Amy, Chris, Neil & I took a little jaunt out to the Bay Area this weekend. It was exceedingly fun. We stayed with a college roomate of Neil's right downtown in the Nob Hill area. We toured around and in 3 days managed to visit old friends & catch all of the major sites- SFMOMA, Fishermans's warf, Union Square, Golden Gate park/bridge, Chinatown.... it was great.
The only problem with San Francisco is that you have to come home!
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At least it's warmer than Utah - Let's all move there!!!!
I second that! SF was super fun. If anyone wants to see more pictures (including some hilarious picts of us on the Trolley) go to Kate and Neil's website, click on Links, and click on their flickr photo site link. :)
I am suspicious about the knit caps and hunched shoulders. But it was January, and you know Mark Twain's famous quote, 'The coldest winter I ever spent was my summer in San Francisco.'
That was true for me. I had lived in AZ and UT my whole life and my year in the Bay it was like Portland weather the whole time. And I was never suspicious that I could afford to live there, at least in one of the non-murder capital areas like East Palo Alto.
We had a stretch here where it was warmish, then warm and wet, then cold and snowy, now back to cold and wet.
Anyone hear they might demolish Alcatraz? That was our favorite thing there, did you guys go?
Whoa, demolish Alcatraz, why? We didn't get to go there, but we saw it from afar! It was pretty sweet lookin from the warf.
I didn't hear why, probably cost. There probably isn't enough tourist revenue to maintain the unusual ageing structure.
It was a cool tour though. We rode across the bay on boats and after the tour they let you explore a bit.
We took some pics of the kids (I think there were just barely four so Sadie must have been small) in the 'cells.' They were impressed.
Also my second rec for a tour of the bay area would be to make sure you visit the Oakland Temple grounds, even if you don't plan to go in. It has a prime location in the Oakland-Berkely hills and has one of the best views anywhere (of the bay and the temple itself, of course!)
My third rec would be to visit Stanford Campus, ah I miss the farm... a little. Some things were cool about it like the Rodin Sculpture garden. Everyone always was saying 'wow, is that THE original THINKER statue?' when they came to campus, but turns out Rodin made quite a few of them, same with 'the kiss.' He was very prolific with the bronze.
Amy, can you send me a few email addresses when you get a chance? OK if it takes a while. I need yours, Neil's, Chris's, Matt's and Jake's.
We actually did go to Stanford. Man, that is one beautiful campus! It makes BYU look shameful. I loved the mission style architexture. We basically went to check out the campus, but Chris also talked to a med school administrator and we found out some info/stats for their MDPHD program that Chris likes.
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