San Francisco

    So, the city is just so nice!  It’s perfect.  It literally is a city on a hill, or at least one that has grown UP a hill!  Cable cars, Golden Gate Park, Golden Gate Bridge, Alcatraz.  One thing is for sure.  When you’re in San Francisco, you are going to be doing a LOT of walking.  No really, you’re going to walk you butt off!!

So the city is beautiful but the hills can be a challenge.  Members of Sean's family live in the Bay area and his parents flew down so we were really given the local's perspective.  It was an incredible trip.  We went to Muir Woods National Monument and saw the redwoods.  They were incredible.  It was very quiet too.  The ground was soft with tree needles the trees blotted out the sun.  it was very cool inside the forest.

    Ok, San Francisco is great but man, their parades are terrible.  Ok, maybe they all aren't terrible, I only saw one, and maybe I'm prejudiced since I live in New Orleans and our Mardi Gras is unlike anything in the world.  Even so, I don't think San Francisco gets it, it was just the local plumbers #578 or whatever.  No throws, no costumes, no block partys...it just didn't seem to have the party energy that comes with parades down here.  That being said, we weren't there to celebrate the many different local unions, we were there to reconnect and drink butt loads of Guiness and Jameson and get drunk...Mission accomplished sir!  In grand fashion I may say.