Right before Max turned 9 months, we embarked on a journey out West to visit GG and Gramps and our friends Beth & Jay and family, who we went to undergrad school with. I had been super nervous and tried to prepare for the worst - that is two kids under the age of 4, and flying clear across the country, starting at 4 am east coast time, and getting to CA around 1 pm west coast time. In a nut shell, we lost Piggy at school the night before, but luckily found him at a classmate's house at around 8 pm the night before. This was just the beginning. Surprisingly, the air plane portion of the trip went fairly smoothly on the way out. We arrived early to Vegas, but stayed on the same plane. Since we arrived so early, they let everyone off the plane. We decided to stay on, which was a good idea, as Karmann had the whole plane as a playground, for which she took full advantage! This was good, as I think she slept on the second leg to CA. However, once we got to Sacramento, everything except our main luggage bag showed up. The customer service man said that often bags don't even get on the air plane from Orlando. Interesting, because the car seat and other bag did make it. Anyway, the bag didn't show up until 3 pm at the airport, which meant it was just in time to make the delivery shuttle for them to bring it to my mom's house. It finally arrived around 7 pm that night.
After that point, our luck was much better, and I actually started to calm down and enjoy the vacation. We had a wonderful fun-filled time at my mom and Denny's house. They watched the kids overnight while Kris and I headed into the city (San Fran) so that he could run in the San Francisco Marathon. We stayed at the Hilton just south of Chinatown and met up with our friend Claudia and her fiance for dinner. We realized it had been about 7 years since we had seen her last! So we had a lot to catch up on! On our way home (ate at Pinocchio's in North Beach) the weather was cold, rainy, and very windy. Kris and I were both concerned the race was going to be horrible, but when we woke up and walked outside (at 5 am) it was warm, misty, and as calm as could be - this was huge relief!
The race was awesome! The weather turned out to be perfect, though Kris' photos of the Golden gate Bridge while he was running over it had the fog covering most of it, but other than that, it was great. I used the 4 hours alone to get Starbucks at the Embarcadero, go back to the hotel for breakfast, and then I walked up Columbus Ave. to Fisherman's wharf, then all the way back down to the Embarcadero where the finish line was located. There was a tone of free samples of goodies near there from all the organic sponsors, so I had fun going through all of that too. Kris did great even through the hills, and finished in 3:55! After the finish, we went back to the hotel, checked out walked back to the BART station, and headed back to Fairfield! It was a quick 24 hours, but so much fun.
When we arrived, we had a cookout with my mom's great friends Chuck & Kathy, and Uncle Scott came to join. Kar and Max had a great time and didn't even notice we were gone! The next day we drove to the Bay Area Children's discovery museum and Muir Woods to see the giant Redwoods. Karmann had her first "professional" hair cut, and we also went swimming and just relaxed until we headed on to part two - Seattle, Washington.
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