San Francisco: Day 4

Today we went to the California Academy Of Science. It was really neat. It has a whole bunch of things, an aquarium, a natural history exhibit, penguins, a planetarium, a living roof, a reptile exhibit, and a rain forest!The rain forest was super sweet. It was in a big dome with a spiral stair case on the outer edge and you walked up through the layer and got to experience all the plants and animals that live in each layer. The coolest part is that the birds and the butterflies just flew free and the butterflies would just randomly land on people. It was fantastic.

Here are some parrots just chilling in the tree.GIGANTIC amazon river fish. This picture doenst do them justice, they were bigger than people. Scary!
Roaming butterfly
Some rain forest iguana guy.
Inside the aquarium.
Sea Pens!! I loved these little guys. I dont know if anyone else thinks they are cool....im probably just nerding out over their office supply nature due to me background. :)
Me and a galopagos tortise.
Alie and Me waiting outside the planetarium. We saw a show about earth and life on earth. The show was to science-y for my taste, but seeing it on the gigantic screen was cool.
The gift shops were sweet. Mostly because they had all these tee shirts with nerdy science jokes. LOVE.

This is me waiting outside the San Francisco muesem of modern art. We were supposed to meet Jeff and Melanie here at 5, this picture was taken at 6. We drove around downtown for an 2 hours trying to figure out where we were going(our map was WAY WAY WAY to basic and the ipad died) and then when we found it we could not find parking. Plus it was rush hour so it was madness. I waited outside for Jeff while everyone else went inside. No one was impressed by the "art", Alie actually did air quotes. So it wasnt to big a deal to miss.
We finally found a parking place and met up with Jeff and Melanie. They took us to a bar in the top of a hotel were you could look out over San Fran. We had some drinks and said our final goodbyes to them. It was sad, I am gonna miss them.
We stopped at the Golden Gate Bridge on our way out of San Fran for the last time. It is really pretty remarkable. After all the parking hasstle we had gone through earlier in the day, mom just stayed in the car so we wouldnt have to deal with paying for parking.

This is us like 15 steps onto the bridge, just so that we could say that we walked on the Golden Gate Bridge.
Alie and I touching the bridge!
We left San Francisco and headed home the next morning. It was such a fun trip, we only argued once, it was amazing to see San Fran, and Jeff and Melanie and to just spend time together as a family. Thanks again mom and dad!