Day 3 and 4 (2010)

Day 3: Tuesday

Today I went to the Exploratorium. It’s museum where kids can play with stuff. I liked the water tornado. It was cool. On the bottom floor I like the smelly exhibit. Me and Mom and Geoff played this game where you have to tell where the other person is lying. I said, “I have no aces.” Four times. One time you are lying. The other person has to guess which time. I had a cookie there in the cafeteria.

For lunch I was at this pretty dome called the Palace of Fine Arts. I ate my sandwich and then I climbed a tree. I climbed down because I saw a spider. And then I climbed another tree. Me and my sister climbed that one.

Then I went inside again. Then I went upstairs. On the top floor, I made a picture. It was cool because it has lots of lines over and over again and in different colors. It was made by a drawing machine – a big wooden thing. I liked it. I brang it home. And then I saw someone take apart a REAL cow’s eyeball. We got to see him open up the eye. There was gel inside that we saw. The color inside of the gel was clear. The other colors were black and one was shiny blue. The pupil is the back of your eye. And then I saw a human brain. A real one, too.

And then I went home to the Mission Dolores. I made desserts and colorful eggs. I had a fun time with Uncle Geoff. One was a world one that I made. Tabby’s had spots. It was very cool. We made movies of Tabby’s robotic toy named Ickatod. Then we went to bed in our tent. The end.

Day 4: Wednesday

Today I had breakfast at Katz Bagels. They were good. I had mine with butter, but I ordered with cinnamon butter. I had orange juice for a drink.

Then I went to a museum. It was called the California Academy of Sciences. It had all sorts of things. The first thing that I saw when I got in was a T-Rex. The T-Rex skeleton was huge.

First we went in the rain forest exhibit. One butterfly almost flew on me. And I saw two birds. They were macaws. I have a macaw feather at home, and so does my sister. I saw some ants carrying lots of leaves. I went upstairs to the top floor and there were hundreds of butterflies. They were all different colors. And they were all different sizes.

Then I went downstairs to the aquarium. I saw lots of fish. They were pretty. I got to see jellyfish. They were bright pink and glowed in the dark. They fed the fish there. I saw some snakes and bugs. I saw hundreds of plants. I saw a star thing and the roof was a globe. Not a globe that you think it would be. It went all the way around. It was not really a globe. It was kind of like an oval.

Then I had lunch. For lunch I had quesadillas and French fries and mango pudding and Clementine soda.

Then we went to the penguins. I got to see them jump in. It was pretty fun. Then I saw some fake animals. I also saw some gazelles which my sister’s name means. And then I went on the roof. The roof was grass. It was weird. Then I got a magic trick at the gift store.

And that’s the end!

Lauren in San Francisco 2010 - Day 1

It took a long while to get there. It was fun. Me and Tabby were on the plane and we had pretzels and we made them look like vampire teeth. It was funny. We had a stop at Kansas, but then we went to San Francisco.

Then we got picked up by Uncle Dave. He took us to the apartment. They have a new cat. And then we went to the park and had an ice cream. I got pink. And my sister got vanilla. I played a lot. But my sister just chased the pigeons.

Then we went to Denise’s and had dinner.

When I slept I slept in a tent in Uncle Geoff’s living room. It was fun doing that. Mom read us Little House in the Big Woods for us to go to sleep.

Today I went to the beach. I found lots of things. I’m going to show you them. Me and my sister played with dogs. And we touched crabs and starfish. I saw the Golden Gate Bridge when I was at the beach.

Next I went to Lombard Street. Lombard Street went straight down. It had lots of curves. Me and my mom and dad and sister went up and down the stairs.

Then we went to Geoff’s shop. He sells cheese, cookies and candies and sodas. I bought a cookie.

Then I went on a cable car. It went up really high. It was fun on the cable car. It sounded like a bunch of bees. Then I went to the Cable Car Museum. There was two big rooms. On the bottom one it showed how cable cars work underground. The other room had these big wheels and a gift shop. I spent most of my time in the gift shop.

Mom put a scarf in my hair.

Lauren in San Francisco - Day 5 (5/26/08)

First we went to a fancy breakfast. It was fun. And I got a huge pancake, with strawberries on top! Then we went to the airport. First we stopped in Kansas City, and then we went to our airport. Then we drove home. It was good to be home. And I snuggled with my two kitties very a lot.

As told by Lauren to Dad, her faithful typist.

Lauren in San Francisco - Day 4 (5/25/08)

First, we went over the Golden Gate Bridge. It was a little fun. And then we went to the redwood forest. The trees were so big that they were almost as big as the clouds! Then we went to the beach. I got to dip my toes in the water - in the Pacific Ocean.

Then we went to the lighthouse. We got to go inside a building. We went on a bridge to get there, and there was only two people on it at a time.

Then we drove back to the Golden Gate Bridge. We had pizza. And that is my day.

Lauren in San Francisco – Day 3

Today we went to Angel Island. It was fun. We got to go hiking. We got to find feathers, and they were all big, but one was small. We had a picnic at the picnic table. We got to go on the beach and collect lots of shells – and we even found crabs, real live crabs! They were moving too. We found one big crab shell, and it was a dead crab shell. We saw some big trees on the hike. And we saw a really old hospital that I think it was from World War II. Soldiers got hurt and they came there too. In back, they didn’t have medicines or shots. And we went really high. When we went down we went really fast, and it was really cool.

My uncle found a really old can. I think it was as old as the house, too. The house was little this time. But when it was back, it was big too.

We went bungee-jumping. I did lots of back-flips, and it was real bungee jumping. It was fun. My sister got a turn too. She was first.

We went on the cable car, and it was really fun. We got to go up and down hills. There were people hanging out of the cable car too, on a railing.

Lauren in San Francisco – Day 2

First of all, we went to Geoff’s bakery. I have never seen fighting lobsters, but there were lobsters. They had rubber bands around their claws. It was so fascinating. We tried to go on the cable car, but it didn’t work. Then we started to go on the subway. It was fun. We got to go underground. Then we had the right stop.

It was Uncle Dave’s birthday, and we went to a fancy restaurant. It was a little bit fun! And it is always summer here in San Francisco.

We had a cake at dinner, because it was a birthday. It was yummy.

First Day in San Francisco, May 23, 2008

This is Denise’s garden. It is huge. It is in San Francisco. I picked up some petals. It was fun.












I am at Mission Dolores museum. There is a graveyard, too.

I am at the gate in the Mission. There are other people, too. Tabby is in the picture with me.

Dictated by Lauren.
Transcribed by Mom.