Happy Anniversary and a trip

Today I finally have a little more time to tell you about our

great trip to San Francisco...
 

 

Mr. B and I celebrated our 40th anniversary this year
and we just let it slip by without any fan fare.
Well, the more I kept thinking about it...
I decided to surprise my mr. with tickets to California
for our anniversary and Christmas.
 Of course this would be very difficult and that is where
daughter knit and pearl came in and volunteered to do all the planning...
Really this girl should have been a travel agent -
if there was a good deal to be had...she found it for me.
All I had to do was hop on-line and okay things and provide payment.

We flew out on Christmas Eve and headed to San Francisco...
where we rented an apartment in this fantastic home for 9 days.



 

 

 

The apartment was located in Point Richmond...

 

We had this view of the bay from our balcony during the day...

 



and a view of the San Francisco skyline at night...

 

 



We rented a car and saw some pretty spectacular sights.

Sonoma and Napa Valley...
 

 

 

 

I can't wait to share some of the wine and cheese we bought here.
 

We received tickets to Alcatraz Island from our daughter and son-in -law...

 

Our son and family gave us tickets to see our final tour of Hearst's Castle

near San Simeon... 

 

 

We took our first tour of the castle in 1974...

 had our second tour with our two kids in 1988...

and now our final tour in 2012.

 

We drove the coastline between San Simeon and San Francisco

with stops in beautiful Carmel by the Sea and Monterey...

 

Of course we saw lots of San Francisco...

  

 

 

 

 

 

It was a wonderful trip to celebrate 40 wonderful years of being married to this guy...

 

 

b