It was a full day! We took a cable car to the Cable Car Museum (which is also the cable car garage) where we watched the wheels and cables operate. There are four cables coming into the garage/museum for the three cable-car lines (running along four streets). An electric generator powers the twelve huge wheels…

On Saturday we took BART to Civic Center and walked around the San Francisco Library. It’s a large, modern building, finished in 1996, with six stories and a huge, light-filled atrium. The children’s room featured a large bulletin board that said, “Year of the Horse” and had two paper horses. It reminded me again of…

Laurel finished knitting her second hat – this one for herself. It’s supposed to look like the TARDIS (time machine) from Doctor Who. We rode the bus to the Golden Gate Bridge on New Years Day. I figured the sidewalk on the bridge would be crowded since that was the case when we were there…