California

We took it pretty easy today, we visited the Oakland Temple; checked out a cool place called Jack London Square; took pics of the famous Golden Gate Bridge from Fort Baker; hung out at Pier 49; drove the streets of downtown San Fran looking for cable cars, which we didn’t find; then had Japanese fried chicken at this cool restaurant (can’t remember the name of it) in downtown Oakland, which by the way has some cool graffiti art!  Ok… maybe we didn’t take it pretty easy!

Highlight of the day… feeling like a 16 year old driving his first car!  Let me explain… while driving downtown San Fran (if you’ve ever driven, you’ll know what I’m talking about), we were first car stopped on the steepest hill I’ve ever been on!   I started to freak out a little… ok a lot!   I told Joey,  there better not be any cars behind us,  well, you guessed it… a super new and nice Toyota Highlander right on my tail… inches from our little Fiat!   I immediately put on the parking break and started sweating as I waited for the red light to turn green.    Green light, I better go!   First attempt, stalled the car… Second attempt, squealed the tires and stalled the car again!   Third attempt… 4K RPMS, Squealed tires, and whew!  We made it without rolling the car back!  I felt a huge accomplishment being able to get out of there without having to get out and having Joey give it a go.   After we were driving again Joey says, you know, the Fiat has ‘hill assist’ that would have held you in place without you doing everything you did… I replied, yeah, you’re right, yet now we have a story to tell!