Gearing up for the season

This weekend we spent some time at the shop reupholstering the cushions in our trailer. While we were there, uncle Larry gifted Bridger with a variety of Packers tees, to ensure proper allegiance for the upcoming football season. Baby cheesehead in the making. Football in less than 4 weeks!

Day at the Park

Bridger and I spent the 24th picnicking and playing with Grandma, Grandpa, Sheryl, Taylee & Alaina at the park. Bridger neither loved nor hated the swings. In all, was just un-impressed.
Playing with Grandma on the slide.
Taking a ride with Alaina.

Taylee and Alaina feeding the geese and ducks.

The Bay

A couple of weeks ago, we were finally able to take the boat out to Willard Bay for her maiden voyage of the season. It was so nice to be in the sun and surf.
Bridger enjoying the flavorful properties of his life jacket.
Lounging about in his floaty.
Taking a break from all the excitement.

Frisco

Ahh, chilly, windy San Fran nights.

Chilly, windy San Fran days at the Golden Gate Bridge

Crookedest street in the world.

Also visited The Rock (Alcatraz duh)


...Where Kelly did some hard time...like, 30 seconds. Doesn't look too broken up to me.

Musee Mechanique

O em gee. This place deserves a post all its own. This was by far my most favorite activity of all, and better yet, totally free (with the exception of the $20 in quarters we spent trying every machine). This appears to be one of the largest collections of working coin operated games, instruments and antique arcades. Now located on pier 45 at Fisherman's Wharf FYI. The collection included a vast array of "xxx movies", which turned out to be gentlemen with shady intentions getting the crap beat out of them by large women. I also couldn't quite get enough of the palm reading machines and fortune tellers, from which I ascertained that I am lucky in love, but will likely die very soon. Comme ci, comme ca.

Furthermore

After Kelly finished work nonsense, we toured the Winchester Mystery House. I did not find this to be so incredibly mysterious. Just some crazy old coot building a house with her cripling arthritis in mind. Still cool though and I enjoyed it. Then we visited the mighty redwoods in Muir Forest and at some point, found a cantina with the most uhhhmazzzing food and beverage.

My Adventures in San Jose

Kelly had to go to San Jose to buy some splendiferous piece of machinery for work. But of course I followed. While he was working, I spent the day puttering around the city in my stupid Honda Cube trying to find things to entertain me. The sequence of events is backward, but we'll start with the Museum of Fine Arts. This is fine art, hu? Remind me next time I have to dig out fence posts, that I need only suspend them from the ceiling to be famous.


Mmmm...Thought provoking.


St. Joseph's Basilica. Purdy.


Wandered about the peace gardens for a awhile, feeling very...peaceful.


Last, but certainly not least, and first on my agenda actually, the Egyptian Museum. This dude was pretty cool, cause scans they did of his body prior to his restoration, revealed he had a crude, yet ingenious bit of hardware in his knee thought to have been a repair to some bony impingement he was suffering. The screw shaped device was probably 10 or so inches long and attached the femur to the shin bone. I am ever so thankful for advances in medical science and non-invasive procedures.