Liberty went with Olivia and her parents to Northern California on Saturday, April 4, 2009. They flew into the San Francisco Airport and then drove down the coast to Monterey for the first couple of days. They stopped a few times along the highway to take some pictures of the Pacific Ocean because it was beautiful. They visited the Monterey Bay Aquarium (visit website to see live webcams) and saw neat exhibits on seahorses and jelly fish and watched the Aquarium staff feed the penguins and otters. Then they drove through the 17 Mile Drive along Pebble Beach golf course. Olivia narrated the tour with the brochure that they received at the gate. 
The next day, they drove further down the coast to San Simeon and toured Hearst Castle. It was one of Olivia's favorite parts of the trip. A woman designed the Castle and it was awesome. The outdoor swimming pool was really cool.
They drove up to Sacramento and went to the California Railroad Museum the next day which was very nice. Then they drove into San Francisco. The first day in San Francisco they went on a city tour on a Hop On, Hop Off double-decker bus. It stopped at the Golden Gate Bridge and Liberty, Olivia, and Olivia's parents walked to the center of the Golden Gate Bridge and then back. It was a little scary and very windy and chilly. It is 220 feet from the bridge to the water at the center point. That night they went to see the musical "Grease" starring Taylor Hicks (from American Idol) and they liked that a lot. 
The second day in San Francisco, it was rainy but they went to Alcatraz. The tour started with a boat ride to get to the island and then an audio tour (with headphones) around the prison cell house. They learned all about what it was like to live and work there. In the afternoon, they went to the Giants vs the Brewers baseball game at AT&T Park and the Giants won. The pigeons were flying over their heads looking for food during the game which was weird.
The next day they went to the crookedest street in the world (Lombard Street). They rode on the cable car several times and Olivia got to stand on the outside and hold on to the pole. They got plenty of exercise walking up and down all of the steep hills around San Francisco. Other things that they saw included Coit Tower, Ghirardelli Square (for yummy chocolate and ice cream), and the Cable Car Museum. Olivia and Liberty learned a lot of interesting things on this trip. They also rode on Street cars that were brought to San Francisco from other places all over the world like Milan, Italy.
On the last day they went to Muir Woods and saw redwood trees that were over 200 feet tall and 2000 years old. It was cold inside the Redwood Forest but really neat to look around and up. They visited the town of Sausalito and did some shopping also.
We flew back home overnight returning on Easter morning. It was a really fun trip!
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