A Trip to San Francisco

Keri's Aunt Merrill and Uncle Burgess were visiting some of Burgess's family in San Francisco a few weekends ago, and we got to head out for a visit! Ez unfortunately couldn't go because he had a prior commitment with a temple trip for the youth at church, and Alexis was spending the weekend at Grandma Jane's in Sacramento.

The drive to San Francisco was fine, then we got off the freeway. Somehow we took a wrong turn and ended up in the heart of downtown on a rather vertical street. After getting stuck in the middle of the road at a few red lights, we found our way off the scary street and back down to more level terrain. We finally found where we needed to be, by some stroke of magic and got to the house all in one piece.

The house is one of those very lovely homes built in 1892 that survived the San Francisco earthquake. The basement (or at least that is what I would call it), is just a large room with a little stage. It's the kids play room now, but I guess back in the day it was a ballroom of sorts. How cool is that? The view out the master bedroom is amazing--a perfect view of Alcatraz. Again, how cool is that? It was neat to experience such a home.

We all had a nice time visiting. Burgess's son and daughter in law have kids almost the same age as David, Lily, Joe, and Evie, so everyone had a friend to play with. His daughter, her husband, and their twin girls were there as well. We had yummy pizza for lunch and Merrill made Beignets for dessert--they were delicious! I didn't end up taking too many photos, unfortunately, but we all had a great time! We were so glad they thought to call and have us over to visit.


Evie LOVED the little roller coaster ride


The slide was pretty fun too


Joe played air hockey and was convinced he needed Aunt Merrill's assistance, although she didn't need to do much more that cheer him on!


David, Joe, Lily, Evie, and Uncle Burgess