Weather yesterday.

I took 3 days off this week, but really, it just amounts to one play day. The rest is just the endless chores that go with being a dad in this modern world and the illnesses that seem to strike my family more often than they should. Today was mostly chores. Same with tomorrow. The only fun day was yesterday.

So S was to daycare and Wifey went to work because she has fewer vacation days than I do. It was me, my parents, and Little J. My parents hadn't been up to Marin so we decided to make a day trip out of it. We left the house at around 9. It was sunny. By the time we got to the city, it was about 50 degrees and foggy. Our first stop was Golden Gate bridge. We couldn't see 15 feet in front of us. For those of us who live in the Bay Area, that's just an accepted part of being out here. The Golden Gate Bridge is a trap. The weather often sucks. It's cold up there.

We drove through the rainbow tunnel, past Muir Woods all the way down to Stinson Beach. It's quite a trek in good weather, and just crazy when it's foggy out there. It's great that everyone was able to hold onto their breakfast. Little J loved the beach. She loved the sand, the sticks, the rock. She wanted to touch everything, except the water. The water scared her. I asked her which made more noise, her or the ocean. She said, she was louder, but the ocean made more. She loved running around in her bare feet. The beach was cloudy but not windy like the bridge.

We continued north until we hit the little town of Olena. We stopped for lunch. Little J ate a pound of french fries and most of a grilled cheese sandwich. It was very impressive. Sunny and hot through lunch.

We went on a short hike near the visitor center there. It was the epicenter of the 1906 SF earthquake. Point Reyes is a pretty interesting geographic place. It's really an island that sits on the other side of the fault on the Pacific Ocean plate. It was an island that started out near Santa Barbara several million years ago. It's slowly been working its way north. But for the time being, it's gotten jammed against, the continental plate and formed a peninsula. Beautiful weather out there.

After that we drove out to the Point Reyes lighthouse. Foggy and wet and wild and a 20+ mile drive. Pretty crazy drive. I'm not sure, J got what the lighthouse was about.

Drove back through Petaluma. Sunny.

Hit San Francisco. Cloudy.

South a little further. Sunny again.

I've never been anywhere else where the weather changes every fifteen miles. Maybe it's unique to the Bay Area. I'm not sure.