The Lewis Family Blog: Your First Big Trip to San Francisco

I call it your first big trip because, we've done a few short ones to LA and Fresno, but those were only 2 nights long, this one was 4 nights and further away.

So we decided to drive there, which allowed us to bring a lot more "baby things" like both of your strollers, the baby backpack for hiking and a little booster chair so that it would be more comfortable to feed you in the hotel room. All of these things we used! Babies certainly use a lot of things.

Jeromey and I managed to pack all of our things in one suitcase and for you we were bringing a ton of stuff! So we left our house at 10:30pm, thinking you would sleep most of the way there and that would make it easier on us and you. You did fall back asleep once we started driving, but after we hit a bump or a dip, you woke up and did not want to go back to sleep. We got tired of driving around 3:00 am and pulled off at the rest stop, where you still would not sleep! It took you another 45 mins to finally doze off, which is when I dozed off as well.

We woke up at 5:30 am and found out that your diaper leaked all the way through and you were sitting in wet pjs! Poor baby. I usually don't change you in the middle of the night, but I think it's because you were in your car seat the whole time... You did not enjoy being changed in the cold!

We finally got back on the road and were in San Francisco at 9:30 am. Yay! I had called in an hour beforehand to see if they can have our room ready for us and check in early. Luckily for us, they did and they brought in a crib for you shortly after. We crashed and slept for 3 hrs!

Once we woke up we went to the Pier 39 area to explore. You seemed to really enjoy everywhere we took you, so that was a lot of fun.

You danced to some jazz from a street performer, squealed at some sea lions, savored a hot fudge sundae, and you got to ride on the Powell-Hyde street cable car from the Ghirardelli square back to our hotel.

We went to Jake's medical school graduation the next day, after which you spent some quality time with all of his nieces and nephews, who all ended up on a big trampoline that you seemed to absolutely love.

The following day we saw the golden gate bridge, took you to golden gate park... which is huge, and we took a hike in the Muir Redwood forest which was unbelievably beautiful! We even got to enjoy some time with Jeromey's grade school best friend Matt, and our friends Erin and Abtin made a stop in SF as well.

Your eating habits didn't change much, but you did eat ok while on the trip. It was tough with your naps, because they would get delayed every time, but eventually you did nap, either in the car or hotel and we were able to do more sight seeing after! Your bedtime got delayed as well, but you slept ok through the night and even slept in 2 days in a row... probably because it took a lot longer to fall asleep.

On the way back we decided to save the visit to Hearst Castle for another trip, and we drove straight home, which was also very tiring but we were very happy to finally get there and we didn't get stuck in a lot of traffic either so that helped. I did manage to catch a cold on our way back, but luckily it was just me and not you who got it.

Here are a few highlights from the trip.