Nikki Picky: San Fran Fun

Last weekend Nate and I met up with his family in San Francisco for an action-packed weekend. Although we were only there for a long weekend we fit a ton of stuff in. We had a GREAT time!

Here are some pictures of our first couple of days. Hopefully I can post the rest of the trip when I get Nate's pics. I tried to keep them in chronological order.. so here we go

Thursday we arrived at around 4. We took the bart to our hotel and met up with the rest of the group who had beat us there. We hopped on a trolley and made our way to Pier 39. Later, we went to a seafood restaurant called Scoma's. Although, it was a LONG wait, the food was really good (my ahi even came prepared "very rare").

Here are the Butler "kids" and Don, Nate's dad

We had wonderful weather, but it did get cold in the evening. This is Charlie, Nate's newest nephew, bundled up in the cold.

We ended up eating at a breakfast place called Mel's Diner almost everyday. It was convenient because it was close to the hotel, they never had a problem accomodating a party of 10, and their french toast was pretty good too :)

Mark and Kate (aka Charlie's parents)

Lynn and Don.. oh, and Charlie, of course

Mike and Emily

Friday morning we took a trip on the old cable cars. This was more fun than I expected - the driver was hilarious and it was just a really neat way to view the city.

Lynn, Peter and Brittney in the cable car

Nate and Mike got the best seat... hanging on to the back!

We also checked out Lombard street, the famously curvy road. This is also where the cable car riders met up with the walkers.

Emily and Mark carrying Charlie up the many stairs

Charlie didn't seem to mind the stairs at all ;)

Nate showing us his cartwheeling skills down the very steep street

We got some ice cream at Ghiradelli Square. Best chocolate chip ice cream ever! I promise we did not eat all this chocalate... Mike just thought it would make for a better picture