San Francisco- Day 3

We began our last day in San Francisco with another trip to Mama's for breakfast- so yummy!

Then Cory's Aunt Virginia (who lives 30 minutes outside of SF) came and picked us up and took us to see where Cory's cousin works. His cousin runs a company that creates video games for the XBox and Playstation. Cory has always wanted to see where he works and how the games are made, so we decided that this would probably be our only opportunity to do that.

It was great to see Virginia for a little while. She comes to Texas a couple of times a year so we do not get to see her very often. She was a great tour guide and pointed out several interesting things on the way out of SF.

Cory's cousins works on Hamilton Air Force Base in Novato, CA. They converted the old airplane hangers into office buildings and his video game company is based in one of them. It was very interesting to see all of the gaming engineers working on one of the new games that is coming out in October.

After our tour, Virginia drove us around the base and we got to see where she lives. She then drove us and dropped us off in Sausalito, another tourist town in the SF area. We really enjoyed our short visit with Virginia and appreciate the time she took to drive us all over the SF area.

We spent a couple of hours in Sausalito walking through the town, browsing in the shops, and eating outside at a little hole-in-the-wall pizza place.

We then took a ferry back to San Francisco. It was very windy and cold on the ferry but the views of the city were great!

View of the Golden Gate Bridge

San Francisco skyline

Alcatraz- "The Rock"- We did not do a tour of Alcatraz this trip because we had both been there on our previous trips, but if you have never been to SF, I would highly recommend going and taking the tour.
After resting at the hotel for a little while, we decided to end our day by taking a cable car down to Union Square. We walked around for about an hour and then rode the cable car back to the piers where we grabbed a hamburger at California's In and Out Burger. Because it was the last day of our trip, we splurged and had one more ice cream sundae at Ghiradelli's! It was a great ending to a great vacation!

Union Square

Cable car

Cory riding the cable car

After almost missing our flight on Saturday morning (and by almost, I mean literally running to the gate and onto the plane!) we made it safely back home. It was great to see Parker and Eden and get back to the daily tasks of being a mommy. I am so thankful to everyone who helped with their care while we were gone. Still to come are posts about the fun things they did while we were gone.