San Francisco Day 4: California Academy of Sciences, Presidio

In the morning we hit the California Academy of Sciences which has an aquarium, planetarium, rain forest and natural history museum all inside. It was pretty cool to see it all and if we take the girls back this is one place they would love to go. In the rain forest they had birds and butterflies flying everywhere and some would just land right on you. After we spent a few hours there, we headed over to the Presidio which is just at the foot of the Golden Gate Bridge. It was an old fort that Dave wanted to see and despite it being extremely windy that afternoon, we still managed to snap a few photos. I didn't read many of the signs so I'm sure Dave got more out of it than I did but it was still cool to see all the cannons and ammo they had there.

It was so windy up on top and if we had the girls with us, Katelyn would've for sure fallen in the ocean from the third story!!
Dave's just trying to figure out how to get his hands on one of these!!

One thing I loved about the city is there were walking trails everywhere, winding and lined with trees so there were always people biking, running, and walking anytime of the day. I could so live there. For a week. Until the money ran out!! So for now, I'll just have to visit instead.

On our last day we went back into the city and went to the Museum of Modern Art, which my mom would be so proud. I think we may have spent a total of an hour there and then left to hit Union Square (which is much more our comfort zone), to do some last minute shopping and lunch before it was time to head for home. We went into a 4 story William-Sonoma which was absolutely amazing and had a fabulous lunch at the Cheesecake Factory. And so ends our San Francisco tour. We had such a wonderful, relaxing trip that we might opt for leaving the kids on all our vacations now!!

A huge thanks goes out to Kimber for watching our girls and hopefully they weren't too horrible for you. Although I was so pleased to hear her say that she would be willing and wants to swap kids for vacation again. Where are we going next?!