So we decided to go to Vegas for one day and then drive up to San Francisco for 2 days and then drive home.
Of course a couple days before we were supposed to leave Matthew got sick. He had the flu. Poor kid was miserable. My mom is such a trooper for staying with the kids for 5 days.
We left Sunday morning and got to Vegas around 4. We checked in, stayed at the Hard Rock Hotel. We drove around the strip and went over to the outlet mall. We were going to find somewhere to eat on the strip but we couldn't figure out where to park. We chose to eat at The Hard Rock Cafe. It was really good.
Our room was really nice. I've never stayed at a hotel like that. They had this weird sensor thing where if you pick up the nuts or water they automatically charge your account for them after 30 seconds. WTF!? I picked up practically everything before I read the brochure that explained that. Berto had to call the front desk to make sure we didn't get charged for anything and luckily I put everything down in time and didn't get charged!
The next day we drove up to San Francisco.... THE LONGEST MOST BORING DRIVE EVER!!!
We were going crazy!
We finally got there and checked in to the hotel. I was a little disappointed because we paid for the upgraded room so we would be on one of the top 3 floors but apparently the hotel is under renovations on the top 11 floors. So we should have been on floors 25,26, OR 27 but we were put on floor 16.
We still had a pretty nice view but I was hoping for something better. The first night we were there I thought it would be a good idea to walk to the BART station and take the train to Fisherman's wharf. Holy cow that was the scariest thing we've ever done!!
First off, NEVER walk around that town at night if you don't know where you're going and second of all, that train system is so dang confusing!!!
We were lucky that someone was willing to help us. We got on the train and made it to Embarcadero but by the time we got off that train I had NO idea where to go from there to get to Fisherman's Wharf. I was scared and cold so we waved a cab to take us back to the hotel.
OMG they gave us the cabbie from hell. This man drove like a maniac!! I knew it was bad when Berto was digging his nails into my leg. This guy took the steep hills at like 40 and almost ran people over. I couldn't get out of the cab fast enough. NEVER NEVER take a cab unless its a last resort. Seriously.
We ended up eating a pizza at the hotel because after that disaster of an evening we didn't want to walk anywhere else.
The next day we went to Fisherman's Wharf. We bought some bread at the Boudin Factory (Yummy). Got a couple T-shirts on the pier, saw the sea lions and Alcatraz and decided we were ready to go to the Walt Disney Family Museum.
We drive up to this beautiful building and I'm just so excited because I've been wanting to go for so long.....
CLOSED
Are you serious??
Apparently the museum is closed every Tuesday. My dream was crushed.
So we decided to go the Point Reyes because its one of my most favorite places ever.
We drive like 50 miles and guess what?
CLOSED
The freaking lighthouse is closed Tuesdays and Wednesdays!
OMG everything I wanted to do is not working out.
Another dream crushed.
While we were on the beach we had zero service. When we were on our way back I had this feeling my mom was trying to get a hold of us so as soon as we got service I had Berto call her.
Guess what now?
Kourtney has the flu too and my mom has to go pick up Tamiflu at the Pharmacy and of all the things I left her I forgot to leave our pharmacy card. UGH!
ANOTHER dream crushed! I was hoping and praying Miss K wouldn't get this hellish flu that's going around.
Luckily Berto called the pharmacy and it all worked out so my mom got the medicine. Poor baby girl. My kids were so miserable and we felt so bad that we were on vacation and they were home.
We still had fun despite all the mishaps.
Our second night in San Francisco we just relaxed at the hotel. We had dinner down the street at a place I found on Groupon called Mel's Drive in. And the rest of the night we stayed in. Its probably good we did because it rained all the rest of the night. It was nice watching the rain and people watching from the hotel. I enjoyed myself.
At the last minute we decided we didn't want to drive straight from San Francisco to Arizona so we drove back to Las Vegas for one more night.
We stayed at The Luxor (the pyramid hotel).
It wasn't our favorite. It was nice but it was old. I wouldn't stay there again though.
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| Freezing at the hotel |
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| Point Reyes |
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| Point reyes |
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| Golden Gate Bridge |
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| Fisherman's Wharf |
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| Fisherman's Wharf |
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| Fisherman's Wharf |
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| Relaxing |
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| Our View in San Francisco |
We got up early on Thursday and drove home.
All in all we had a really nice time away. We really really needed it.
A BIG thank you to my mom for being a super hero and taking care of my sick babies!!
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| View from the Luxor |
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| View from outside our room inside the Luxor |
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