{"id":779593,"date":"2010-04-25T13:52:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-25T21:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/2010\/04\/25\/san-francisco-birthday-day-trip\/"},"modified":"2010-04-25T13:52:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-25T21:52:00","slug":"san-francisco-birthday-day-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/2010\/04\/25\/san-francisco-birthday-day-trip\/","title":{"rendered":"San Francisco Birthday Day Trip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In honor of my birthday, David took us to spend a day in San Francisco!\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>We began with an awesome crab feast lunch at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.joescrabshack.com\/\">Joe&#8217;s Crab Shack!<\/a>\u00a0 It was our first time there, and we loved it!!\u00a0 &#8216;A&#8217; was in absolute crab heaven.\u00a0 We got him his own steam pot.\u00a0 &#8216;R&#8217; was happy with his cheese pizza, and enjoyed playing with the crab claw I gave him.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The ocean runs in my blood and I love all things seafood.\u00a0 I can pick a crab clean in record time.\u00a0 It&#8217;s not pretty, but it sure is <em>YUMMY!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The wait staff does a dance every 45 minutes.\u00a0 I caught a little on tape&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4060\/4551719626_28f4b12666.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nAfter a thoroughly satisfying lunch, we walked along Fisherman&#8217;s Wharf, with the intent to suprise the kids with an Alcatraz tour.\u00a0 Unfortunately, they were sold out, so on to plan B&#8230;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4045\/4551083223_21dbc6cc7c.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4066\/4551083797_06936d140e.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4010\/4551721250_49888408ec.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4050\/4551085117_12a8d0e7e0.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4062\/4551086159_9b601a66af.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nThis is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boudinbakery.com\/\">Boudin<\/a> bakery.\u00a0 They have a glass window where you can see the bakers in action and interact with them through an intercom system&#8230;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4064\/4551086881_654309ae51.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nWe drove through the neighborhood, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sanfranshuttletours.com\/cow_hollow.htm\">Cow Hollow<\/a>, then took the top off our Jeep to drive through the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sanfranshuttletours.com\/the_presidio.htm\">Presidio<\/a>.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4045\/4551087741_82472e6db8.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4045\/4551088281_3c81ab43c2.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nWe stopped and walked the grounds of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.famsf.org\/legion\/\">Legion of Honor.<\/a><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4023\/4551088685_348a77606d.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4019\/4551089159_aee9afbc94.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nThe courtyard contained a single sculpture, &#8216;The Thinker&#8217; by Rodin.\u00a0 The boys were excited to see it and said they knew this piece.\u00a0 I was all proud of my homeschool mom self, and assuming it was from one of our art lessons that they learned about it, I asked them where they learned of it.\u00a0 Both replied enthusiastically, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1078912\/\">The Night at the Museum&#8221;! <\/a>\u00a0\u00a0 (I&#8217;m thinkin&#8217;&#8230;.I&#8217;m thinkin&#8217;&#8230;)<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4005\/4551726274_0540bd59d7.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4033\/4551089939_dff8918738.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4047\/4551090525_79b7a2a0e1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nWe continued on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.parksconservancy.org\/visit\/park-sites\/ocean-beach.html\">Ocean Beach<\/a>, and managed to stay on the beach for maybe 20 minutes.\u00a0 It was so windy, the sand kept blowing up in our faces.\u00a0 This was the kids highlight of the day, so we had to make due for a while.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4023\/4551727610_aefcda9097.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4065\/4551091221_a6a9f02dbb.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4035\/4551728570_852ec5d304.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4072\/4551728956_2ac586aca0.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nOn the way back, we drove through another beautiful neighborhood, Monterey Heights.\u00a0 They were filming a movie there.\u00a0 We did not stop to find out what it was.<\/p>\n<p>It was a FUN FAMILY DAY!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In honor of my birthday, David took us to spend a day in San Francisco!\u00a0 We began with an awesome crab feast lunch at Joe&#8217;s Crab Shack!\u00a0 It was our first time there, and we loved it!!\u00a0 &#8216;A&#8217; was in absolute crab heaven.\u00a0 We got him his own steam pot.\u00a0 &#8216;R&#8217; was happy with his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-779593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family-fun"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=779593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779593\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=779593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=779593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=779593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}