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		<title>Ginny and Charlie&#8217;s visit to the Bay</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Poor Ginny was sick with a terrible cold as soon as she got here, but she was a trooper cold and came out with us on Saturday to tour the city. ]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span class="drop">J</span>esse&#8217;s mom had a conference in San Francisco this past week. They decided to make it a little vacation so Charlie came along too. Poor Ginny was sick with a terrible cold as soon as she got here.  We were lucky she was able to come out with us on Saturday to tour the city. I&#8217;m sure she would have been much more comfortable with a bowl of soup in bed!</p>
<p>The two of them took the <a href="http://www.sfcablecar.com/routes.html">Powell-Hyde cable car</a> to meet Jesse and I by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_Maritime_National_Historical_Park">Aquatic park</a> and we then walked down by<a href="http://www.pier39.com/"> Pier 39</a> to see the seals and eat some Mexican food.</p>
<p><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-455" title="dsc_2460" src="http://dybenko.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/dsc_2460-500x334.jpg" alt="dsc_2460" width="400" height="267" />After that, we headed out in our car for the &#8220;defacto&#8221; Golden Gate Bridge photo opportunity and an hour long tour of the city by car.</p>
<p>Jesse drove, while I did my best to remember all the famous sites I&#8217;ve learned from going on many <a href="http://www.sfcityguides.org/">walking tours</a> during our time in SF (I can&#8217;t say I didn&#8217;t consult my iphone google map more than a few times).  We felt a little bit of nostalgia, even though we&#8217;ve only been out of the city for a few months. It&#8217;s a really beautiful place and it&#8217;s kind of sad it&#8217;s not our home anymore.</p>
<p>On Sunday Ginny and Charlie rented a car and drove down to visit us in Cupertino.  They told us the car rental place offered them a PT Cruiser and they flat-out refused it.  We had to laugh, cause we would have too, we HATE those cars.</p>
<p>We showed them our little apartment and then toured them past Apple, Google and the Nasa wind tunnel.  Jesse has a fascination with wind tunnels ever since he did his Masters research at <a href="http://uwo.ca/">UWO</a>.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.ccastronomy.org/photo_NASA-Ames_2003-06-22-wer-14_640x480.jpg"><img class="alignright" title="NASA Wind Tunnel" src="http://www.ccastronomy.org/photo_NASA-Ames_2003-06-22-wer-14_640x480.jpg" alt="" width="269" height="202" /></a> There were no tours of the <a href="http://www.arc.nasa.gov/">NASA wind tunnel</a> available (due to increased security since 9/11) but Charlie managed to find a road around the back of it where we could see the massive &#8220;intake&#8221;. It was really huge.  It&#8217;s hard to believe they test whole air crafts in this wind tunnel. (I remember that&#8217;s what I expected to see when Jesse showed me the wind tunnel he did his research on at UWO for his thesis. I was greatly disappointed when it was only 20 feet long and sat on a table.)</p>
<p>Ginny and Charlie flew home on Monday, we were so thankful we got to spend some quality time.</p>
<h2>Photos from Saturday</h2>
<h3>Most shots were from inside the car and didn&#8217;t turn out to well!</h3>

<a href='http://dybenko.net/2009/02/13/ginny-and-charlies-visit-to-the-bay/dsc_2453/' title='Ginny watching the seals.'><img width="150" height="150" src="http://dybenko.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/dsc_2453-150x150.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="Ginny watching the seals." title="Ginny watching the seals." /></a>
<a href='http://dybenko.net/2009/02/13/ginny-and-charlies-visit-to-the-bay/dsc_2454/' title='Jesse checking out the view.'><img width="150" height="150" src="http://dybenko.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/dsc_2454-150x150.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="Jesse checking out the view." title="Jesse checking out the view." /></a>
<a href='http://dybenko.net/2009/02/13/ginny-and-charlies-visit-to-the-bay/dsc_2458/' title='Ginny being a trooper - she was so sick!'><img width="150" height="150" src="http://dybenko.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/dsc_2458-150x150.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="Ginny being a trooper - she was so sick!" title="Ginny being a trooper - she was so sick!" /></a>
<a href='http://dybenko.net/2009/02/13/ginny-and-charlies-visit-to-the-bay/dsc_2459/' title='The Bridge in BW'><img width="150" height="150" src="http://dybenko.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/dsc_2459-150x150.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="The Bridge in BW" title="The Bridge in BW" /></a>
<a href='http://dybenko.net/2009/02/13/ginny-and-charlies-visit-to-the-bay/dsc_2460/' title='Ginny and Charlie at the bridge'><img width="150" height="150" src="http://dybenko.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/dsc_2460-150x150.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="Ginny and Charlie at the bridge" title="Ginny and Charlie at the bridge" /></a>
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