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We just got back from another epic weekend in San Francisco visiting Ian, Yee Yee and Uncle Kevin. The girls were SO excited about the visit and it did not disappoint!

Flying out to Oakland was pretty uneventful. Scott got upgraded to first class again so I enjoyed my time with the munchkins back in cattle class. This was the first time Nora got a seat all to herself without a car seat buckled in and she was a little squirmy but big sister Evie set a great example and she followed suit.



First order of business  when we landed was to get lunch! What better place than to go to In N Out?! The sun was shining so we had a nice lunch outside and us Seattle-lites loved sitting in that warm sunshine! As for the burgers, I was worried Evie and Nora wouldn't like all the stuff on their burgers so got them plain ones. Turns out, they liked mine better and Evie ended up gobbling the rest of my cheese burger-with-everything while I ate hers.


That evening, we crammed int the car and made our way to Tera Firma Farms, where they were having their annual Halloween pumpkins-on-pikes bash.

all smiles from the Peanut Gallery

So much to do at Tera Firma Farms!

pillow fights in the forefront, pumpkins in the background.

a sea of pumpkins!

Way's Starry-eyed pumpkin face

Spoooooooky!
Family portrait

Hanley family portrait

Boogey-ing to the band


The next day, we headed into San Francisco to check out the Exploratorium. What a great museum! It's a  museum that's all about science so EVERY exhibit was somehow interactive and taught concepts about why the world works the way it does. The theory piece was lost of the kids, but all of us (adults too!) had a fun time playing around in the museum.

Testing, testing, 1, 2, 3

Nora causing a whirlpool.

BIG tree

Looking down at one of the museum rooms.

And then, finally, Halloween day arrived! When Nora woke up I told her "Today is Halloween!" and her face immediately lit up with a smile and she exclaimed "I get candy!". It was too cute! That girl has a serious sweet tooth. Anyway, we took the kids in the morning to a play gym to run off some energy, and then got to work on carving some pumpkins.

Guess which one was designed by a boy, and which one by a girl?
 After pumpkin carving, we donned our costumes and headed over to Nana and Papa's house. Their neighborhood gets all tricked out for Halloween so it was a treat to be able to join them again to celebrate this year. Unfortunately, us Seattlelites must have brought the rain down south with us because the skies opened up and it poured down on us when we went out trick or treating! The kids didn't seem to enjoy trick or treating as much this year becuase of that, and after about an hour or so, we headed back to the house. An hour still meant PLENTY of candy though so no one was disappointed in the loot.


A policeman, cheetah and Princess Sofia

Her favorite part of the costume were these face stickers.
She got LOTS of compliments on them!

Setting up at Nana and Papa's house

The next day, we sadly hugged Ian, Yee Yee and Uncle Kevin goodbye and headed to SFO but our adventure hadn't ended yet. Guess what we found in Nora's shoe when she took them off on the plane? A baby lizard!!! This must have been the little guy who was lurking in the garage the day before. It is both funny and gross to me that Nora didn't seem to even notice that this was in her shoe all day. We didn't hear her complain at all during the day! She didn't seem to realize when he fell out of her shoe either. Evie and I both shrieked though and made quite a commotion. YUCK! oh well, it was a memorable end to a very fun and memorable weekend!

Lizzie the lizard, after she fell out of Nora's shoe on the plane.

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  1. WNovember 4, 2016 at 11:16 PM

    We had so much fun having you guys visit again for Halloween! I'm glad you all had fun despite the rain. The lizard story is going down into the history books...we'll be talking about that for years to come!

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