Adventure’s in San Francisco with Leland and Daddy

Hello Maddy,

Well this weekend Leland and I decided to go to San Francisco for an adventure. It turned out to be quite an adventure as you will see. We drove in my shiny red car to the BART station in South San Francisco where we jumped onto a train to the city.

When we got to the downtown area we looked for a Starbucks to have a coffee. Turns out there are Starbucks on every corner. Inside as I got in line to order a coffee, Leland played with his Nintendo DS. Yes, it’s just like the one you have. When he heard that I had bought a Nintendo DS for you, well you know Leland he had to get one too. He even used his own money that he gets from his job at Arby’s. He was jealous and also bought a Super Mario Bros just like you’re too.

Having walked a bit of a distance we found the tunnel that leads to Chinatown. Leland was already complaining about starving, so I told him we would get some Chinese food.

Inside Chinatown just about every other place is a Chinese food place. I had no idea where to eat. I figured there were two choices one would be great Chinese food or something that would make us sick to our stomachs. After a while of walking and Leland complaining we stumbled into a Chinese lady touting the greatness of the food just inside and up the stair to the restaurant. I decided to take a chance.

The food was great. These Chinese people would roll up a cart of food and we could choose from many different dishes. Taking care to control the amount of food as to not over eat and bust my budget. We did well just fine.

Leaving the restaurant I found this statue of some monkeys sitting on a bench. Well I had to take some pictures.

From Chinatown we jumped onto a bus and headed to Golden Gate Park. It was fun there. There lot s of statues to take pictures with. There were these two guys looking up and lion with a human head.

At the park we wanted to go to the Japanese Tea Gardens. When we arrived I had no cash on me only my credit cards. I remembered that the last hour you could get in free. So we waited and at 4 o’clock the doors open for all those cheapskates like Leland and I to enjoy the last hour. You bet I got my money’s worth. I shoot a ton of pictures. It’s really silly because the best times to take pictures are early in the morning and late in the afternoon.

Inside Leland and I shoot some crazy pictures. Here you can see me jumping in the air in front of a Pagoda.

I took some more pictures of the lions with human head. Leland made his way into one of them. Good job Leland.

We jumped onto a bus once again and once again Leland was complaining about the pain in his stomach as if he were dying from lack of food. I told him to chill out we’ll get some food later. Later turned into later and later.

Soon I was hungry too so we found another place to eat. After eating we left on the BART and headed home.

I hope you have enjoyed our little adventure.

I love you Maddy,

Daddy

Dear Maddy,

I have decided to make a special blog for you. A blog is like a letter in the mail except this one is on the computer. I will update this blog now and then when something happens and/or I have pictures to show you.

This first blog is about Leland and me going to the beach.

It was Saturday and I was watching Leland. Around 6:00 PM I asked Leland what he wanted to do. He said, “I don’t know. What do you want to do?”

It had already been a hot day so I said, “Let’s go to the beach!”

Leland said, “Okay!” Off we went to the beach.

I could see that we had some time before the sunset so when we got to Santa Cruz I decided to head north a little bit. I found a nice little beach and we stopped. Gathering all our stuff, mostly my camera equipment, we headed for the beach. There lots of sand dunes. I wanted to get a picture on the tallest one. When we got there is was windy, so windy it blew my hat off. Luckily for me it didn’t go very far.

Remember the time when you and I were at the beach in Santa Barbara? We walked out to the end of the pier and there were these great big birds. They were called pelicans. Well while we were up on the top of the dune hill some pelicans flew over. There were a lot of them. Some birds fly south for the winter because it is usually warmer in the south. There birds were going north to return for the summer. There were a few nice pictures here but it was way too windy to stay so we headed down to the beach.

On both side of this small beach there were large cliffs. Leland found a large wood pile in the shape of a tee pee. While I was shooting pictures Leland ducked away behind this wood pile tee pee. The wind was wild down here on the beach. Leland took his long sleeved shirt and wrapped it around his head. He really looked silly. He kept saying how cold and windy it was but I thought it was okay.

Leland wanted to carve his name into a piece of wood in the tee pee.

I had lots of time to shoot this great sunset. And when I was finished I started to take pictures of Leland. Then I asked him to take some pictures of me. It was fun I jumped in the air pretended to be off balance and then tried to do cart wheels. One time I fell in the sand.

Leland gave the camera back and I shot some more pictures. He was pretty good and could almost do a hand stand. He jumped around and tried to do a cart wheel too. We had lots of fun.

I hope you have enjoyed my blog for you. Come back soon to find a new story just for you.

Love,
Daddy