Cam (who isn't a high goal scorer and plays a much better defensive role) came flying out of the gate during a shift change and caught the other team by surprise with a one-on-one against the goalie and took a shot, missed, and scored with the rebound. It's only his 7th goal of the season, but man was he excited (it's also the first goal for the entire team of the day). He walked away with the one goal and also an assist, and had a great defensive showing as usual.
San Francisco certainly isn't the furthest we've driven for a tournament, but we don't find ourselves in the City very often, so we decided to attempt to make a day of it. What we didn't know, was today was completely and absolutely cursed, and it started with an omen.
After the games (four of them) were finally over, we headed to Costco for a very cheap hot dog lunch.
The omen, as I've come to realize, was when I went to pour myself a delicious Pepsi from the fountain drink stand. Well first, the ice was out of order. And then I realized, there was no Pepsi. There was Pepsi Zero, and Diet Pepsi, and Diet Mountain Dew, but no regular soda anywhere.
Just what the heck is going on?
I had no idea at the time, but apparently this is an actual thing in San Francisco, where there is some kind of sugary drink tax and so Costco decided to do away with regular soda.
Come on. If I feel like sinning, let me sin all the way. I don't order a soda to get a sugar free completely disgusting Pepsi Zero. I want all the sugar, all the caffeine, all the time. Judge me somewhere else.
Remember that scene in Inside Out where "Anger" yells about the broccoli pizza? "Congratulations San Francisco, you've managed to RUIN pizza!" I feel like Disney-Pixar was on to something. San Francisco managed to ruin Pepsi too.
So after a botched lunch, we headed to today's destination: Golden Gate Park. We've done the Park before, but since we're due to move out of the area this summer we put it back on our bucket list. We wanted to see the Japanese Tea Gardens, and the Pioneer Log Cabin, Spreckels Lake with the RC sailboats and the model sailboat museum, among just walking around the pretty scenery. It's a weekend and the first nice day in weeks, so the Park was packed. We literally dove into the first street parking spot we could find, a solid mile away from the Tea Gardens. No matter, it's a pretty walk, right?
We walked through a memorial garden and some beautiful grassy knolls and reached the Japanese Tea Garden. I had remembered this as a free little self-guided place, and was perturbed to find out that it was in fact NOT free, it was only free on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays.
Today is Sunday.
Today's budget for sightseeing was $0, so we decided to skip the tea garden (since we've already been there anyways) and come back on a free day. We had so much else to see anyways!
Strike one.
We walked even further and made it to the Pioneer Log Cabin. It's a pretty big cabin, and we were excited to see what it looked like inside.
The Log Cabin is closed on Sundays.
Strike Two.
At that point, we had already walked a mile and a half, and Spreckels Lake was another mile and a half still. But, our little trek into Golden Gate had been so fruitless so far, we couldn't give up, right? We're not quitters! We're going to find adventure! And so off we went through the park, marching along, stopping at little ponds and playgrounds, and finally, FINALLY, made it to Spreckels Lake.
Fun fact: the model boats only run Thursday-Saturday, and the model boat museum had an unplanned closure that day.
Strike Three.
Completely and utterly defeated, we skipped a few rocks into the lake, cursed San Francisco for being Sunday-Haters, and surrendered to the 3 mile walk back to our car on the far side of the park.
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| Calen making a model "barge" out of driftwood |
It was still great family time, and we joked it being a "planned nature walk" in the middle of the city.
But next time, we go on a Friday.
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