Day 2

Eight graders at home.... we miss you! Answer to yesterday's question: Freaking cold, windy and misty! Pictures are in backwards chronological order. Still trying to figure out how to post them on this blog. Ugh!

We had a very fun day today experiencing San Francisco. We went to San Francisco State University and got a taste of college life in their commons, bookstore, Fine Arts Building and baseball fields. Sound stage Director of Cinema Arts Professor Jamison Goldner was kind enough to give us a small impromptu lecture on directing. He has been around since 1963 as one of the founding members of the Dept of Cinema. He and our tour guide Jimmy, a second year grad student gave us some interesting information about college life. We visited the Gators baseball field and had photo ops in the dugout.

After a quick lunch out of the back of the cars we drove to Blazing Saddles for our bike ride. I stayed back with three of the kids while the rest braved the cold misty wind for the ten mile ride along San Francisco Bay and across the Golden Gate Bridge.

Two hours later, our famished group walked to the Rainforest Cafe for refueling and a well deserved dinner. Unfortunately we ran out of time to get on the tour bus before they closed so we did some very touristy stuff....The Wax Museum (ask your kids about the electrocution chair!) and Ripley's Believe it or Not. We dragged ourselves back to the cars close to 9:30 and am still wondering when the kids are going to run out of energy!

Question of the day: The bridge is celebrating a milestone birthday this year. Find out how old it is.