Our Thursday started off with a walk to Safeway. Instead of cooking our own feast we opted to buy it all precooked from Safeway. Unfortunately it was misting and we needed an umbrella, but we still stopped to pose for a picture.
We showed Tina the ballpark on the way and made sure to get a picture of her in front.
Aunt Deb suggested we buy the meal from Safeway and I'm so glad she did. It included a precooked turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, gravy, cranberry sauce, dinner rolls and pumpkin pie. Plus it feeds about 6- 8 people so we have lots of leftovers.
We all pitched in and had fun heating up our food. The turkey cooked for about 2 hours so it made the apartment smell amazing.
Everything was delicious and made our Thanksgiving feel like it was home cooked. We all agreed that the pumpkin pie was nothing like grandmas. Although we did miss the family back home in Iowa, we still made the holiday one to remember.
The rain stopped and we had lots of time left in the day so we set off for Coit Tower. Along our way we snapped a picture of Tina in front of the Federal Reserve Building (the occupy protestors are gone from this location, but we knew her mom would appreciate the picture), we showed her the occupy camp out in front of the Ferry Building and went around back and got some views of the Bay Bridge.
We continued with our hike up to Coit Tower. It was no easy hike, it included lots of stairs and steep sidewalks. We stopped a long the way to catch our breath and take some fun pictures.
We made it to the top and admired the murals telling stories of San Francisco.
Surprisingly even with the holiday the tower was open and we thought it would be fun to go to the top. Joe and I have never gone up there and the sky was clearing so we thought it was a perfect opportunity.
I told Tina to demonstrate how steep some of the sidewalks in the city are. The whole day was a pretty good workout. Good thing Tina's in shape, we walk pretty much the whole city.
We stopped for ice cream at Pier 39 even though it was pretty chilly. Our rationale, of course, came from all of the walking we had done already. The very end of Pier 39 has a great view of Alcatraz so we snapped some pictures there.
Our last stop on our way home was on a different pedestrian pier. The skyline was beautiful with the sun going down
Our Thanksgiving turned out perfectly. We are so thankful for Tina visiting us and can't wait to see the rest of the family over Christmas.
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