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San Francisco

Mary and i went San Francisco for the 4th. We stayed with her brother Rudy and his fiance' Zaynup. (i don't remember how to spell it, it is something like that, she is from Turkey) On the first day the girls went shopping for clothes for mary to teach in, and Rudy and i headed down to Golden Gate park and hung around at the Museum/Planetarium/Aquarium thing. They had a really cool skulls exhibit, and some neat shacker tables where you could try to build lego buildings to survive an earthquake. All the fathers had taken them over and the kids were off doing something else. We picked up the girls a couple of hours later and headed over to watch the fireworks. It seemed like everybody in San Fran was heading out, which was perfect for us. Rudy works at Fort Mason as the Director of Special Events and Uses. (gives permits for weddings and movies and stuff) We watched the fireworks from the Officers Club lawn, which overlooks the launch area, it was really cool. You could see two other fireworks shows from other parts of the bay. The next day we went up to Point Reyes and checked out the light house. It was super windy and pretty cold. We then went down to Point Bonita and Stenson Beach, both of those places were pretty nice. We then headed into town and ate at the Stinking Rose. Everything there has tons of garlic and it was super good, i recommend it highly. We then checked out a couple of bookstores and headed home. The final day we just hung out around the house until Fred (mary's other brother) showed up and we had a turkish lunch. It was also really good. We then headed home. It was cool though because these hells angels flew past us around Sacramento and we caught up with them again where the CHP had pulled them over around Auburn, but they caught up with us again around Verdi.

Also, i added a bunch of pictures to the picture gallery, moved some around, changed the format a little, and deleted a couple, so if anybody has any suggestions on how to improve it, i would love to hear them