We lived in a garden's heart And opened it up for the sky The world spun itself away But I was coming alive by your side

On Saturday, my cousins and I took my cousin's kids to Golden Gate Park. It was one of the most fun days I had had in ages.

I hadn't been to the Botanical Gardens in AGES, but I know that if you go before a certain time it's free (we got there in the afternoon, so it wasn't free), much like the other gardens in Golden Gate Park. I want to patronize the parks as much as possible, but sometimes it gets to be a lot.

As I was putting my hair up for the day's adventure, it hit me that I graduated high school 20 years ago this year.

The San Francisco Botanical Garden (which used to be called the Arboretums) is a giant garden of 55 acres (even though I literally have no idea how to gauge how big an acre is lol) that represents different flora from all over the globe. Almost all geographic regions are well represented, and it's just a fun little trek around the world through the land of plants.

I told her to smile nicely for me. This is what she did.

The beautiful sisters.

There are signs all over the parks with coyote warnings, that have been ramped up since a kid was bit last year.

We then took the kids to Strawberry Hill:

The Counsel will decide your fate.

It was such a nice outing and the kids really had a lot of fun. There were many people on dates in the Botanical Gardens, and we managed to crash/ potentially ruin every single one with our silliness and laughing. Oh, well, it's good for them. :)