Sister Weekend (Minus One)

2 weeks ago, on Friday night, August 31st, after a 4 hour flight delay, I landed at San Francisco International Airport and met up with Cayla and Cathryn for a Labor Day weekend full of hiking and exploring in the Bay Area. The only thing missing was our dear, sweet Camie. 

Cayla and I starting off on our first hike of the weekend on Saturday:



This is us after our first hike--a 9 mile round trip hike in Montara/Pacifica.


Sunday we rode BART into San Francisco:



It was an absolutely gorgeous day in the City, clear and warm, blue skies and sunshine. We climbed 284 steps up Filbert Street--the steepest street in a city full of steep streets.





We went to the top of Coit Tower:


We explored some beautiful Catholic churches in Little Italy, including the National Shrine of Saint Francis of Assisi (!!), visited City Lights Bookstore (home of the Beats), and ate way too much garlic at The Stinking Rose.

 










And on Monday we went to Muir Woods...and hiked through cool redwood forests and over sunlit hills for 5 miles to the ocean. Does life get better than that?

 











The Bay Area is so, so, so beautiful: it makes me really hopeful for the New Earth.

And I love my sisters. <3