If you're going to San Francisco ... (Part 2)

... be sure to wear some flowers a giant pink bow or purple tiara headband in your hair.  (Sage advice from Maya and Scarlett.  Emma's sage advice:  when your sister and cousin look directly at the camera and strike a ridiculous pose at the same time, hide and hope nobody notices you're with them.)

Day number two, park number two.

Holding hands and taking in the city on the way to lunch.

Next stop:  the zoo!  Riding the train.

Cruising in the safari "Jeep" wagons.  I'm embarrassed to say that we accidentally grabbed/stole/Jeep-jacked the wrong wagon after riding the train and were busted by the victim when we were leaving the zoo and turning in our wagons.  I'm not going to point any fingers, but let's just say that the culprit's name rhymes with "Fifi" (or "Flydia", depending on who you ask).

Max checks out the polar bear.

Emma takes a snack break.

Posing on the bronze California grizzly bear statue.  (Note that the California grizzly of California-state-flag-fame does not, in fact, have five legs, nor does he wear a shoe on one of them.)

There are various animal renderings on a long wall at the zoo where you're supposed to stand there for a photo while you pretend to be that particular creature.  Here's Maya being some kind of giant spider.  (My guess is that Emma is in this picture to try and save Maya from the giant spider, not to willingly be photographed.)

Maya being a gazelle (?).

Maya being a peacock.

Scarlett refused to participate in any of the photo ops until we had moved past them.  Then she suddenly decided to do it.  But there were no animal pictures around for her to "be."  So here's Scarlett being a fence (note the foot lifted for dramatic effect).

This picture makes me laugh every time I see it.  It was taken in a photo booth, which takes several shots and then lets you pick your favorite to get printed on your zoo-themed background of choice.  This is the second photo, after Scarlett and Maya got a look at the first one that was taken and cracked up (for good reason, although I still can't decide if the look on that lemur's face is hilarious or downright terrifying; it's like he can see directly into your soul and isn't really sure that he likes what he sees).  Anyhow, Emma is hiding her face (that's her hair on the far right) because, well, photos are for suckers.  Max is not so much hiding as he is just sitting there out of the shot with absolutely no idea what's going on, probably wondering why in the world we shoved him into a tiny dark room where a bright light keeps flashing in his face every 10 seconds followed by a torrent of giggles.

San Francisco is exhausting!