Bring On The CLOWNS

I work for a wonderful airline that was one of the

sponsors for our Oakland Holiday Parade last Saturday.

Myself and some of my family participated in this years parade.
and yes we were allllll CLOWNS...
My grandson Christian is being made up....

He made a great clown.....
he was wonderful shaking hands with all the
children along the 2 mile route....

my grand daughter Nevaeh...she is only 2
and took this make up thing very seriously...

she was a great little clown....

until nape time took over. Grandpa

pushed her in her stroller.....

My little clown slept the whole parade...

and of course Me.....

kinda strange make up for a clown...

and here we all are ready for the parade....

my daughter Kera on the far right is

Mommy to Christian and Nevaeh....

we had a before party in the VIP room....

that day everyone was a VIP....

here we are with the Oakland Warrior Cheerleaders.....

Hubby and I with Miss California....

she was just as sweet as she was pretty.....

and who can forget Bob McGrath of Sesame Street....

a very sweet man.....

all of my children grew up watching him on TV.....

our group clown picture....kinda dark...

but maybe that's a good thing.....

Our float...our cute little T J LUV.....

well as you can see we all made it the 2 miles of

walking, dancing, waving and lots of hugs and smiles

we were tired......

back at my home we tried to blend in

with the Christmas decorations.....

can you pick out the clowns?????

We made another day of memories.....

Happy Holidays!!

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We are off to Disneyland for our Christmas visit..

flying out in the morning will return on Thursday...

Have a wonderful week....

Hugs,

Mo :-)

Christmas in San Francisco

Every year my hubby and I go to San Francisco for the day.

We shop and have lunch....Well this was our day....

Just a few pictures of the beautiful sights in San Francisco....

We bought our train ticket.....$8.10 round trip
Here comes our train......

To San Francisco...
The train ride is about 20 minutes from our station....

The train lets us off at the fabulous Westfield Mall on Market Street....

it just goes round and round with escalators...

Sorry I forgot to count how many floors...

It is a lot......

decorated for Christmas....

more hanging lights.....

This is the rotunda where Bloomingdale's is...

Just fabulous.....

The decorations are amazing.....

top of the rotunda......

we walked up Powell Street to Union Square.....

and of course a cable car...decorated for Christmas....

(my husbands father worked on the cable cars many years ago)

The Fabulous St. Francis Hotel on Union Square....

This Christmas Castle is all made ready to EAT.....

it is located in the lobby of the St. Francis....

Just amazing and beautiful......

Click to read how it was made....Interesting !!!!!

and of course how can we forget Macy's

We had lunch at the Cheesecake Factory on the top of Macy's

and I mean the top...The view is BEAUTIFUL.....

Elevator to the top.....

and here is hubby and I after our wonderful lunch....

and were very FULL......

one of the windows at Macy's......

and more walking...we had to walk off our lunch .....

and of course Neiman-Marcus....

Union Square.....

the flowers smelled amazing.....

ice skating in Union Square......

This is really "How much is the doggie in the window"

The Humane Society puts the pets up for adoption every

year in the windows of some of the stores in Union Square...

there is a little kitty behind the chair.....

everyone wanted to see the animals....so cute.....

and of course Tiffany's

breakfast anyone ?????

store front window at Tiffany's

Market Street....

our day had to come to a wonderful ending....

and so the two tired shoppers took our train home......

Hope you enjoyed your day Christmas shopping in San Francisco

Happy Holidays....

Mo :-)