My Trip With My Sissy

My sister finally sent me her pictures. I know it has taken her forever, but she has been a little busy, what with having surgery and all. Anyways, so a couple of weeks ago my sister Kate was in San Francisco on business and so I met up with her and we had a great time.

First, her flight was canceled and so I spent the afternoon driving around, trying to find a parking spot, and then trying to not get a parking ticket. I was a Nervous Nelly trying to navigate around downtown, especially since as I mentioned before, my wonderful navigation system wasn't working. I drove into two parking garages that weren't the right ones for her hotel. Luckily they were the smallest parking garages in all of San Francisco, so they were really easy to navigate my mini-van through. I gave the parking attendants a good laugh though. So I gave up on trying to find her parking garage and just decided to park somewhere. I finally found some street parking a couple of miles away, but then I was really nervous as I watched 3 cars get towed away. Finally my sister arrived and we got all settled.

We headed out to my family's favorite pizza place in the Bay, Toto's Pizza. My aforementioned wonderful navigation system took us way far away to the take-out only location. We finally found the restaurant after driving around for about an hour. When we got there we noticed that they had a special running for the X-Large pizza and a family size salad. It seemed like it would be too much food, but we just couldn't pass up such a good deal. The pizza took up most of the table.

I am not a bit embarrassed to admit that the two of us ate half of it. It was SO good. My mouth is watering as I am looking at the pictures.

We went and got a cooler and I took the rest home to Nick. It was really fun to carry this cooler all around with me. When I was leaving to go home, the lid flew off in the middle of the street. So I was chasing it all around the street with my arms full of my luggage. As soon as I would try and pick it up, it would blow away again. So fun.

I spent the night on her hotel room floor. She was traveling with her co-worker and had two beds. It turns out that they were twin beds, so I slept right in between the two beds. It was quite cozy. The next day we went out to breakfast at a cute little diner and then to Fisherman's Wharf. We had the delicious sourdough bread and Katie rode the carousel.

Katie is quite a bit better at posing than me, she really gets all into it.

Nick (Katie's co-worker), me, Katie and Katie-Jo (co-worker) down at the wharf.

Of course we got some salt water taffy, yum!

All in all it was a great little trip. It was fun to get away. Thanks Nick for watching the kids and letting me get away. Thanks for the great trip Katie. It was so fun to spend some time together!