San Francisco family-friendly museums

San Francisco is full of great museums for your family to enjoy. Here are some of my favorites:

California Academy of Sciences
55 Music Concourse Drive, Golden Gate Park
The recently-reopened California Academy of Sciences is in one word phenomenal. It is located within Golden Gate Park, and is home to an aquarium, a planetarium, many natural history and science exhibits and more. Most extraordinary of all, the roof of the California Academy of Sciences is actually a living roof with California native plants and a drainage and daylighting engineering system!

de Young Museum
50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive
Golden Gate Park is home to another great museum, the de Young Musuem. The building itself is architecturally beautiful and the collection of contemporary art is fantastic as well.

Exploratorium
3601 Lyon Street
A second great science museum in San Francisco is the Exploratorium, located in the Northern part of the city. It holds many exciting exhibits that explore science with a hands-on approach.

Aquarium of the Bay
The Embarcadero and Beach Street
To enjoy marine life you can head to Aquarium of the Bay on Pier 39. Some highlights include the touch pool and the tunnels that take you directly underneath the San Francisco Bay. Don't be surprised if you see several sharks lurking around the Bay!

Zeum
221 Fourth Street, San Francisco, California
Finally, Zeum is a great place for children to enjoy hands-on activities, like making their own music video, designing digital art, or making their own claymation film.

As you can see, there are many great museums to enjoy with your family!

Fresh recipe of the month: Blueberry muffins

With all the fresh blueberries from our yard, we decided to make a batch of blueberry muffins.

- 1/2 cup butter

- 2 cups flour

- 1 cup sugar

- 2 eggs

- 1/2 cup milk

- 2 teaspoon baking powder

- 1/2 teaspoon salt

- 2-1/2 cup blueberries

- 2 teaspoon sugar (for topping)

- 1 teaspoon vanilla

Cream butter and sugar and add eggs. Sift dry ingredients and add alternating with milk. Mash 1/2 cup berries and stir in. Add the rest of the berries whole. Pour in muffin pans and sprinkle sugar on top. Bake for 30 minutes at 375 degrees F. Cool for at least 30 minutes.

Jack- the newest addition to our family!

Jonathan William Gosse (better known as Jack) arrived last Monday evening (June 14th), weighing 7 lbs 15 oz, and measuring 19.5 inches long.