Saturday, December 12, 2009

THE CANADA/USA TRIP - Chapter Four: San Francisco - 1

Day 18 (April 15) - Dad (Lolo Johnny) and Mom's (Lola Luz) 48th WEDDING ANNIVERSARY


Happy Anni Dad and Mom!


This year we celebrated it with the Castillo Fam sporting suits and formal attire at St. Veronica's Church in South City.

Check it out!


Zachy and Cara with Nikki and RaffyWe had a nice, simple mass and ceremony followed by a family lunch over at the Doubletree Hotel near Burlingame.


The Castillo Fam

The young waiters. They both received nice tips after!


TULOG


We drove around the Bay Area after the Anni Celebration to take in some of the San Francisco Sights.

Rose used to live in San Francisco when she was younger. She came back to live/work in San Fran again after college graduation.
While I used to visit my SFO relatives when we were kids and would jaunt down often from Vancouver to visit Rosabel when she came back to work.

There was one problem though with the touring.

IT WAS TOO WINDY AND COLD TO GET OUT OF THE CAR!!!

The temperature in Canada was colder.
But the SFO wind just magnified everything.
It was like being in a super cold room with an electric fan pointed to you set at 10 (from a max of 3).

YUCK.


Curse you wind!!


NO WAY AM I GETTING OUTTA HERE DAD!



Anywayz, we headed for my fave highway -Highway 1.
We took the Sharp Park Rd coming over from San Bruno and stopped to take a picture of the Pacific Ocean.


And then landed at Rockaway Beach near Pacifica.


We turned the car around at Pacifica and headed north up Highway 1 towards San Francisco.
The winds were so strong that they closed the Great Highway facing the beach as the sand was blowing hard onto the road.

Everyone had to take the parallel side street.


We then stopped at the CLIFF HOUSE.
Everyone was so tired by then and sleeping in the car.


Wind. wind. wind.

A Coast Guard Boat actually went out to sea while I was taking the vid!
Hope it didn't tip over.
It's somewhere in there.






Woohoo! Made it!
The Golden Gate Bridge!


After dinner, we visited Tito Luis, Tita Chibu and Paolo Cui at their house in Pacifica.
It was so nice to see them!
Haven't seen them in a long time!

They're very happy and doing really well.


Complete Photo Album here.