El Cid's Girls Are Here!

My brother is an accountant - the kind that works 120 hour weeks from January until April 15th. He often gets home between 1 and 2 in the morning just to get up in a few hours to do it all again. My sister-in-law is a trooper. Every year for her girls spring break she takes them on an adventure. This year the adventure was to visit us in San Francisco! And we are so glad they did.

The 4 girls arrived at 8:30 in the morning. We came back to our apartment, dropped off luggage, had breakfast and then were off. We dropped Roger and Sarah off at swim lessons while the rest of us headed to Lombard Street. The girls weren't content to just see it from the bottom - we hiked up all the stairs to look down from the top. (I didn't take pictures, but Valinda did)

We still had some time before swim lessons were over so we drove up to Coit Tower. The girls loved seeing the beautiful views while Will and I waited in line to park. It was a beautiful day and they could see a lot. Again, Valinda was the photographer.

After Coit Tower, we had a little more time before Sarah and Rog would be ready for us so I appeased my nieces by driving down Lombard Street. I have to say it's a little trickier driving my minivan down that street than are Alero, but we made it and the girls loved it. We continued driving down Lombard and picked up my two swimmers who were just finishing up.

Then off to the next. We dropped off Rog and William at the house and then headed to the Golden Gate Bridge. Why I didn't take out my camera, I'm not sure. But we had a great time walking part-way across the bridge. My 5-year-old niece wasn't so sure about walking over the water, but she made it too.

Since it was 70 degrees and perfect we headed down to Baker Beach for a picnic. I didn't think the girls would venture too far into the water, but I was wrong. Annie thought the waves were super cool and quickly got drenched. She spent quite a bit of time wrapped up in a towel. They all loved collecting rocks they found. (it's not really a seashell beach ...) All in all a fun afternoon in the sun. Oh I finally took my camera out of the bag - here are a few pics of my girls.