We spent a weekend in San Francisco for fathers day, to celebrate my dad. His two favorite teams (Yankees and Rockies) were in town playing the Athletics and Giants, so we did something rare, and ventured north to see the two games. Now, I did make a stipulation for the trip and said we had to visit the Walt Disney Family Museum before Saturday's game in Oakland. Not that it was much of a stipulation, because the entire family loves Disney and the amazing history behind it. But, here's some of the shots from the weekend!
She's an angels fan, but still supports the pinstripes!
Presidio has some beautiful buildings.
The temporary Mary Blair exhibit is nothing short of amazing.
Girly hard hat is girly.
I didn't realize just *how* much Walt loved Mary's work. He's been on record numerous times saying she was his favorite. For good reason, too!
Now for the Walt part of the museum!
The type of truck Walt drove when he was in the army (remember, he faked his age to do this. How 'bout it for patriotism, right?)
Walts' grandad's violin. They really did their homework with finding and collecting all of this material.
This was ingenious. The instruments on the table were synced up to the video on the screen, and guests could try to sync up the music with the short film, just like how they did it back in the day. I can attest, this is the hardest thing to do. It really is an amazing thing to see how hard they worked to sync the sound with the short films.
Multiplane camera. Definitely a highlight to see such a brilliant piece of film technology.
Hannah really soaked in a lot of the audio pieces around the museum. Families, this is actually a fairly kid-friendly museum. It's not just all history and facts. There's a good element of fun for the young ones.
Touch screen with short clips about the films Walt worked on.
There's also a beautiful view of the bay and the bridge, too.
And the model of Disneyland with all of Walt's ideas. I loved that they didn't just have a model of Disneyland, but an idealized concept of the ideas he had, and some that either look different than today, or just aren't there because they never made it to conception in the park.
Why can't Autopia cars look this cool today?
Audio-animatronic body.
This room. The last one in the museum. Most of the time you don't hear much of Disney talking about Walt's death. It's a hushed topic that he was a smoker, and died because of it. But the museum is wide open about it at the end. There's audio from the Sherman Brothers, Marty Sklar, X Atencio, and more, that speak of where they were when they heard that their beloved leader had passed. It's sad, but somehow at the same time, beautiful and poetic.
Another shot of the multiplane camera from inside the gift shop.
And now onto the rest of the weekend...
Lunchtime at the Wharf.
What up, Paul Blart(s)?
Game one!
Not sure if anyone watched the game on TV, but these stadium lights went out in left field for just about thirty minutes and they delayed the game because it would 'hinder their ability to see the ball'. C'mon, you get paid millions of dollars to play baseball, and you can't see the ball in left field when it's hit because a few dozen lights are out? Go back to the sandlot, boys and see how it is to play with only streetlights!
Dad with his oldest and youngest.
The captain!
Work it, Jeter!
Game two!
I think they're a fan...
Met up with the Paulus family too! Good friends from the central coast.
Dad and I decided to walk around and check out the stadium. AT&T Park is really one of the coolest stadiums on the west coast. Great atmosphere, cool location, and good ballpark food. The Coliseum on the other hand...well, there's a reason there isn't more photos of it from the trip. It's a concrete pit. That's all I've got to say about that.
Family photo!
Me and Nan <3
Since it was fathers' day weekend, we were able to walk the field, and dads with kids 14 and under could run the bases! So dad and Hannah jumped on the opportunity!
On the field!
And she's off!
Dad soaking in the views from ground-level.
Hailey and I drove up a day after my parents and sisters got there, so on the way back, we drove over the bridge and into Emeryville to see the famous studio...
I wish we could have gone inside and checked it out, but soon enough, I'll be able to go in for work!
All in all, it was a great, fast paced and fun weekend. We don't get up North a lot, but when we do, it's a lot of fun. Can't wait to go back!
