First we picked up cake, then Leilani and Jay and a little bit later Ana and drove to the Coyote Point park and played on the playground while waiting for Oliver to be dropped off
The girls were very fascinated with this solar powered aquaponic system and wanted their picture taken
Inside the museum the vortex seemed to be the favorite this time. I’ll have to post a movie…
We had lunch and then cake
ANd then we tested Andy’s back… it held!
We played a little while…
… and then went back to visit Lily where we baked cookies and had pizza
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We had a polarizer on the camera and it messed up all the photos. if you think they are bad now, you should have seen them before I worked on them. Probably spent more time on these than on the rest of the trip together…
Megan, Ethan and Ella
San Francisco Views
Silicon Valley and Mount Hamilton
In the evening we were invited at Ana, Jeanne and Dave’s house for a great dinner
We were invited to watch a play.
Leilani met her friends Mariana and Narnia at Millbrae park. In California Kindergarten seems to be 3-4 hours at most schools, not 7 like here and the kids are a lot happier with that arrangement. But I should not complain, I’m quite happy with our homeschooling.
Later we went for a walk along the bay:
In the evening we went to the San Bruno library for story time and crafts just like when we lived there.
We first tried to go to the Legion of Honors, because it was free and Leilani did like the sculpture garden quite a bit, and seemd interested in the art inside, but the minute Narnia showed up it was over. They behaved like 6 year olds… or worse :-)
We gave up and drove to the Exploratorium. On the way there the iphone got me lost. I get lost a lot more now, that I don’t have paper maps anymore.
Leilani loved it enough that I got a membership.
This exhibit had a green pained room in the little house and a white room with green light. One could stick an arm in and see the different light. If that was too boring there was also a train going around that could be watched by the less scientifically inclined…
Big bubbles…
And lots of fun computer stuff
Velcro building shapes!
And blocks for patterns…
We actually built that catenary arch!
We met Andy at the Moma, which was free that day as well and walked around for the last hour. Leilani asked why they put up young people’s paintings and didn’t quite believe that famous adults painted that stuff.
She really liked that one though…
We went to see Union Square and the Westin and the Swarofski Crystal Shop, and Leilani pestered us to go ice skating. It was really cold and we promised to come back for ice skating the next day.
We went back to Union Square the next morning and ice skated for about 3 hours. I didn’t manage to get one good photo. And the other cool things that day were a birthday rose that Leilani found by the side of the road, that we took along and that turned out to be one of the prettiest roses, it opened up all the way and was still beautiful the day we flew home. And we visited a church with beautiful stained glass windows and admired the light inside.
Later at night we visited Kelby and Belen. Silvia had cooked and excellent dinner, and it got pretty late.
The next day we went back to the Exploratorium. On the way there I turned off the iphone GPS and focussed on the road signs and didn’t get lost…
Magnetism is fascinating…
And in the evening we went back to Union Square for more iceskating
