :)

Esther and Brian said...

I spent 4 months in San Francisco for an internship years ago and it is my absolute favorite city in the States! The museum looked like a ton of fun for the girls- great idea, Mamma!

Adriane said...

Great pics!!!!! Love San Fran. And, I was SO happy to see the Saints win. WOOT!

Kelly B said...

Wow! What a great day you girls had. I understand the rain thing. We are excited each time the sun comes out too down in So. Cal.

Glad you are well. --Kelly