Vacation!

I'm writing this blog from beautiful San Francisco, California. With our oldest son going into his senior year in high school, my wife and I decided that we'd take a big trip this summer since the number of "family" vacations available left to take is approaching 0.

We flew out of Indy at about 9:30 Friday night and arrived in S.F. about 11:00. It's about a four and a half hour flight but with the time change, we only lost an hour and a half! Getting a rental car and luggage was easy and we were soon on our way to the hotel, which is only about four miles from the airport.

Needless to say, we were all completely worn out so the excitement of the trip did not outweigh the need for sleep so getting everyone in bed was pretty easy.

Yesterday we decided to head downtown S.F. to check things out. We were headed to Fisherman's Wharf and passed by the baseball stadium. There was an afternoon game yesterday and we considered stopping but since none of us are really big baseball fans anyway, decided to move on.

Fisherman's Wharf was a great place to walk around and get some lunch. The view of Alcatraz Island was fantastic but there was just a bit too much fog to see the Golden Gate Bridge. We toured a bakery, Boudin Bakery, to see how they made bread. I wasn't too excited about the tour when we bought the tickets but for $3 a person, how bad could it have been? I was pleasantly surprised to have a self-guided overhead tour of the bakery. We could see every step in the bread-making process and there were displays showing exactly what was going on. At the end of the day, we all decided this was one of the highlights of the day.

We also visited the world's crookedest street (Lombard Street) and walked up and down the steps next to it. My daughter wanted to drive down the street but the line of cars stretched as far as we could see so we decided to try this another day.

Today we'll be off to see the redwoods in Muir Woods if I can get everyone else out of bed.

Stay tuned and I'll keep you informed where we are and what we're doing. Unfortunately, I don't have the camera software installed on my laptop so I won't be able to post pictures until we're back home.