pictures of eternal memories

These are just a few of the 300 pictures that we took while in San Francisco, CA for New Years 2009.
I thought that you'd like to see these. We drove up on Tuesday 30-December 2008 and returned to Phoenix on Monday 5-January 2009.

We stayed in an apartment of an awesome friend and your boyfriend, Kim and Devon. They were fabulous in letting us use their apartment straight down town south of Golden Gate Park. It was cozy and they were so sweet to let us use it while they were ironically, here in Phoenix and Las Vegas for the Holidays. We thank them and loved their company the night before we left and when they returned home. We were able to park the car on Lincoln and technically leave it there the entire time. It worked out great. We only drove the car to Concord and to Oakland and the rest of the time we used public transportation which was awesome.

The LDS Oakland Temple at night. We attended the temple earlier that day and the fog was so bad that we couldn't take pictures and by the time we returned later that day, it was to dark...so, this is a beautiful picture of the temple at Christmas time at night!

The Golden Gate Bridge at sun down. It was absolutely beautiful and it wasn't cold nor was the wind terrible. It was just perfect!

This is of us freezing, well I was at least while we were on the Cable Car down by Fisherman's Wharf, San Fran, waiting to leave to go up to Nob Hill, Chinatown other fun locations!

OK...this was an awesome place? Anyone want guess where this is? It was freezing cold the day we took this picture!

OK, this pictures is hilarious. Let me explain this one. We are on the MUNI and we started talking to this guy and then I asked him if he would take our picture and so he said, "oh sure, let me fix my hair!" and then he threw up the peace sign as you can see and so we had to take the picture and keep it because it was so hilarious. This is how nice the people were the entire trip. They were so kind and thoughtful and VERY helpful, especially if we had direction questions. When he got off the MUNI he even looked back and waived good bye to us and we couldn't help but smile and wave excitedly back. He proceeded to tell us about his gang related family and friends and shootings and his friends mother here in Phoenix that passed away and that his friend had to come down by Greyhound to be at the funeral for. We had to keep the picture and pass it on to those who read the blog!

This should bring back awesome memories for any and all of the Wicke family! We tried to get inside the house, but nobody was home the 2 times we went there.

Nathan at the Concord BART Station

The Golden Gate Bridge during the day when the fog was terrible, however, still kind of nice. It was freezing to Karen and Nathan thought that it was summer time!

So, that is our trip.

Love all of ya,

Karen and Nathan