San Francisco in a day

We pulled into James' conference hotel right around noon on Monday. James had to get to work, so we grabbed a quick lunch and he headed off. The boys and I started our trek into San Francisco: first the hotel shuttle to the airport and then the BART train into downtown, then the cable car down to the wharf. It was nearly 3:30 by the time we got to the water...of course, all of the modes of transportation were part of the adventure for the boys!

They were pretty excited to be riding the cable car:

We started off inside the car but got to move up to the front (where I could stand and hang on!) when people got off at Lombard Street:

We didn't have nearly enough time to fully explore...no tour of Alcatraz, just a couple pictures from a distance:

We spent a surprising amount of time at the Boudin Sourdough Bakery, watching the bakers and all of their machines.

Have you noticed Brady's glasses? He stepped on them and broke out the left lens, but still insisted on wearing them. He got a lot of comments from the baker and the street performers about his unique sense of style!

Watching the sea lions at Pier 39:

We also managed to squeeze in some time for the a hot fudge sundae and some samples at the Ghiradelli chocolate store - the boys had a hard time deciding which of the chocolate, bread, cable car, or sea lions was their favorite part of San Francisco!