With AAO taking place in SF this year, we decided to make it a short weekend road trip as a rehearsal for our Hawaii vacation next week. We headed out Saturday morning, stopping by McDonald’s for breakfast before meeting with my friend Jeff and his two daughters at the SF Zoo. Neither the rhino, anteater, or penguin flock seemed to excite Westley as much as the train ride, although he did get a kick out of making selfie videos at the playground. We lunched on yummy beef noodles, tofu salad, and lamb dumplings at the Old Mandarin Islamic before settling into our 2-bedroom Airbnb for nap time. After teaching my course, we met up at the Harvard reception where we dined on the roof garden patio while watching cable cars on the street. Westley’s first night sleeping alone on an adult bed turned adventurous, however, when he awoke at 3am crying for us having inadvertently locked himself inside. We couldn’t reach our hosts by phone and had just rung their doorbell upstairs when he finally managed to let himself out. I spent Sunday morning at the conference while Melody took him to the Farmer’s Market and Koret Playground. Afterwards, I returned to the apartment to share a Pineapple King bun and Yummy Dumplings for lunch, then headed to the Embarcadero in time to see the Blue Angels perform for Fleet Week on the way to the Exploratorium. Here, we opted for physics over biology exhibits for age-appropriateness, then reinforced electromagnetism with bullet-train sushi from Hikari Sushi in Japantown. On Monday, Melody took him on a trolley ride to the Aquarium at the Bay before we met with my residency friends for dim sum at Yank Sing, egg tarts from Golden Gate Bakery, and cream puffs from Beard Papa. Westley napped well on our drive home, but we still felt exhausted after our action-packed weekend. With Melody away for a conference the following weekend, we returned to SF with Westley and my parents for a free visit to Exploratorium thanks to Community Day. Having arrived early, we got a Cowgirl Creamery breakfast sandwich and Dandelion hot chocolate from the Ferry Building to wait in line. After the visit, we waited out the line at Marufuku with some Daiso shopping, rounding out our back-to-back weekend trips to City by the Bay.