20 Weeks!

We celebrated the fact that we are 20 weeks along today!!  Halfway there... and hopefully more than halfway there when he comes a little early (I can dream, right?!).  We had a doctor's appointment this week and he confirmed that we are 100% having a boy!  Things are progressing really well and on June 7th we will have an ultrasound to make sure his organs are developing properly and everything else is looking good.

While I have been busy growing, I have also been busy accumulating some baby stuff.  We have purchased and set up the crib. Here is a picture of the crib we bought...

I love the crib! We found it at Wal-Mart for a really good price and it is super good quality.  It is set up in his room, just waiting!  The mattress and mattress pad are being shipped to the store and hopefully we will get those within the next week.  We have picked out his bedding set, which I absolutely love, and it is being shipped this week, too.

And we also have the car seat and stroller travel system sitting in a big box in his room.  My awesome cousin, Brittany, sent us a whole box full of adorable baby clothes from her boys.  I couldn't help looking at all the clothes and wondering what our little boy will look like wearing them!  We can't wait!  And an update on the name... we are still deciding on the first name, but we have decided that his middle name will be James.  So right now his name is ___?___ James Irwin.  :)

San Francisco: Day 4

Our last day in San Francisco was a Sunday and we decided to take a little half-day trip to the Muir Woods and Sausalito.  The tour picked us up from our hotel and we drove across the Golden Gate Bridge and up the windy roads to the national park.  We got to spend a little over an hour in the park and it was beautiful!  It is hard to take a picture to capture how big these trees really are!  It was a very sunny day outside, but there was always plenty of shade because the trees are so tall.  It was also nice to get out of the city and to breathe some fresh air.

 

Next, we took the bus to the little town of Sausalito.  We found a really good ice cream shop there and got some ice cream and walked around the town.  There was this guy out on the rocks by the bay that would stack the rocks on top of each other... it was pretty amazing!

I thoroughly enjoyed by chocolate peanut butter ice cream!!

And you can see San Francisco right across the bay!

After we got back to San Francisco we jumped on a short trolley ride to find a good place to eat.  We went to a great little pizza place... the pizza was sooo good!  We had the perfect Sunday and it was a great way to end our trip to San Francisco!



San Francisco: Day 3

Before we left for San Francisco, Rob found out that the library has volunteers that do free tours of places all around the city.  We decided to do a two hour tour of Chinatown... and it was a big cultural experience!

One of my favorite parts of the tour was we got to see how they make fortune cookies.  It was just in a tiny shop down an alley and the guy just took the flat cookie off the rack and folded it into the cookie!

We wanted to get some lunch in Chinatown, so our guide recommended this great little restaurant called San Sun.  It was very authentic (we were the only white people in the restaurant!) and really cheap, too.  We got some egg rolls as an appetizer and then some delicious Pho as the main meal.  Rob was loving life!

Our City Pass that we bought included free admission for the Exploratorium, which is like a huge warehouse full of science experiments you can try out.  It was really cool and we spent a lot more time there than we thought!  We tried out the "anti-gravity" mirror and got some funky pictures...

... and then we were so thirsty that we had to find a drinking fountain, but this is all we could find. :)  No matter how hard we tried, we just couldn't drink out of it!

We ended our day with some fish 'n chips at Fisherman's Wharf and then caught the trolley back to our hotel.  Another great day!

San Francisco: Day 2

Our second day in San Francisco started off with a tour of the USS Pampanito submarine.  Before we left we found a Groupon deal to tour this submarine and it was really cool!  We both decided, however, that we would never want to live on a submarine (especially with 70 other guys and no showers!).  Plus, Rob is a little too tall for everything on that sub.



Rob with the bunk beds, and the smile on his face that his bed at home is much bigger. :)

Next stop... the Boudin bakery! I absolutely love the sourdough bread they make there, and I was excited to eat my soup and bread bowl for lunch! We also took a few minutes to watch the bakers make their crab, turtle, and alligator shaped breads.

We also had to stop at Ghirardelli square for some chocolate!

And then we took the trolley to Lombard Street... the most crooked street in the world.  We watched the cars slowly make their way back and forth down the street and admired the nice (but pricey!) homes on the street.  We made our way down to the bottom, got a picture, and hiked our way back up just in time to catch the next trolley!

Our last event of the day was a Giants baseball game!  One more baseball field to check off our list!  We got to the stadium a little early to watch batting practice and to walk around the stadium.  We had no idea there was an actual slide inside the Coke bottle!  Unfortunately, you have to be under 48 inches to slide down, which Rob was pretty bummed about.  But then he got his hot dog and I got my Philly cheesesteak and we were happy as can be. :)

 The view from our seats!  We had a great view of everything, including the bay!

San Francisco: Day 1

After long hours of work and a tough busy season, Rob and I decided to treat ourselves to a weekend getaway to San Francisco!  We also figured it would be quite a while before we have another trip with just the two of us.  We flew out early Thursday morning and took the BART train and a trolley to get to our hotel (which was pretty eventful with suitcases! We are glad we just had two!).

Rob getting ready to ride the trolley! We didn't get a picture with the bum that

sang to us with his guitar for about 15 minutes while we waiting for the trolley to get there.  :)

After we checked into our hotel, we made our way over to the Ferry Building for some lunch.  Before we got to San Francisco, we bought the City Pass which included a Muni Pass that allowed us to take all the public transportation around the city (we highly recommend it!).  At the Ferry Building we had a delicious pulled pork sandwich... probably one of the best ones I have ever had!

 After lunch we went to the aquarium at Pier 39. We saw lots of fish, including Dory from Finding Nemo.  We were lucky and got there just in time to see them feed all the sharks in the shark tank!   And they had a little pool full of fish that you could touch... as you can see from the picture, touching fish isn't my favorite thing to do!

We topped off our day with a tour of Alcatraz!  We took a little cruise boat over to the island and the tour basically drops you off and lets you explore.  They have an audio tour of the prison that is really fun to listen to.  Rob was looking forward to being locked in a prison cell, but I guess they don't do that anymore.

 

I haven't quite figured out the mischievous look on Rob's face in this picture. :)

We had a really fun first day!  We made a stop at Pier 39 for dinner at a delicious seafood restaurant.  Of course, I got a burger instead of seafood, but Rob really enjoyed his fish!  The best part was the fresh Boudin sourdough bread they served with the meal (more about Boudin later!).  Our last adventure was getting back to our hotel... anyone who has taken public transportation in a big city can understand that sometimes you feel like me in this picture...

But we made it back safe and sound!  And got some sleep for our second big day in the city!