Lights of San Francisco
Last Sunday we headed to San Francisco to tour the city and see some Christmas lights on a cable car. This was highly recommended by some friends, so we met the Williams and headed to San Fran. We were going to have an early dinner at the Cheesecake Factory, but it was really busy and the wait was 2 hours! Seemed strange since it wasn’t even dinner time (3:30). It was crazy busy in the city, people and cars everywhere and we were quickly reminded why we don’t live in the city and hardy ever make the trip! I guess it is fun once in awhile. We managed to get a quick bite at a burger place and barely made it to the bus on time. It was a cold evening and much of the seating was outside, so it was good we bundled up and brought blankets. The girls were screaming every time we went down a hill and were really enjoying themselves. They were playing Christmas music and there were lots of lights for the first 10 minutes. Then, our driver must have gotten lost because it became a tour of San Francisco without any lights to see and it wasn’t even a very interesting tour, especially for children. Reggie kept asking where the lights were and after about the first 25 minutes the kids were bored. Thankfully, about an hour in, we got to stop at the Fairmont Hotel to see the biggest Gingerbread house in the US. We walked right through it and Laura didn’t even realize it. So much for that! The tour was about an hour and a half and we were ready to go find some hot chocolate. It was 7:30 and Starbucks was packed. We had a nice view of the ice rink and lights and the kids enjoyed their cookies and cocoa.

Poor Reggie....surrounded by girls. Someday, he'll love it!

Christmas Performance
Ainsley had her Christmas performance tonight and what a difference a year makes!!! No more Agnes face link!!! She actually sung the songs, did the sign language and was really enjoying herself and it was so fun to watch.

Last year...Agnes:

This year:

We found out a couple days ago that Ainsley was invited to pre-team. She is very excited about it and loves learning new stuff. She had only 1 other child in her class today and the teacher did all kinds of new things with them and she had the biggest grin on her face. Here she is practicing her round off (that she taught herself) and split jump. Click link to see video: http://arrtwade.blogspot.com/.

Everyone is very excited to head to Washington....only 2 days left....the kids have been counting down for a couple weeks! We will see many of you very soon....