Brad and I met up with my parents in San Fransisco last month for one last hurrah before school started. It was such a fun (kids free!) trip; I feel bad that I'm just getting around to documenting it. Our first stop was Alcatraz. My hair lost the fight to the Bay wind. Some pivoting and strategic hand placement made for a more successful photo... We were pretty upset that we didn't have our own "Vicky" as a tour guide. But the audio tour was still really cool. A typical cell... Brad incarcerated in a typical cell... We let him roam the yard for good behavior. Here's my question to Bobby Kennedy: if Alcatraz was supposedly so effective, why shut it down?? Some bad guys are just beyond rehabilitation. I say, lock 'em in a damp cell forever. Anyway - we also went to a Giants game that first day and had a blast! I think Brad and my dad got sick of listening to my mom and me take guesses at what RBI and ERA and all the other baseball acronym terminology stood for.....