San Francisco Trip and more! :)

We decided to go to San Francisco for our anniversary weekend while we were still living out in California. I can't believe we have lived here off and on for 3 years and have never been there! Maybe the 7 hour drive has a lot to do with it...



Jason was amazed that he could watch Toy Story in the car! :)



The drive to San Francisco is about 7 hours from our apartment in Oceanside. The day we left was a stressful one! Ben has been going through craziness to get out of the military and Friday had to go through even more.. we were hoping to leave earlier than we did, but of course that didn't happen. We left around 5ish, which was a horrible idea, especially since it was Friday and time that everyone was getting off work. We were stuck in Los Angeles for about 2 hours! Jason did great with the ride, we strapped the portable DVD player to the headrest for the first time and he didn't know what to think of it! He didn't sleep much in the car, which really surprised me! We didn't end up getting to San Francisco until 2:50 am. It was insane.

We got to our hotel and set our alarm for 6:05 and who knows what time we ended up falling asleep. We were definitely tired! We ate breakfast at the hotel and Jason wanted to act like a little adult and sit and do everything other adults were doing, it was super cute. He is such a social kid and will go and talk to anyone, which may not be a good thing at some point. We got in the car and headed to Pier 33 for our cruise to Alcatraz. Now as silly as this may sound, I have always been so fascinated with stuff like this. I LOVED going to Alcatraz, it was awesome. It was a little crowded of course, it is a big tourist spot, but it was everything I was hoping for. The only downside to it was Jason did not want to be good at all. He fussed the entire time, which I guess I would too if I was a 2 year old kid in an extremely dull looking place. It would have been much easier if Ben and I went alone, but that opportunity is hard to ever get, plus I love doing everything I can as a family.

The view of the San Francisco Bridge from Alcatraz was breathtaking. I took so many pictures of it! If you are ever in California and like this kind of stuff, it is all definitely a must see! I am so glad we finally went up there and got to experience it. After Alcatraz, we paid a ridiculous amount for crappy food.. which I wish we would have gone to Fisherman's Wharf and ate, but oh well. We walked around all of the shops at Pier 39 and they were all cute. We saw plenty of ridiculous street performers and I hate how pushy they can all get. I hate walking anywhere and having someone bug us, it is highly annoying. We ended up going to Ripley's Believe it or Not and it wasn't as interesting as it once had been to me when I went in South Carolina. Jason had fun, but not as much as I had hoped. There wasn't too much for Jason to do on this trip, which was a total bummer!

I loved Alcatraz, it was awesome to go see!

Golden Gate Bridge in the background!

Jason did not know what to think,lol!

All in all, it was a nice anniversary weekend. It would be nice to spend alone time with Ben and go to a romantic dinner or anything romantic, but sadly my husband is not a romantic person and is completely clueless about it all, but I still love him! :)  Tomorrow we will be married for 3 years, but it seems like it has been so much longer. I HATE HATE HATE that we got "married" at the stupid mayors office and on such a stupid holiday where EVERYONE is doing stuff. It just plain sucks...but now my whiny rant is over, because I will never be able to change any of it. Boo.

We are leaving for Indiana in 15 days which is so crazy. I am just ready to be there and have everything figured out and find a house. I am thankful that I have such wonderful parents that are going to let us stay with them while we find a house and figure everything out. Hopefully we wont have to stay there too long at all! Jason is going to love being back in Indiana and have all of my family and see them all the time. He is definitely going to miss Alex, but they will be back eventually too! Ben and I had a serious talk about how things are going to be once we move back..meaning with his family. He sadly has not interest to see some people, but I also feel the same way.. but that's a huge story for another day. I am just not ready for the awkwardness, but at the same time all the anger that I still have makes me not even care about how its really going to go....thankfully I don't let it get to me near as bad anymore. I just am tired of picking up every ones mess and dealing with it, so I have chose not to!