Snyder-Family: Fisherman's Wharf

Monday, August 11, 2008

Fisherman's Wharf

Lombard Street. Fisherman's Wharf guy pounding nail up nose

Seals at Pier 39 on Fisherman's Wharf. Tyler and Jackson trying to perfect the pigeon kick

Angi enjoying a bite of heaven cupcake from Ghirardelli Square

Notice the hoodies on everyone. Apparently, San Francisco is the same temp year round, COLD! Someone should introduce this poor city to Summer. People were actually walking around in wool pea coats in August!!! Everyone knew we were tourists because we had on shorts and flip flops. If I lived there, I would move somewhere warm for the summer and move back for the winter when it is tolerable.

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WELCOME TO HOLLAND by Emily Perl Kingsley

I am often asked to describe the experience of raising a child with a disability – to try to help people who have not shared the unique experience to understand it, to imagine how it would feel. It's like this:When you are going to have a baby, it's like planning a fabulous vacation trip – to Italy. You buy a bunch of guidebooks and make your wonderful plans. The Coliseum. Michelangelo' s "David." The gondolas in Venice. You may learn some handy phrases in Italian. It's all very exciting.After months of eager anticipation, the day finally arrives. You pack your bags and off you go. Several hours later, the plane lands. The flight attendant comes and says, "Welcome to Holland." "Holland?" you say. "What do you mean, Holland? I signed up for Italy. All my life I've dreamed of going to Italy."But there's been a change in the flight plans. They've landed in Holland, and there you must stay. The important thing is that they haven't taken you to a horrible, disgusting, filthy place full of pestilence, famine and disease. It's just a different place.So you must go out and buy new guidebooks. You must learn a whole new language. And you will meet a whole new group of people you would never have met. It's just a different place. It's slower-paced than Italy, less flashy than Italy.But after you've been there awhile and you catch your breath, you look around and you begin to notice that Holland has windmills, Holland has tulips, Holland even has Rembrandts.But everyone you know is busy coming and going from Italy, and they're all bragging about what a wonderful time they had there. And for the rest of your life, you will say, "Yes, that's where I was supposed to go. That's what I had planned."And the pain of that will never, ever, ever go away, because the loss of that dream is a very significant loss. But if you spend your life mourning the fact that you didn't get to Italy, you may never be free to enjoy the very special, the very lovely things about Holland.

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Monday, August 11, 2008

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