The California Side Trip - Continued...

 Not much to report in terms of pics or events, until today.

We stayed in hotels some days, some days we were hosted by my brother Carlos and his lovely bride Ling.  

The daily routine after breakfast was a mid-morning visit with my folks, lunch prepared by my mother and then returning to one's lodgings after taking the folks out on errands they wanted done.  Pretty exciting stuff: Costco Runs, shopping, small Korean Market nearby....

Today we left the above behind us and are overnighting in Emeryville, CA in preparation to picking up Thing One: Patrick at the Oakland airport tomorrow.

So, some pics from today:

The morning event was meeting up with my sister Ana for lunch in Emeryville.  The location was the restaurant where Martha and I had our wedding reception almost 28 years ago:

Views from the restaurant's grounds

That's Alcatraz in the foreground of the Golden Gate Bridge

The restaurant's frontage

Pricey Seafood

Lunch was several dim sum dishes, nothing too weird or fancy, but it was very tasty.

After lunch we said our goodbyes to Ana who had to return to work.  We then headed up north a few miles to the Rosie the Riveter National Historic Park visitor center:

Lots of historical pictures obviously but only this one really caught my eye:

The Kaiser Shipyards in Richmond, CA built 757 ships during WWII!  Pretty impressive.  Most of them were the Liberty/Victory merchant ships used to carry war materiel and men overseas to the war zones.  One of them, the Red Oak Victory, floats nearby as a display/museum.

It's a large park with lots of retrofitted commercial venues using the real estate.  It was a short drive to Pier 3:

The ship is only open to the public for a few hours on Friday so no touring today by us.

After we checked into our hotel for tonight, we drove out to the nearby Pixar Animations Studio campus.  You can't get in without a visitor pass under an employee's sponsorship but the guard gave us directions to a viewpoint through the fence for this: