Introducing Noah to his City

The weather in SF finally makes its departure from gloomy summer and advances toward the  glorious fall. Starting yesterday we were able to see sunlight from our place before noon! So we decided to take Noah out for a stroll, introducing him to his City (hopefully he will get to grow up in this beautiful city that we love so much.)

So where to start? We want to go to a place where parking is easy, plenty of sunlight, good scenery, and has path for stroller to roll.  So i suggested Fort Point, where we used to go in early weekend morning to watch the surfers under the GG bridge.  That was when we were living on Cole street.  Now it means we have to go across the entire city  to get there. But since it is a weekday, we figure the traffic shouldn't be so bad.

During the ride, Noah was sound asleep in his car seat. The city scene flows by in the brilliant sunlight. My mind started wonder: The first time i went to Fort Point w/ ZM; Hitchcock film Vertigo, which had a scene shot at the fence at the end of Fort Point facing the gigantic bridge; and the days when sis and i first arrived in SF, roaming the city w/ a muni pass...

Noah made a little protesting whimpering, which brought me back to present tense. The sun was shinning on his face. so i adjusted the sun shade on the car seat to block the strong light. In the not so distant future, this little baby will grow into a teenager, and he will roam the city on his own, and fill it with his own memory and adventure, then he would leave all that behind and go explore the world, and from time to time, he will think of SF through his own lens of memory with his own sentiments like i am now thinking of beijing...

Meanwhile, here is our very first memory of Noah and Fort Point.

A few photos, too...

Daddy

Mommy

...and Baby