We spent the morning touring and enjoying some sites with Karen’s cousins Brad and Jessica and Jessica’s husband, Jeff. We started at the dahlia garden in the Golden Gate Park and then walked over to the Academy of Sciences, which is located within the park. They have an interesting exhibit about the movement of the earth’s plates, which discusses the evolution of ostriches and the frequent experiences of earthquakes on the west coast. Kelsey and Lindsey loved seeing the live baby ostriches on display. The Academy also had a really neat, fully enclosed rainforest exhibit with a number of butterflies and birds flying around. To keep them in you have to enter the exhibit through an air lock.
For lunch we satisfied our desire for sourdough bread by traveling down to Fisherman’s Wharf to have lunch at the Boudin Bakery. The Boudin Bakery has been making sourdough bread since 1849 and is still baking sourdough bread off of the same “mother dough” starter. The bread was delicious. We spent some time after our lunch touring the Boudin museum and bakery.
From the wharf we bid farewell to San Francisco and headed down the coast on route 1. Unfortunately much of the coast line had the summer fog, but we did see some amazing views. We traveled to Santa Cruz to meet up with some family friends, Jon and Tandy, who live there. We met them for dinner on the Santa Cruz wharf and then walked the boardwalk. While we walked we could hear the summer boardwalk concert featuring two ‘80’s groups: Animotion and Flock of Seagulls. Although the swings ride closed before we got there, Kelsey and Lindsey enjoyed a couple of other rides.
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