San Francisco Trip Recap, Friday 10/20/2006, Part 2

After the Exploratorium, we walked over to Crissy Field where we walked on the beach and enjoyed a great view of the Golden Gate Bridge.

(I should mention here that the temperatures in SF while we were there were very warm, in the 70s and 80s. We hadn't expected those highs and so hadn't packed shorts for the kids, though it turns out they would have been appropriate, but thankfully had a few short-sleeved shirts. That afternoon there were lots of people walking around and even quite a few people lying on the beach in bathing suits.)

The sun was bright and the kids didn't feel like posing for the camera. They did their best but they mostly just wanted to poke around in the sand.






I don't know what came over me but I asked the kids if they wanted to walk a little bit in the water. So we took off our shoes, rolled up our pants and dipped our feet in San Francisco Bay. Nora, who is sensitive to cold, cried right away and wanted to get out.

While I was bringing her back to Braman (who had sensibly kept his sneakers on), Larsson ventured further into the water and got the bottom of his pants wet. He looked cute and it was scenic with the Golden Gate Bridge in the background so I went to get the camera to take his picture. Turns out that wasn't such a great idea because, while I was doing that, Larsson went a little further out, and, not being familiar with waves and how how the land can slope down, got soaked up to the top of his thighs and almost lost his balance and fell in.

Here we are before it all went wrong:


Here is Larsson on his way to get soaked:


And here he is all wet and sandy:


Of course, this was the one time we forgot to pack extra outfits for the kids so Braman wrung out Larsson's pants, Larsson put them back on and, at about 3pm, we finally began paper shopping.