San Francisco

On New Year's Day, after sleeping one night at our house, we left again.  Ryan was attending the AFA Conference in San Francisco, and we all drove up with him to spend a few days in the city!  
  

Our Hotel

The first exciting thing that happened, the morning after we arrived, was that I confirmed we were unexpectedly expecting our fifth baby!  It was a shock.  And kinda cool.  And crazy.

After that, we headed over to take the cable cars with our friends, the Palmers.  We waited in line for about an hour and a half to get onboard, then it broke down for awhile, then got us to Fisherman's Wharf.  We walked around, ate seafood, and watched the street performers before heading back to our hotel to swim.
   

  

 
On Sunday, we did Chinatown and Lombard Street, then drove north to the Golden Gate Bridge.  It was much nicer weather than the last time we did the bridge, but the little kids made Ryan crazy nervous.  We spent the rest of the day driving randomly around Sausalito.
  

  
In the mornings, when Ryan had his conference, we mostly hung around the hotel pool.  The kids goofed off while I worked on our blog, and Elise mostly played her new 3DS (because we'd forgotten her swimsuit).
   

On our last full day there, I took the kids across the bay in the morning to hang out with the Palmers.  We went to an indoor playground called Bounce-a-Rama, where Connor scrounged over five dollars in tokens from under the games.
  

The kids "bonded" over their individual video games.

All the balls in the ball pit were labeled "Proberty of Bounce-a-Rama"

On our way home, we drove along the coast and stopped in Monterrey for an hour when we saw this rainbow.  We thought it would be fun to drive down through Big Sur, not realizing that there was no way out once you start through there.  We got stuck driving in the rainy, cliffy dark with no cell signal, but we didn't die.