San Francisco trip December 2010--Visiting Patricia and Yusuke with Mom!

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breakfast1.jpg

breakfast3.jpg: Another breakfast shot, except I'm in the picture and Yusuke is taking it.

alcatraz.jpg: We went sightseeing a bit and Patricia, Mom, and Yusuke were looking out over the water at Alcatraz.

foggyview3.jpg: It was a really foggy view that day.

alcatraz2.jpg: Here you can see a good shot of the prison.

goldengate1.jpg: Yay, Golden Gate Bridge.

goldengate2.jpg: There we are with it.

buyingtree.jpg: Patricia and Yusuke decided to get a Christmas tree for their place. It's a small tree and this is them about to buy it.

pinkbearontree1.jpg: But she's never had a Christmas tree before, so she's not really sure what to put on it. . . .

pinkbearontree2.jpg: Think this is a good decoration?

openhand.jpg: Another thing we did while visiting was volunteer at Project Open Hand. My sister does a shift there every week and my mom and I joined in during our visit. We chopped mushrooms and peeled carrots for about three hours as part of a charity food program, and then we got a free meal afterwards. :)

garlanded.jpg: To help with the decorations, I finger-knitted a bunch of yarn into a garland for the tree. But before we put it on, Patricia decided to see what it looked like on me first.

garlanding1.jpg: Here's P putting the garland where it belongs.

garlanding2.jpg: Looks nice!

pzoltar.jpg: We went out to a pier thing to see the seals and check out the shops, and P decided to play the Zoltar fortune-telling machine.

icecreamtree2.jpg: There was a big Christmas tree in the middle of everything. Here's me, Mom, and Yusuke posing with it, with our ice cream.

icecreamtree.jpg: Similar shot except now Patricia is in the shot.

housecollection.jpg: While driving around, we saw some pretty cool street layouts. Look at all those houses.

curvystreet.jpg: Lombard Street, the crookedest street in the world!

ornaments1.jpg: The quest to decorate the tree continues! We had Patricia's friends Amber and Kyle over, and they brought surprise ornaments. Yusuke was excited.

ornaments2.jpg: Here he is happily decorating the tree.

ornaments3.jpg: Kyle is helping fix the lights.

ambergarland.jpg: There was also this silver garland thing, and Kyle appears to think Amber needed to be decorated with it. She doesn't look too amused.

garlanding3.jpg: They sure were having fun though.

pyfirsttree.jpg: Here they are showing off their first tree. (They were not attempting to look like robots, but somehow they look mechanical. . . . )

kafirsttree.jpg: Kyle and Amber posing with the tree as well.