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<\/p>\nGrandma Rosemary came to visit. Leilani had been excited for a week, and was so happy when she finally arrived. On Thursday we went to San Francisco, Andy dropped us off near the Maritime museum, which was our first stop:
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Inside the museum there were beautiful murals and they had a treasure hunt on for children. Leilani loved it and found most of the items. Since she did so well the friendly ranger gave her another booklet to her to find more things and to note sounds and try things…and there was a big reward at the end. She was so happy about this. That photo shows the first treasure hunt:
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After we left the museum building we went to see the museum ships. There were pulleys to try.
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\nWe visited the most interesting ships and kept filling out the booklet
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The big reward at the end. Leilani was sworn in as a junior ranger, to protect the parks and the environment and received a ranger badge. She repeated the long and complicated oath and for hours talked about busting flower pickers and people who feed squirrels in the parks.
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Lunch. We don’t know if it was lunch or dinner, but we had severe symptoms the next day. Bad enough that Leilani was actually sent home from school. At least it was really tasty and looked all healthy.
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We walked to pier 39 and got tickets for the Bay Cruise,
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while we waited Leilani got to ride the carousel.
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The weather was even more beautiful than on our first cruise, and we were better prepared for the cold wind.
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\nI prevented her from sticking her head all the way through the hole…
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A nice German tourist held her up for a little while so she could look over the railing after a wave made some people stumble dangerously close to where she was lying. But since he was not that sturdy either I was actually glad when he got tired and put her down.<\/p>\n
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Our next stop was the wax museum, Leilani was scared in several sections, near the horror part you could hear the scary sounds, that did it for her and she left out 40% of the museum. The rest fascinated her, especially Kate Winslet and (even more) Leonardo DiCaprio in Titanic, she actually drew a picture of the couple on the ship just before it sinks and made me google the rating (PG13, 8 to go) and wants a picture book of the story…(I did tell her what I remember and she still wants to see it, she is so much into love stories and even the sadness of it doesn’t scare her of)
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More age appropriate
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Andy met us at Pier 39 and we had dinner at the Rainforest Cafe. Too late, too tired, slow service, bad food.
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