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It's Your Favorite... Really?
OK. So my brother-in-law graduated from the California College of the Arts in San Francisco Mother's Day weekend and the family all went down for the ceremony and after-party. We work way too hard on a regular basis and live for short weekend getaways, so we decided to splure on a nice hotel and make a weekend out of it to celebrate my day. We stayed in a corner suite on the 27th floor of the Westin Saint Francis right on Union Square, and to the kids delight, right across the street from the Disney Store (which is closing for good - and we spent WAY TOO MUCH on discounted goodies!). For me, just getting some sleep is the absolutely heavenly hotel bed was fabulous - I own my own biz and tend to work most of the time in the middle of the night. The ceremony was 2 hours or so and everyone would hate us if we tried to make the kids sit through that, so I walked around SF with them, while my husband went to the ceremony. We walked and walked and walked. We saw demonstrators in the street, an Indian celebration procession with horses and beautiful outfits and music, we rode a lot of elevators and explored big buildings, we shopped some and ate chocolate, and we played at the metreon and the fountains at Yerba Buena gardens ... It was so relaxing to have nowhere to be. The next day we went to the Exploratorium and walked around the marina district ... When we jumped in the car to drive home, Natalie told us something that surprised both myself and my husband... "Mom, this is my favorite vacation. When can we come back? Did you write down our room number, I want the same one." Wow, we thought. Not only was this the shorest vacation we have taken recently, it was the least kid-oriented ... and it was her favorite. When we asked her why it was her favorite - more than Disneyland, more than Bodega Bay or Monterey, more than Calaveras Big Trees, more than Disneyland? Her response was interesting ... "Well, nothing is better than Disneyland Mom... But this was fun because I could see everything from our room and the big buildings were really cool!" So I guess we're in for another weekend in SF... Hey, at least we don't have to fly! 0 comments from 0 users
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