San Francisco

This past weekend Wayne and I were able to take a little vacation over to San Francisco. My parents were kind enough to come up to watch Lucas so Wayne and I went by ourselves. I am not going to lie...it was hard to leave him. I knew he would be safe but this was my first time away from him overnight since he was born so I was a bit of a mess.:) But we were able to do a lot of cool things and we made it home in one piece, just barely, but more on that later.

This isn't a very good picture but this is us at Alcatraz Island with San Francisco in the background. It is only and mile and half from the prison.

This is Wayne at Alcatraz Island that is the Golden Gate Bridge over his shoulder. The head phones are for the great audio tour at the island.


This is Wayne in one of the prison cells.

This is the sign that welcomes you to Alcatraz.

Here we are on the island with the bay in the background. The hats were absolutely necessary...it was freezing!!!

We walked from the train to the trolley station to go to Alcatraz. On the way we passed the Bay Bridge here is Wayne with it in the background. This picture really doesn't do it justice...it is huge!!!!

Here is Wayne and AT&T Park...home of the San Francisco Giants. We passed it on our walk to the trolley station.

Here we are on our hour and a half train ride to San Francisco from San Jose... it took a long time but was way better that driving in the insanity that is San Francisco. He were staying in San Jose because the Rebels were playing there and we wanted to be close to the game. I actually don't have any pictures of the game because my camera had died by then but after some ugly play we did pull out a win. :) The important things in life right.

Here is Wayne at Winchester Mansion. It is this mansion that Sarah Winchester the widow of the president of Winchester Rifles built on 24 hours a day for 38 years!!! It has all sorts of weird stuff because there was absolutely no plan. Stairways that lead nowhere, windows and door that open to walls etc. It was pretty cool. The reason for all the building is a long story so if you are interested just google Winchester Mansion.:)
Those are all the pictures I took but the most "exciting" part of the trip was the way back. A trip that took us 4 1/2 hours on the way there took nearly 12 on the way back. Why you ask? Snow!?!? We got caught in a snowstorm on the I-80 over Donner Pass, we got a few miles up the mountain and the traffic just stopped. 2 hours later they informed us the road was closed unless you had chains which, being from Las Vegas, of course we didn't. So we went back down the mountain got chains, put them on and traveled 30 mph all the way to Reno. Now keep in mind it is maybe 60 miles to Reno from where we were...5 HOURS later we pulled into Reno. During all of this we also had the fact that my parents were supposed to catch a flight back to Las Vegas at 3:00, so we had to figure out what to with our sweet little boy Lucas. Luckily we have some great friend in the ward who agreed to take him short notice, and a great friend in Shelley who was willing to take him over night. Luckily we made it back to Carson City by about 7:00, after picking up our other car in Reno, (my parents had to take it to the airport) and me driving white knuckled all the way to Carson City. Special shout-out to Wayne for never losing his cool during the whole trip even while I was pretty sure I was going to have either a heart attack or and anxiety attack. What a great husband!!