San Francisco - on our way home

We often entertain ourselves with the SkyMall magazines on the plane. We spotted this hat and thought it fantastic! Mark believes he saw a guy wearing one at Yellowstone. It would be ideal for the follicly challenged folks we know... though we name no names!!

For our night in San Fran we had dinner with an ex-Coles colleague of Marks and his wife. They took us to a restaurant on the bay, close by, and it was a very pleasant evening. The guys caught up on the all the goings on at Coles and Apple. The following day we had until 6pm to be at the airport. We took advantage of the late to pack, mooch and dozed in the room until nearly 1pm.

On checking out we left our luggage in the hotel locker and caught a shuttle bus to Burlingame town. Our hotel was in Burlingame which is considered an airport hotel. We really enjoyed strolling the streets of Burlingame. A very lovely shopping strip. Very much like you would find in Melbourne. We got back to the hotel with time to spare so had a good walk along the waterfront and watching the planes take off and land. Maybe you can see the airport main runway built into the bay. It was fascinating to see the frequency the planes come in and out. In particular was when 2 planes took off at the same time on parallel runways. Once in the air for only 5 - 10 seconds they would start banking away from each other.

A final drink in the hotel bar, with the 2nd game of the World Series baseball playing on the screen, we acknowledged we had had a really great holiday and are fortunate to have had the opportunity.

Yep we did a little shopping, The red soft backpack was empty when we left! Im posting this from Auckland airport. Our final flight home is in about 1.5 hrs and we look forward to seeing you all again. In particular - our babies!!! ..... until next time... hopefully never too far away! xD&M