The Button Family: July 2012

Saturday, July 28, 2012

Frenchity Bread

Garett told me that I was a bad mom because I wouldn't give him Frenchity bread today. :D

Thursday, July 26, 2012

Coach Cal

Tate got to go to UK's Coach Calipari Camp in June. It was so exciting to meet the man who took UK to the NCAA tournament and brought home the title and trophy.

Sunday, July 08, 2012

Garett was telling me a memory he had of going to the Macaroni Grill when he was little. He said he remembered that being the first time he ever learned what "jinx" meant. Perhaps we had a conversation in the car on the way there or at the dinner table, who knows-

At any rate, he said to me today, "That was the first time I realized that conversation was important. I always thought when grown-ups talked it was just a bunch of jibber-jabber. But then I learned you could play a game like "jinx" and it was actually fun to talk to grown-ups.

Hello, Vancouver!

We didn't have long in Vancouver, but we had just enough time to do a little tour of the downtown and get some maple almonds for Dad. We ran into this furry beast along the way.

Clue

On the Lido Deck playing our favorite game... Clue!

Bingo

B-I-N-G-O was a lot of fun, but we didn't win. I think they should have handed out prized for girl with the cutest pink nails. But they didn't have any prize money for that!

Golden Princess to Vancouver, B.C.

Fancy Breakfast on the cruise

Dressy Dinner

Little Missy wanted to get ALL dressed up for dinner. She might have a future in the modeling world!

Good-bye, San Francisco… Hello, Cruise!

Our Cruise Ship

Stinky Street

The day we departed San Francisco to catch our cruise to Vancouver, we had to get a bowl of clam chowder in a bread bowl. It was the thing I REALLY wanted to do. My friend, Dawn, told me I had to go to Stinky Street to find it. Stinky Street? I didn't see that on the map.

Funny, how when you get there, though, you just know that you are there. It was easy. I got mine from Sabella & LaTorre's. It was out of this world!

Favorite

These were Kevin's favorite pictures that I brought home. Marissa loved the Pacific and was so excited to have touched this ocean. She had a blast at dusk running along the beach and throwing herself in the sand.

Yep

That is more ice cream, folks! Ghiradelli Square.

Oh… and Crepes, too!

Sausalito

The best thing about a trip with Mom? You can talk her into ice cream at any time, anywhere!

Sea Otters

We actually saw sea otters along our bike path. So cool!

Biking across the Golden Gate Bridge

We got the crazy notion to bike across the Golden Gate Bridge. It seemed like that was the "thing" to do in San Francisco. I wasn't sure if we could do it. It had been a little while since I had been on a bike and it seemed kinda long. We were triumphant! We biked 8 miles and Marissa STILL wanted to bike more. I have no idea how many miles we actually got in, but it was sooo fun. We made it to Sausalito and took a ferry back to Fisherman's Wharf, where our hotel was. More pictures of Sausalito to come!

The Bay

Lombard Street

Fortune Cookie Factory

Yes. This is a factory.

Marissa and I walked through, around, up, down and over to find what was labeled on the map as the "Fortune Cookie Factory". We walked through every little walkway and alley looking for it. We actually passed this "factory" about three times before we realized that this little hole-in-the-wall was the "factory".

We were amazed how they made the fortune cookies, though. This lady sits and pulls little bitty pancake looking cookies off a little griddle and folds them, sticks the message in, and lays them to cool on this special cookie sheet with holes. It is all done by hand.

We got to take our picture with the fortune cookie maker because we paid 50 cents!