Mother's Day Weekend in San Francisco

A few weeks ago, I suggested to Collin that we fly up to San Francisco for Mother's Day weekend. It was a place I had never been and had really wanted to visit! JetBlue fares were pretty reasonable for the one hour flight, and thanks to our Starwood points we are always able to stay in hotels for free!

We arrived on Saturday morning and as soon as we got to the hotel, we had a little impromptu photo shoot with Laila on the big white bed. She was having a ball crawling all over and burying herself under all the pillows!

Dada even got in on the fun!

We then headed down to the Palo Alto area to visit with our friends Matt and Christen. They have a little boy named Derek who is about two months older than Laila! It was so great to see them and catch up! It had been way too long since we had last gotten together. The kids got along well and it was fun that they could finally meet!

After we got to their house and played for a bit, we headed off to lunch and then to walk around the Stanford campus. Matt works there and Laila's Uncle Kyle and Grandy both went to Stanford so we're hoping Laila will go there too!

The next day we did all the touristy San Francisco stuff - Ghirardelli Square, Fisherman's Wharf, rode the cable cars, saw the Golden Gate bridge, etc. It was a lot of fun to go somewhere new, but man is it EXHAUSTING toting a 9 month old around a city all day! We had a fabulous day and were all asleep before the sun went down.

The evening was ended with bath time for Laila and another photo shoot because the first one was just too much fun.

We ended our trip on Monday by parting ways at the airport. Collin headed to Washington DC for a business meeting and Laila and I headed back to HB.  We got the whole row to ourselves on the airplane so of course we had to take more photos. Laila made friends with the woman in the aisle across from us, so she crawled back and forth for a large part of the flight. 

Overall we had a great trip and look forward to going back and exploring things we didn't get the chance to see this time around! It was a great first Mother's Day!