Playing hooky

Jake and I took quite a detour on our way to daycare this morning. I thought I could get away with playing hooky from work since most of my coworkers are celebrating Diwali (turns out I was wrong, but that's a different story) so I decided that while I'm still mobile, I wanted some one-on-one time -- a full day -- just Jake and me. He asked if we could "go on an adventure." After me asking "what, put your pants on?",  I got what he was saying, and it was persuasion enough to pass up Happy Hallow and venture off the peninsula for once. I remembered when Jeanne, Mike, Jack, and Allie visited 7 years or so ago, and we went to the Bay Area Children's museum in Sausalito. It sits in Fort Baker, right at the base of the Golden Gate bridge. I hit the jackpot, if I do say so myself, because Jake just LOVED it. It's a great little "museum" that's set up in old military barracks. It's like it was made for Jake - dump trucks, train tables, boats, and lots of things to climb. When we had to leave, he cried, and not a bratty no-I-don't-want-to-leave cry, but a heartbreaking sob that actually had me thinking that maybe we would just stay there until it closed, or longer! But I talked him into going to see "the big bridge"to get him out of the museum and we got these pictures of him admiring it. I also got him excited to drive over it (he slept on the way up) so it wasn't a total tearful goodbye. Despite finding a bunch of frantic "where are you?" emails from work, it was totally worth it, and I'm hoping the two of us can get in a couple more playdates before January.