Last week in Pleasanton

I am a little late in writing this post.We have been out of Pleasanton for 2 weeks now but we have been super busy moving. We have not moved to Portland yet but we are really close. We took a detour to Hawaii and now Tim is finishing working in Southern California to finish out the summer. It has been a busy month but a really fun one too. For our last week in Pleasanton we finally went to San Francisco and to the Oakland temple. It was my first time going to this temple and I was really excited because I hadn't been in a long time. When I was younger I would go there for baptisms. This is the temple that my parents were sealed in so I was really excited! It was very pretty. After we were done with our session we wanted to take a picture and I wanted the whole temple to be in the picture so I jimmy-rigged a place for me to use the timer on my camera, and it was kinda difficult. Let's just say it involved Tim's wallet and our keys. Well after I finally found the right angle these two guys come up and ask if they can take it for us, I thought YAY now it will actually be a good picture. Ugh! I thought wrong, before they even tried to take the picture they decided the sun was in the wrong spot and it would not turn out. They wouldn't even attempt the picture! It was really annoying and a waste of our time, I mean what do they know really? So then we proceeded to wait for them to finally walk away so I could re-set up my contraption. I got it at the perfect angle again when this nice woman came and asked if she could take our picture and she took a really good one...the first time! I had to really focus on not giving my annoyed smile, I do this more often than I realize and it always ruins the picture.


On our last Sunday we finally went into San Francisco, we were living so close to the city but we just never had time to go. Basically we just drove around to all the main touristy spots. We didn't have a lot of time and we really didn't want to have to find parking on a weekend. We drove through china
town then Lombard street. of course it was crowded and it was really intimidating having to stop and go on such a steep hill. After that we went to the golden gate bridge. I read online that there is this light house not too far away, where you could get really good pictures of the bridge so we went there and it was really pretty but since there was fog it was hard to see the bridge. It was definitely a fun trip. I will have more posts coming but I forgot my camera in Hawaii and I'm waiting for it to come in the mail so I'll write more once I get that...hopefully it comes soon, blast you Matsumoto shave ice!!!