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This morning we got up and headed to San Francisco for the day/night. We stared with some donuts this morning and headed out on our way. About halfway there, we stopped for a bathroom break. That bathroom break turned into more than an hour detour because Sean locked the keys in our car!! We were close to an auto parts store, so they let us borrow a slim jim to try to get in the door. However, as we were working the slim jim, a kid shouted to us from his vehicle in the drive through lane: "Hey buddy! Slim jims don't work on Hondas!" This kid obviously appeared to have experience with these kinds of things, so we took his word for it. Just as I was about to break down and call a locksmith, an old man in his beat up Civic motioned to me. He'd been on the phone the whole time we had been trying to get into our car, and when I walked over there, he told me he was on the phone with AAA. He let us use his AAA card and waited with us until the locksmith had opened our doors!! How nice was that!? We offered to get him some food or give him money, but all he said was, "I just want my health man." He said this as he lit up another cigarette! Ha!

As we left the parking lot, driving behind our "angel" Sean noticed that the frame around his license plate said "You just can't fix stupid." Ha! We all had a good laugh... especially when the guy drove up beside us and told us that they license plate was fitting for whoever locked the keys in the car! Touche! We had another adventure when we stopped off the highway to eat lunch somewhere in Oakland. (I later learned that just pulling off the highway somehwere along Oakland was not a good idea.) As we were eating our Subway sandwiches, a guy sitting at a table across from us started stroking his face with a $100 bill and saying, "I'm the money man!" He was clearly talking to Sean and wanting a response, so Sean said "I'm the food man!" It was funny.

One more crazy story from our trip up to the bay: We were about an hour out from San Fran driving on I-580 when I saw a huge semitruck in front of us start to cross horizontally across all 6 lanes of traffic! We were the next car behind him, and as we kept driving forward, the truck began to tip on its side, nearly tipping over onto the cars in front of him. We were in the middle of 6 lanes of traffic going 70+ miles per hour, closing in on this crashing semi! I held onto the door handle and just thought, "Is this it?!" Sean had amazing presence of mind and calmly and safely guided us out of the way of the semi. I was so glad we prayed before we left this morning, as God's angels had clearly protected us at least 3 times on this trip already! It was quite a day.

After about a 5 hour drive (which should have been less than 3), we finally made it to San Fran. It was great fun. We saw China town and hung out on the Wharf. We had dinner at my favorite restaurant, The Crab House and finished the evening with coffee and crepes. It was great and I loved spending the time with David!!