One of the presents that the girls got for Christmas was an ice cream maker that you need to turn by hand (thank you Dad!) The girls said they wanted to start an ice cream business when we visited a lovely gelato shop in San Francisco and so this was the start of their business! … Continue reading »
We drove to San Antonio on Friday afternoon for the weekend. It’s one of the oldest cities in Texas and also one that gets the most visitors every year. It is very easy to see why. We drove into the hotel and the city looks just like most of the Texan cities we’ve visited – … Continue reading »
I’m a big fan of technology for children. Both girls can navigate around the CBeebies website for all the games and clips of their favourite programmes. They both have accounts with Reading Eggs which is a fun way to practise letters and reading and the Big One has an equivalent account with Maths Whizz which … Continue reading »
We picked up a local newspaper in the hotel in Cambria before we left as there was a picture of a dead whale that had been washed ashore. Despite the warnings in the paper that it smelt a bit, we drove the 2 miles up the coast to San Simeon to find it. It did … Continue reading »
It was a long drive to Yosemite from San Francisco but the girls were very happy to find that we had a DVD player in the hire car (it’s a massive truck thing, with enough room for us all to comfortably live in for the rest of the holiday!) We’ve so far managed to avoid … Continue reading »
You may already have the feeling that we really like San Francisco. I have a sneaky feeling that my lovely husband has us here sussing out whether we’d like it enough to live here – there’s lots of work for engineers and he already has all the contacts… Anyway, it would not be a bad … Continue reading »
Just a quick post with a couple of pictures as I’m supposed to be participating in a teleconference right now… (It’s 4am here!) Yesterday we went to a massive farmers market in the Ferry Building, right on the Bay front. The food was fantastic and I just wanted to share a picture of the girls … Continue reading »
We arrived on Saturday afternoon to beautiful sunshine and clear blue skies. We’re staying in the lovely Hotel Drisco, in a beautiful residential part of the city. To give you a feeling for the area, Warren Buffet lives around the corner in a magnificent house (although I don’t think it’s his main residence…) Driving from … Continue reading »
Another flight today with my lovely husband and the girls. We didn’t get off to a very good start as the girls kept me awake for most of the night and then we had to get up early to be on the 9am flight to San Francisco. Once at the airport, the check in process … Continue reading »
