Crazy Wheeler Par-tay Weekend: San Francisco Style

It's taken me forever to blog about this, but I think that it was an experience well-worth remembering. On May 1st my cousin, Jed, got married in Vallejo, which is up in the Bay area. So, my parents, Daniel, and I planned on driving up there for the weekend and then coming home...no biggie. As it got closer to the date, Nancy, and David, Wiss, Joey, Aaron, and Cy decided to go too. We were way excited that SO many family members would be there. Then, Diane decided to fly in to be with the rest of the family too. Awesome! It was amazing that the whole family got to be there. Lots of cousins were there too, which made it even cooler! We all stayed in the Beverly Heritage hotel, which was...interesting and it was an overall great weekend!

The wedding was Saturday afternoon outside of the Vallejo Community Center... followed by lots of family pictures:Awwww! I love my family! It's ALL of us together!
My nephews with my cousin, Kristi's kids
And then there was the reception...Here's a shot of my siblings and me

And here's what happens when a bunch of Wheelers try to take a cousin picture:

HAHA!!! We may be crazy, but I wouldn't have it any other way! : )

Another amazing aspect of this wedding? THE KILTS!!!This is the groom in his kilt with my brother and nephew. When it was time to exchange rings during the ceremony, my cousin opened up that pouch and dug 'em out. It was awesome!
This is my cousin, Brad, and Uncle Richard (in our very own Campbell plaid) having a duel...

Then there were THE DAGGERS:
I would also like to add that you haven't truly seen a wedding cake (or in this case a tiered wedding brownie...yum!)be cut until you have seen the groom pull a sheathed dagger out of his sock to cut it with. True story.

After the reception, we drove around Vallejo a little bit to see the neighborhood that my dad lived in when he was a little kid, which was cool, and then we headed to San Francisco. We got to drive across the Golden Gate Bridge (my 1st time ever!) and it was way more impressive that I thought it was on my last trip to San Fran.
Look closely at this next picture. Notice the crisis counseling phone on the left side of the picture:...and for the record, there WAS a jumper holding on to the side of the bridge as we drove across. Fortunately, a nice policeman was helping him out.

Next we went to Golden Gate Park, where we saw some cool stuff, a seagull tried to kill me, and where we used the world's grossest bathroom...good times! hahaHere I am hiding from said seagull
The family chillin'
The bison...we actually saw 3 of them
This is where we ate dinner. I refer to it as "7 raviolis for $15". Afterward, we went to Boudin's Bistro and got some delish fresh sourdough bread. Then, we called it a night and went back to the hotel, since we would have to wake up super early the next morning to come back and go to Alcatraz.
Aaron said he was too tired to walk and asked me to give him a ride, so I did. Here we're waiting in line to get on the boat.
The ferry ride over to the island was pretty cool and we got an awesome view of the city an the island, both, from out in the water. 3 of my favorite little men and me
Finally on Alcatraz
Behind bars...I look like like a thug, right?

My family together on AlcatrazThis was truly an amazing vacation. Short, but awesome! I love my family so much and could not have asked for a better one!