To say goodbye. Or maybe just "See ya later" since we will for sure be back.

As always, we learned things:

1. Pack scissors or toe nail clippers.

2. No matter how old your child, always take extra clothing when you leave the hotel - even if he insists that he will NOT be cold. He will be cold.

3. Don't forget bandaids. I ALWAYS forget bandaids. It's ridiculous.

We miss home. We miss our doggies. We miss our house. But we had a fun time and we will count down until our next trip together.

Today was our last full day, and we headed out to Golden Gate park for awhile. It's a huge park in the middle of the city, and it's filled with nature trails, waterfalls, museums, etc. Jake skated through the park, and there were lots of dogs - even some awesome ones who didn't even need to be on a leash, they just ran behind their owners. Our dogs could learn from them.

When we were at Golden Gate park in August, I remember watching all the skateboarders on the stage and telling Jacob that someday I was going to take my skateboarding son (I never doubted that I would have a son who skateboarded) to that same park to skateboard. Little did I know, that time would come just 8 months later. I remembered that time when I was watching my own son skating on the stage -

Isn't that awesome? I'm definitely a lucky one.

Clearly that's what we enforce in this family...

Last time we were in SF, we went to the Castro with my dad. You can find that blog here, from August. It was awkward, to say the least.

This time we had Jake. I wanted to visit a store that contributed 85% of it's profits to AIDS research. Seems harmless right? Well, right next to that store was a sex shop - with a sign in the window that was advertising a porn star named Dick Wadz. The sign said: "Cum in here, we do!" Nice.

Then we went to the store. Inside was a book called "Penis Pokey". You were supposed to insert your penis (if you have one) in the hole and you played different characters in the book.

Then off to a book store...filled with porn and books on giving oral sex. We did meet a cute doggie named Lucas though. Even the local bakery had pictures of naked men on the walls. Nice family environment for sure.

No pics, sorry. We should have, since we came in contact with some funny signs - like the art gallery called Rock Hard. But no, none. Sorry people.

It was a foggy day, so I'm sorry that they aren't stupendous shots.

View from Coit Tower

Another view. Quite awesome huh?

One more.

We saw this guy at the last Catholic Church. What is he??? I've never seen one in real life, and we aren't Catholic so we keep calling him a friar. lol