San Francisco Adventure

Last weekend, my family and I went to San Francisco. I only needed to go to the de Young Museum to do my art review for art history class, however, I figured we might as well go to the Hagiwara Tea Garden while we were at it since the Japanese garden is right next door to the de Young. I really wanted to see the Post-Impressionist Exhibition that the de Young was having. From now until January, the de Young is showing the Impressionism collection that is on loan from the Musee d'Orsay in Paris, France. The de Young is the ONLY museum in North America to exhibit this collection and when January comes, the paintings of Van Gogh, Cezanne, Gauguin, and many other Post-Impressionist artists will be going back to Paris, where they will probably remain forever, without leaving as a large group again.
However, that Saturday that I went to San Francisco also coincided with Fleet Week! So I opted for Fleet Week instead of the Post-Impressionism exhibition since I still have December to go see the exhibition, while Fleet Week is just for the weekend (well...of this year, anyways =]
I must point out, traffic in San Francisco is terribly on regular days, but during the time when the city hosts Fleet Week...well, traffic is insane. I spent half an hour on the same street and, from my GPS, only drove 3/4 of a mile. Walkers beat us!
So, on the way to Golden Gate Park, I saw a poster on the back of the bus and I made my sister take a picture of it. Many of you will appreciate the humor.

Yup...be proud. Hilarious. =] When I saw it, I thought of Ariel* and our midnight conversations to distract us from the grueling world of chemistry/physics/biology.











We didn't actually get to do down to the Marina to see the Blue Angels fly since as I've said, traffic was insane-bumper to bumper insane. And I wasn't too enthusiastic about parking (or lack of) either. So I just drove around aimlessly. Many other drivers were driving around aimlessly as well. I saw this one car with its emergency lights on and as we passed it, we found that the driver was gone. So I'm guessing soooomeone decided to ditch his car, engine running, doors open, to go and take snapshots. The most amusing and probably most efficient and cleverest as well were the people on their roof. Best. Front. Seats. Ever.

No traffic.
Top view.
Close up.
BBQ!












And of course, thanks to my darling sister, we got some awesome shots of the Blue Angels flying across the amazingly clear blue sky.

The view is amazing! The hill I was driving up...x.x not so.

WHEEEEEEE!

Crossing Tip #11: Navigator systems don't find a way to avoid traffic...fathers with a map find a way to avoid traffic.