Day Eight: 100 years love in Stanford

After we cleaned up Condo in the morning, we would meet dad's college buddy at noon right before our flight time. There was two hours window we visited famous Stanford University campus.

It is impressive. Pretty much raise the bar how grand a college campus could be. Dad loved this pictures. It is taken in front of a library. He just wish Ray and I love each other for 100 years.

Day Seven: If your time is tight, do what we did

We still had four places to go in our city pass. Only one and half days left and the last half has been planned by dad.

Here was what we did. 10:00AM-3:30PM. Exploratorium was the first as it opens first and it the furthest from where we stayed. We spent almost five hours there and didn't feel we had enough. This was the place we highly recommended to everyone interested in science and technology. Dad was tricked by Bernouli phenomena as he knew very little about aerodynamics. One word for Exploratorium: Cool. It is a good match to silicon valley.

3:30PM-4:00PM. Then we got into car. Ray and I felt into sleep right away. Dad drove us to Museum of Modern Arts (MOMA), as it is the one close earliest. I woke up when we got there and Ray kept sleeping. He was put into stroller. 4:30PM-5:40PM. Then we had our one hour super-quick tour of MOMA before it was closed. Ray woke up and we all had some fruits outside MOMA. 5:40PM-6:30PM We went back to our condo as mom needs to get deposit from manager before weekend.

6:30PM-8:00PM Then dad drove us to Fisherman's wharf as the aquarium of bay was there. We saw gorgious golden jellyfish which we never saw in other aquariums. And we were allowed to touch a little shark. Scary? This was not a large aquarium but it did has a few things that would wow you.

8:00PM-10:00PM taste SF world famous cable car. Even at 8:00PM, we still waited for 40 minutes and the chilly wind from the bay ocean drove many people nuts that they didn't exactly follow the line and show courtesy to children and women. With Ray and I who need to be taken care and protected, dad could say more than: "Hey, I have already taken cable car."

Then finally we took a stop at a Pizza store, who claimed the best pizza in SF to have our dinner. Before that, we picniced everywhere with our whole food supply.

It was definitely a crazy day, which reminded dad his college days that the exam would be the next day but he hadn't quite finish reading the fourth chapter of the required ten chapters study. This time he passed again.

Day Six: City pass started

California academy of science was the first stop of our city pass, which has a small aqurium, a small rain forrest, an Africa animal show, .... A special exhibition presented global warming issue. California seemed pretty concerned about environment. Look at the Hall in picture, the top sun shade retractable. The temperature sensor in the hall commanded shade to open or close. Pretty green and pretty cool.

One thing we gonna mention is government budgeting is also very important. Go green is good but it is gonna be cost effective. Otherwise dollar is getting less and less green.

Then we took bay cruise before we had our last stop at the Harbor. One hour bay cruise was rough. But we did succeed pushing mom to buy things we liked in the boat food stand.

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Day two: Fisherman's wharf

Our condo is on third floor with a large balcony. It is fun to see a dynamic city from this angle. It is a little chilly in the morning even Auntie told us it was the warmest day in the past two months. Look at what we were dressed. This is San Francisco.

SF trip day one: Cruise into Chinatown and Z&Y

It took us two hours to get our car in AVIS. Good business! First stop was Chinatown as it was dinner time when we got SF. Auntie brought us to Z&Y, an authentic Sichuan cousine discovered by her in hundreds of Chinese restaurants in Chinatown. Haha, it turned out to be our most frequently visited restaurant during our last visit of SF. It is located at Jackson and Grant intersection. Focusing on their food, not service, bathroom sanity or anything else, then you will be pretty satisfied.

Look at Ray, he was in a perfect mood.

Tony's head and Mom's nose, the winner is ...

Tony was cuddling with dad. Mom was still sleeping on the side. Suddenly, Tony pushed his legs hard while he was standing on dad's chest. Then Tony felt down to mom. Tony's head bumped on mom's nose.
Tony didn't feel a thing. Mom was completely in bad shape. She jumped up and ran into bath room with a scary long scream. We all got scared. Then mom's nose started bleeding bad.
Not long ago, dad's tongue lost to Ray's head and it took three weeks for his tongue to feel perfectly all right to have dinner.
And today it was mom's bad luck.
You just can't be more careful dealing with two energetic boys.

How we dealt with a bug