Tuesday, March 2, 2010

MacWorld 2010

Now that the olympics are over I can get back to my life and blog about it.
We had the opportunity to go to San Francisco to the MacWorld Expo Convention.
We went the week of Valentines.
My wonderful Mother-in-law watch Tori for us so we could enjoy it by ourselves
the scenery up to San Fran was beautiful.
We got out of the car to eat dinner in San Fran and this is what we saw. I love all these trees and wished we had them here in AZ.
The first day we were there we decided to go to the Expo and see all the new technology coming out.

this only shows maybe 1/4 of the floor at the expo.
We were able to see Best of Show presentation and all the crazy stuff that will be coming out.
Man I didn't have an iPhone and I felt very out of place.
an iPhone can do everything now days.
That evening we walked around Pier 39

We ate at Bubba Gump and enjoyed all sorts of Shrimp.
The next day Brett went to a couple different classes at MacWorld and I traveled around the city taking pictures.
Every morning it was so foggy and could and then 15 minutes after i took this picture you could see the blue sky and the top of the buildings.

I hiked up to the crooked street.
this is the was I had to hike up.
Everything in San Fran is so different than Arizona.
Everything in Arizona is flat and the streets are on some kind of grid.
Streets start and end where ever they feel like it in California.
No one has a front yard either and everything looks like it was built all together and then just painted different colors so you could tell them apart.
This was a completely normal street and then all of a sudden this building was in the middle



The next day we took a boat cruise under the Golden Gate Bridge and around Alcatraz.
very romantic




We also had time to go and visit the Oakland Temple.
Very pretty building with many pretty flowers.


I took these pictures on my outing by myself.
San Francisco Bay Bridge above
Palace of Fine Arts below


I got bored walking around by myself and feed the pigeons.
we had a great time there but would not want to live there.
you have to pay for parking everywhere you go or take public transportation. both suck.
Especially when you get into Chinatown and everyone packs on to the bus as though it was taking everyone on board to heaven.

We already have our tickets to go again next year!

If you want to know more about the expo and what we saw and learned there you will have to ask Brett.

3 comments:

Jonny and Brittany said...

So fun!!!! I feel the same way about not wanting to live there! Good ole Dylan Dingle is living over there now and working at UOP over there...I would HATE the parking!

The Payne family said...

Oh how I love San Franscisco! Why didn't you drive through Fresno on your way and come see us?!! It's ok, I forgive you.

bretandjulie said...

Beautiful pictures! My favorite is the flowers in front of the Oakland Temple (my temple.) Glad you had a chance to get away with Brett.

What ward is your friend in, in Fresno? Our family is all over the place.