Shah Family News: San Francisco Trip Part II: AT&T Park, Mission District, and Cupertino!

On Thursday of our trip, we headed back to the city to have lunch with our Carrollton friends, Vishal, Kim and Nipur. After lunch at a local, vegan restaurant, Nipur Kaka took us on a private tour of AT&T Park where he works for the San Francisco Giants! The park is beautiful and seeing the view against the bay with the sea breeze is a breathtaking experience! Krish was definitely thrilled to see where the SF Giants play. He and Daddy were in absolute awe!

After AT&T Park, Nipur Kaka had to go back to work, and we headed to one of our favorite places in the city, Dolores Park in the Mission District. It is right next to our all-time favorite ice cream parlor (introduced to us originally by Vishal Kaka), Bi-Rite Creamery, home to the most amazing ice cream flavor we have ever had the pleasure of trying, ricanelas (a cinnamon sweet cream base mixed in with snicker doodle cookie chunks)! Having that ice cream again brought back some wonderful memories of when we lived in the bay area and made Krish's first birthday cake with ricanelas ice cream. Another one of our favorite bay area dessert shops is also located in the Mission District, and it is Anthony's Cookies (introduced to us by Girish, friends of the Munshi's). We definitely frequented both places while we lived there and while we were on vacation. It definitely was a vacation indeed!

As is our usual, we got some ice cream at Bi-Rite and walked over to Dolores Park to take in the city and enjoy the atmosphere, weather, and our ice cream! Daddy discovered that the park had been recently renovated with a brand new, amazing playground for kids! There was a playground with two colossal slides up on a hill that overlooked the entire city. It was absolutely breathtaking, and Daddy, the kids, and I had the best time here that day! It was so relaxing and peaceful. Being able to relax with the kids in our favorite city really puts us in a great mood!

View of the city from the top of the slide!

Arjun loved running back and forth on the big bridge!

Family shot at the top of the big, wide slide!

Brotherly Love!!! (with the beautiful backdrop of the city!)

On an open field on the other side of the playground overlooking the city!

The boys just loved the big slides, and took many, many rides down them. They were having the time of their lives, and Daddy and I just soaked it all up!

Once it was time to leave the city, we drove to Cupertino to see our cousins, Pallavi, Umeshbhai, Bhavini, Vijaybhai, Bhaven, Divek, Chirag, Vivek and Himani! We sadly missed Jessica, Vijaybhai and Chirag but will hopefully see them the next time we are visiting. Krish had a blast reuniting with Himani after Tricia Masi and Atul Masa's wedding, and Arjun thoroughly enjoyed playing with all of our cousins and their old childhood trucks and cars! Krish even got to play a board game and basketball outside with Vivek and Himani! The boys really had the best time playing with and getting to know all their cousins better throughout this trip. What lucky, little boys!