June 11, 2013

• We escaped from the 100+ degree heat,  spending all weekend in the Bay Area – yay!

  Happy Birthday Mom and Rob (Alice’s boyfriend)! We celebrated with sushi, brownie ice cream cake, spicy Cheetos, seaweed, and pho. We got to see baby Dylan again, who has plumped up quite a bit since our last visit. Sophie thinks he’s fussy, but he was a good baby while we visited. In fact, she didn’t want to take him out for dinner, but Eddie was lured by Pho, and I convinced them that 5 adults can definitely take on 1 baby. As it turns out, not even a peep from Dylan the entire meal. This is good news because it will increase their confidence in taking him out. It’s the first step in convincing them it’s a good idea to travel with young children. Especially to Hawaii for my 40th birthday next year.  

    

   

   

  All Sunday, we played at the new Exploratorium on Pier 15/17. Thanks Rob for the discounted tickets! The kids had SO much fun – and the adults were entertained as well, since we are all big science geeks. My kids love hands-on experiments and repetition, so although we got there before opening and stayed until they closed, we only went through about a third of the museum!

    

    

  We had lunch at Seagrass, the restaurant inside the museum, which ran us almost $70 … and none of us got drinks or dessert either! It seems we can’t go out for a meal for much less anymore, especially in big cities. That said, the food was good, you can’t beat the convenience, and well … I guess we could consider it a non-tax-deductible donation to the museum.

    

   

    

  We had dinner at Il Fornaio before heading back home. To a shady 78 degrees. What great timing!

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