Happy New Year!

Well, this was a New Year's first for us! This is how we spent the first day of 2008. We went to a beach near Half Moon Bay that was pretty sheltered, and for Northern California, pretty warm. 60 degrees and not too windy. You can see we started with jackets but then got rid of them.

William took this picture of me and the kids right before that wave behind us filled up our sneakers with water and sand! But it was soooo pretty and the kids actually got to look for some shells which they love to do but isn't necessarily a feature of all the beaches around here.

And Joshua just wanted to walk around and through

sand up in the air!

And then after we had some lunch the kids were still game for more adventure so we went back into San Francisco to explore. It was a great day for exploring by the way. I guess there must have been a lot of folks staying home to nurse hang-overs of recover from late nights because it was a lot easier to get around and find parking. We stopped to explore this amazing place. It is not just a museum, it is the Palace of fine art! And it really seemed like a palace to us! Someday maybe we will make it inside-on a day they are open. It was a very unusual New Years Day, but really fun! Hope yours was too!