Mahokenatez: Very pleasant in Pleasanton...but traveling sucks!

We spent the 5th through the 14th in Northern California, Pleasanton, CA to be exact. Pleasanton is about a 1/2 hour drive east of San Francisco. Kate was sent out west by Kimberly-Clark for work and Joslyn and I decided to joined her for the 10 day trip. Most days Joslyn and I hung out and went sight seeing. Couple of the things we did were visit state parks, where we climbed to the top of Mount Diablo and had 360 degree views of the area. We also visited many vibrant downtowns in the area such as Danville, Livermore and Pleasanton. Over the weekend Kate was able to get in a race in Menlo Park. Sadly it rained the entire time and Kate crashed twice!!! She was OK but was a little upset because she was feeling really good for the race. After the race we spent the rest of the day downtown San Francisco with our good friend Ryan! Ryan had just recently moved, so we got to see his fancy high rise apartment(nice view by the way). The rest of the day was spent walking around seeing the sights. I'll let the picture do the rest of the talking.

Traveling caused me the most stress. On the way out I flew solo and Kate was with Joslyn. Kate's plane left ATL at 10am however mine didn't leave until 3pm. So I sat at the airport and waited. Once I left I flew to Charlotte and then to San Francisco. It was 9:30pm in SFO when I arrived. Sadly my rental car company was closed and I was stranded at the airport. Since Kate had baby I flew with all the luggage. Needless to say I wasn't too happy to have to lug all the luggage back up the 4th floor where I could rent a car from a different company. After all that I made it to the hotel by 11:30pm (2:30am back in ATL). I was tired and that was the getting to SFO story. Coming home I had Joslyn and Kate's bike. Our flight from SFO was cancelled and instead flew to D.C. the upside to that is we flew on a 777 and it only took 4 hours to fly across the country. The down side was it's a big plane and it took then forever to unload our car seat. As you guessed we missed our connection and had to spend the night in D.C. The next day we flew out at 8am. Sorry not that easy, the plane was delayed an hour and we flew out at 9am. All of this really took its toll on me. I just wanted to get home!!! Got to ATL took the train from the airport and of course I didn't get the direct train. So once again we made a transfer. We finnally made it home by 1pm, just in time for my 2pm doctors appointment(which took 3 hours).