Jaden and Dads trip to see a 49ers game in SanFrancisco

It was a good father and son bonding trip with Jaden. I had some sky miles that I had to use or lose so I thought I'd take Jaden to his first NFL game. We went to SF because it was close. We stayed at a dive but it was a bed to sleep in and was relatively close to the stadium.
Jaden was a little concerned about the snow on the plane. We had to sit on the tarmac and wait to be de-iced. In the end we were on our way and it was an fairly uneventful plane ride to SF.

We made it downtown to Hyde Street and rode the trolley down to Fisherman's Wharf and had a good time. Jaden thought it was pretty cool to go up and down the roads on the trolley and end up down by the water.
Jaden was hungry so while I stood in line to get on the trolley he went in to Burger King and bought us some fries and a drink.
Although the sun was out it was a little chilly and we ended up buying Jaden a jacket to keep his fat free body warm. He felt much better after that. We wanted to get a little
closer to the Golden Gate Bridge but we only had an afternoon so see the sights in SF so this was as close as we got. Even from this far away you could tell it was very BIG.
They had quite a few live bands playing down in Fisherman's Wharf. We ended up eating lunch at Johnny Rockets and watched a Pantomime and a Magician performing on the street. We also got to see Alcatraz and although it was also pretty far away it was cool to see. They do a triathlon every year down there called escape from Alcatraz. It

would be neat to do it one year. I'm not sure how far it is out to Alcatraz but I'm sure it is much farther than it looks because I remember reading that no-one had ever escaped from Alcatraz and lived to tell about it. It seems to be a very popular tourist attraction as there was a line for the ferry that was really long to get to the island to see it.

Jaden had some fun with these 3 hooligans sitting on the bench. He thought it would be pretty funny and it was as you can see.

Right next to our hotel was Utah avenue and Jaden wanted a picture next to this building. We decided to take a walk down the street the night before the game to take in as much as we could of SF plus we were also very hungry.

We got up real early the next morning and went to the stadium to take it all in. They had a huge tailgating party and there was more food being cooked outside the stadium than inside. There were cars, trucks and motorhomes lined up for half a mile that had tv's food and football games going on. Jaden thought he was pretty cool getting autographs of the 49ers dancers and even got his picture taken with one of them. He didn't know what to say to her so he said "Thanks" As you can see by the picture we were one of the very first people that were let into the stadium so we walked all around and checked out all of the surroundings, found our seats and took tons of pictures. Jaden was grinning from ear to ear and to be honest so was I. What a great experience.

We walked around the whole stadium on the inside and out and were running on a little adrenalin when we got back to our seats for the kickoff.

The game was pretty cool and we watched the whole thing. The 9ers lost to the vikings. Alex Smith did not get to play due to an injury so it wasn't as cool as we hoped it would be.

The traffic was an absolute nightmare getting back to the hotel and we had to cruise to make it to the airport on time to catch our flight home.

Some great memories were made and I hope to do more things like this with all of our kids in the future.