San Francisco Trip – Day One

After a nice Christmas with Mom and Dad Peterson, Aaron and I drove back to Idaho spent one night at home and turned around and left for San Francisco the next day. We had a 6 AM flight. Yes six in the morning – or as Aaron would put it “The butt crack of dawn” (a phrase I am constantly trying to discourage him from using).

This means we got up at 4:30 left at five for the Idaho Falls airport. Normally this would be plenty of time to get checked in and through security, BUT we had two people in front of us who were trying to figure out their flight transfers to get home (I think I counted 3, maybe 4 to get to Chicago from Idaho Falls) so we were waiting in line to get our baggage tags for a half hour. Then we finally got our tags and headed over to TSA (by this time we were the only people waiting in security) I somehow got the short straw and the lady had to totally go through my bag and wipe it down with the little cloth thingy. By this time our flight is boarding and the TSA agent is taking her sweet time. She then declares that she’s gotten an explosive reading off a pair of my shoes (Yes you really need to watch out for those pregnant terrorists) and we spend another five minutes waiting for her supervisor to come by clear the alarm and give me the OK.

Once they have decided that I am not trying to blow up the propeller plane connecting flight from Idaho Falls to Boise, Idaho, Aaron and I finally get to board the plane….. so we can sit on the ground for another 45 minutes while they de-ice the plane for the second time.

We fortunately made our connecting flight – which was delayed even more while they de-iced that plane, and finally made it into San Jose.

Starving we stopped at In-N-Out Burger (so yummy) at 11 in the morning (we didn’t have much of a breakfast) for a double burger animal style (grilled onions) fries and a drink.

Something that I’ve really enjoyed with Aaron is going to different temples – on our honey moon we went to the Boise temple. We have also been to the St. George Temple and on our first day in California we went to the Oakland temple. Unfortunately it was misty – so I couldn’t see the spectacular view it must have, but it like all the temples was beautiful. I really like how every temple has its own personality but the spirit that resides there is the same.

After the temple we got checked into our hotel and took it easy (it was a long day for mom-to-be). We ate at a cute local Italian place that was thrilled that we ate all of our spaghetti. We settled in for the night and hoped that the fog would clear for our sight seeing the next day.