San Jose in the eyes of my kids.
Day 1 - A long plane flight made short for the kids with good timing for Kendall's nap and a little Benedryl for Delaney. We get to SF and get our car. I love Hertz!!!! We start driving into SF to go to the Exploratorium, a great museum for people of all ages. On the way, we are trying to find a friend of my wife's house. Driving around 14th st, 15th st, trying to remember the address, then trying to find Hot N Chunky. Last time we were here we had a great blue cheese burger there and have been dreaming about one the whole flight.
Delaney is starving and getting really crabby at this point, so we stop at a KFC/Taco Bell combo to get some food. We're giving up as the kids scream louder. After successfully avoiding a beggar, I get some food only to return to a crying little boy who wanted to go in with me. The things we do for kids. I take him in breifly, but he wants milk, which they are out of. We walk a couple blocks and find a hole-in-the-wall market and get some. White and Strawberry,
When I return, my wife has remembered the address and we give it a try. Success. Hot N Hunky, not Hot N Chunky and I run in and order. I go back out to see if my wife wants fries and she sees her friends flat. So I get elected to go seee if she still lives there. She does and I stand there with Delaney waiting for her to get off the phone. Finally I give up and go back out to collect my burger. It's hot and waiting and I grab it and come back out.
Now my wife is talking and my kid wants to ride the trolley. He saw a couple in the city while we were driving and now sees one drive past a block away. He's dying to go on it and my wife agrees, so I get elected to park the car.
I've got Delaney next to me talking as I ddrive around and around a 2 block radius looking for a space. My burger is calling my name, I can smell the bleu cheese. Finally I park on the top of a hill and we start walking.
"carry me"
I love that, but sometimes I don't want to. Like when I have a brown paper Hot N Hunky sack with me. He gets 2 blocks and I put him down. I start to wolf down the burger as we walk the last block, Ugg Mayo. I should have specified blue cheese, mustard and onions and stopped there.
Oh well.
We spend the next two hours riding tolleys and getting a bite to eat as the kids nap. Once they wake up, I introduce Delaney to the Silver man, one of the street entertainers near Fisherman's Wharf.
Finally we get back to the car and drive to San Jose and check in. My wife needs a couple things and runs out to Wal Mart and a grocery store and finally returns around 9:30. We get the kids into bed and collapse ourselves.
No football, but I got a few highlights and it was a good day.
That was Day 1.
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