Taken For Granted

Do you appreciate the area you live and take full advantage of what it has to offer. I know I have a few friends who truly do, but honestly I really don't. I love where I live and think it's one of the best places in the country to live. We're fairly close to everything we could want - beaches, lakes, snow, the wine country...and San Francisco, one of the most beautiful cities in the world. But we rarely go into the City. The only times we go, besides driving through to go to the airport is when we're visiting my sister-in-law who lives there or when we have out of town guests that we want to show it to.

My mom and stepdad just did an Alaskan cruise that sailed & returned to San Francisco. They actually docked in San Fran yesterday and stayed on board last night. Well we decided to suprise them and meet them in the city yesterday and play tourist with them. And it was so much fun. We walked to Pier 39 and Fisherman's Warf, stopped for appetizers and drinks and did a tour of the USS Pampanito, a US Navy Submarine used in WWII. I wish we had longer to do more stuff, but for the short amount of time had, we did a lot and it was fun to explore the city a little.

Hopefully we'll start going in the City more often because it really has so much to offer. And I don't like taking it for granted.