Monday, March 30, 2015

Guess who I ran into

Saturday,  Mar28th

THOUGHT:  "THE ONLY WAY ON EARTH TO MULTIPLY HAPPINESS....
                                IS TO DIVIDE IT!"                                                Paul Scherer

Saturday started early.  I had a meeting at 9 am on the temple grounds regarding an upcoming conference for service missionary doctors all over Mexico.  We tried to identify missions where we need to call more help and reviewed the ones to be released.  I have about 5 service missionaries I told that they won't be released until the millennium.  The small committee that helps me is so valuable, so dedicated.  I don't think I could do this without them.  From there we drove for 45 minutes in Mexico City traffic and arrived at the CCM (MTC for those who don't speak spanish.)  I spelled the doctor there - normally there are two but we are waiting for the replacement of the Latin doctor - he comes first of May.  It was quiet except for an elder with a Pilonidal cyst (fond memories Scot?)  He will need surgery.  It took us an hour to get home (CCM is in the north of town and we live in the west part - in the hills going up the mountains on the west side of the city.)  We had the car washed (45 minutes of polishing and scrubbing for 50 pesos (about $3.50) and it rained and ruined the wash job.  Back home Peg joined the other sisters to watch the women's conference while I when shopping with Elder Sandberg.  Returned home just in time for laundry Saturday.

The other day when we drove to the MTC we
saw about 20 bugs so today while we were
driving there Greg decided to take a few pics
of all the bugs!  The problem is it is pouring rain
and only 2 bugs were out today!!!


The beautiful Jacaranda trees in bloom at the MTC!

Sunday, Mar 29th

THOUGHT:  "AND THE SPIRIT GIVETH LIGHT TO EVERY MAN THAT COMETH
                        INTO THE WORLD AND THE SPIRIT ENLIGHTENETH EVERY MAN
                        THROUGH THE WORLD THAT HEARKENETH TO THE VOICE 
                         OF THE SPIRIT"                                D&C 84:46


Sunday started with a lot of anticipation.  I found out that someone I taught 42 years ago was a bishop in a ward about 30 minutes from where we live.  We jumped on the freeway, ran into a main street blocked of for some sort of running race, and made it in time for the opening song.  I didn't tell Bishop Fuentes I was coming.  I tried to call and leave a message on his phone but like everyone - voice mail was ignored.  After the sacrament one of the councilors came down to ask if we were there on official business.  We were sitting so that the Bishop couldn't see us due to the podium.  I told the councilor that I had taught and baptized the Fuentes Cardenas family 41 years ago and he went back to tell  Bishop Fuentes.  He peeked around the podium and smiled.  He spoke for the last 10 minutes of sacrament meeting and told how he initially was not interested in listening to the missionaries (6 members of his family were taking the discussions from me and Elder Dave Brown from Arizona. )  We came for a discussion and he was there and heard me bear my testimony to his brother Sergio and told the congregation that what he felt changed his heart and he started reading the Book of Mormon. He got baptized a couple of weeks after his family and after I had been transferred so I wasn't there for his baptism, but he still tells everyone that I am the elder that taught him the Gospel.  He gave me an update on his family - 3 siblings have died - one quite young.  3 of his younger siblings married out of the church and have only been semi active.  I supported ($80 a month) his sister Marta on her mission - she married a young man from her mission and lived her married life in Matamoros near the Texas border.  She passed away last year.  His older sister Perla also has passed away, as has his mother that I baptized.  He has 4 children - one handicapped son and 3 daughters all married in the temple to returned missionaries.  His father in law has been a sealer in the Mexico Temple and sealed all of his daughters to their husbands.  He has 4 grandchildren.  He has served twice now as bishop, twice as branch president and 7 years served as a councilor in a mission presidency.  How the Lord has blessed this family and how blessed I feel that 42 years ago a young elder got up everyday, studied the gospel, then left the house to spend the whole day searching for people to teach - and found such a wonderful family.  How great has been the impact of this man on his family and on ward members. I have been feeling the joy mentioned in D&C 18.  Tonight we are going to the home of some members of the English speaking ward for dinner with all the 7 missionary couples that live in our hotel - that will be nice.  The coming week will be a little slow - only one Zone conference to present at and supposedly everything shuts down for semana santa (holy week).

So the church is down this lovely street!
You can't see it, but very rough road!

Bishop Fuentes.  Greg baptized his family!

It's a BOY!

Thursday, Mar 26th
THOUGHT:  "FAILURE WILL NEVER OVERTAKE ME IF....
                           MY DETERMINATION TO SUCCEED IS STRONG ENOUGH!"
Today was another mellow day!  Greg had a web cam video conference with Elder Schwitzer  and all the medical people from central and south America.  Plus some of the medical people from Salt Lake.  It was good to hear about the other Areas and what is happening with the missionaries!!!
I had my Spanish lesson with Sister Sandberg at noon!  We then spent the rest of the afternoon working on finding the hospitals in all of our missions.  The records are so out of date we (Greg) has a lot of work to do figuring out which ones we are still using and which new ones need to go on the list!!!   We visited some of our friends here in the hotel and went to bed early!!!



Friday, Mar 27th
Katie was suppose to find out what kind of baby she was having today, but she went in for an exam on Tuesday and found out!  Her sister Lindsey made a cake today and put chocolate frosting on it!  This afternoon the kids got to cut into the cake to see what color the cake was - pink or blue!
Yay blue cake!  Congratulations you guys!  We are all excited for you!
Today has been another bad traffic day!  It took us 1 1/2 hours to get to the temple clinic this morning and 1 1/2 hours to get home.  We were in stand still traffic coming home for a long time.  At our exit (it's always right at our exit) we saw a SUV that had totally crashed.  It looked like it had rolled or fallen off a bridge or something!  There were car parts all over the road so that was the big problem on the freeway today!  We got to hear the good news about having a baby boy in the family while we were in the mess of it all!
We took some chicken and rice that I had cooked in the crockpot over to have lunch with the Smiths and Pococks.  We had a great lunch around 2 pm.  I love those people!
We got home just in time to have movie night with the Andersons.  We had to have it early because the Utah basketball game started at 8:30.  Poor Utah lost by 6 pts.!😫

This is our car wash!
There are little open places with these guys
waiting to wash our car!
Funny thing - the car to the left is all nice and
clean and the guy washing our car is spraying soap
all over it!!!

Greg took this pic because this is what we see all day
when we are driving around!
The trucks are so high you can't see the signs and
therefore miss the turn sometimes!

This is another pic we see every day!
Which way do we go???
Where we are trying to go is never on the sign anyway!!!
We wouldn't be very good at gambling right now
our odds are against us!

Friday, March 27, 2015

Another fun day in Paradise! - 1/4 of mission in the record books!

Tuesday, Mar 24th

THOUGHT:  "THE WAY TO GAIN A GOOD REPUTATION IS TO ENDEAVOR TO BE WHAT
YOU DESIRE TO APPEAR!"    Socrates.

Well, I lied a little!  Paradise for Greg would be an extremely busy day, being on the phone with someone (anyone) that has to do with missionary work!  That does not describe Greg's day today!
On the other hand I got to go with Sister Martineau and Sister Harrison  - who is president and counselor of the English speaking Relief Society!  We went to Lindsay's house (don't know her last name).  We cut baby blankets out of fleece again like I did in December.  We made about 200 of the blankets.  There is a group called the Newcomers.  Not everyone is LDS so it was very fun to meet people that live in Mexico by CHOICE!  HAHA!  Kathy Harrison was telling me she went to deliver the baby blankets to the hospital where there are about 20-30 babies born a day the last time they made them.  The babies were in the beds with their moms and wrapped in towels.  Kathy said when the mom takes the baby home they wrap the baby in newspapers.  Sad!  I think of what we do when a baby is born to our family!  We are so blessed to have been born where we were and how amazing out lives have been.  Think if you were born down here or out in the middle of nowhere.  No matter how bad our day is - it is 10 times better than most down here!!
I got back from our service project just in time to get Greg and walk down the street to the new taco shop we are going to try with the Andersons.  The taco shop was just OK!  We will probably go their again, but not on a regular basis!  We spent the afternoon shopping at Chedraui!  I have complained about this before - I get a recipe off Pintrest that sounds good so off we go to the store to get the ingredients!  Well, not so fast!  I got about 1/2 of the things I need.  I am improvising on some recipes so we shall see how that goes!  I guess I can manage for another 14 months but it would be nice to get a few things that are familiar!  I spent the evening working on a project that is almost done!!!  Let's all pray that Greg has a much busier day tomorrow or I will have to find somewhere else to go!!!
It was a good thing I went to do the service project.  When I got home the dishes were done and I had my 4 month purple roses were on the table!  Good job Greg!!!


Cutting fleece for baby blankets!

Cutting away!


The view out of her living room window!
They live on a cliff!

There are a bunch of baby blankets folded up and ready to go!

The courtyard of Lindseys house!

By her front door!
This is a huge house with brick on the ceiling in the dining room!
Lindsey told us her family is moving from here in a month
to go to Shanghi China for a few years!!!
Her husband works for GM and he works with the OnStar thing!



Wednesday, Mar 25th

TODAY IS THE 1/4 MARK OF OUR MISSION!!! 

THOUGHT:  "EACH DAY PROVIDES IT'S OWN GIFTS!"      Marcus Aurelius

I"m not sure  how we have done for the past quarter of our mission!  I know when this is over we will look back and say whew!  that went by fast!.. What did we accomplish????
Greg has been preparing for his talk at the Mission Presidents meeting in April.  Also, he needs to talk about diabetes in the big medical - service doctor meeting he will be hosting in late May.  So he is busier today than yesterday.  Not to many calls from sick missionaries.  I guess that is a good thing.
I was ironing yesterday and put the iron down on a shirt of mine and it instantly dissolved into a big hole!  ðŸ˜‚  So today, I made Greg go shopping with me (ugh!) to get a new shirt or something.  After 4 1/2 months I am tired of the clothes I brought.  We did go shopping and I was able to find a couple of shirts and skirts to buy!  Greg probably won't take me shopping again any time soon!  He owes it to me due to all of the money I have saved for him since I got here!
Greg found some missionary stuff to do and I made a new chicken recipe for dinner.  I am taking lunch to the Smiths and Pococks on Friday, so I am trying recipes out now!
I went to my English/Spanish class that we have on Wednesday nights!  Some people from the Spanish ward meet with us at the church and we work together on learning languages!  The Spanish speakers help us learn and we help the Spanish speakers learn so it is a win- win deal!  We all have a
good time together and we are getting to know each other!
Got home to watch the Jazz lose to Portland and went to bed!
Nos Vamos!
Tomorrow Scot and Katie find out what kind of little human they are having!  Think blue!!! (but we will take whatever we get!!)

Big hole in my new shirt!
The material is stuck on the iron and gunk on the ironing board!
What is this material???  Plastic??

My purple roses for the 22nd!
I get roses on the 10th and 22nd of each month!

The maid comes and cleans our place -
which is very nice, but they go to wash
the towels and sheets and leave their
nasty carts in our room for hours!
Oh the problems I have!!!!

Monday, March 23, 2015

Quiet Monday! FABULOUS NEWS!

Monday, Mar. 23rd  Fabulous News!!!
This is what we found out last week!!!
YAY!  WE ARE GOING TO BE GRANDPARENTS AGAIN! 
 #11 IS ON THE WAY IN EARLY SEPTEMBER!
Parents: Scot and Katie   Siblings: Abi, Jack and Madi!  
Hope to find out real soon what kind of baby we are having!!
CONGRATULATIONS SCOT AND KATIE!  
WE ARE THRILLED!
(I thought I was in the clear for 18 months for not missing a grand baby birth!)😜😂😃

Whew! Finally I don't have to get up early, shove my toothbrush in my bag and run off to somewhere!  It has been a nice day - lucky me! I got to iron Greg's shirts, clean up around here, catch up on my blog and go visit a less active woman in our spanish ward with Sister Anderson!  Actually 2 sisters, one that was happy to see us and talk to us and the other sister didn't have 3 words to say to us!  Oh well, I probably wouldn't have understood those 3 words any way!!  I am understanding about 40% of what is being said now, but speaking is still very hard and bad!  It was very amazing to go into the Pueblito to see these sisters.  There is a big wall with a little walkway you walk in to.  There are about 15 little nooks and crannies in there where people live!  It's very hard to describe this situation!  I will take my camera next time we visit her and hopefully get some pics!  They have pots full of plants and flowers everywhere to make things look nicer!  I love that!  It reminds me of my wall outside my bedroom window!!!
We had to go food shopping this afternoon!  We haven't been shopping for 2 weeks!  We got home just in time to eat and get to FHE!  The Matas were suppose to give the FHE lesson, but they were stuck in traffic (SURPRISE) and didn't make it!  We watched a little video of "Mens Brains, Womens Brains"  It was very funny!  We played a game and had chocolate cake for dessert and came home!
Greg found some missionary health work to do and I worked on my project!
I took some pics just driving around town.....

Driving around town! - Mexico City!
This is the new suburban with all the big
boxes tied up on top!
We see stuff like this quite often!

This guy selling these things for 10 pesos!
I don't know what they are - cotton candy maybe!!!
He is standing out in the middle of the street
in-between fast moving traffic!

I was actually following the law and waiting at a stop light!
I started watching this guy standing on the corner.
He didn't want to get on the bus, he just wanted to be
a traffic director!  He was pointing at all the buses and
cars and telling them where to go!  Funny!  HAHA!
Te Amo!

Back from a week of travels and HAPPY BIRTHDAY BEKA!

Saturday - Sunday, Mar 21st - 22nd!
HAPPY HAPPY BIRTHDAY BEKA DEAR!!!
Sara's birthday is on the 21st and Beka's is on the 22nd!
Great weekend!

THOUGHT:  "YESTERDAY IS HISTORY...
                        TOMORROW IS MYSTERY...
                         TODAY IS A GIFT!"         Eleanor Roosevelt

 I (Greg) will write in blue so you will know which of us is sane and which is insane.  After being stressed to the max that we would be stuck in the airport in Chihuahua, we made our flight (last ones to board) but that was 10 minutes before the plane was to leave.  We had an uneventful flight and got back to Cuidad de Mexico at quarter to 12.  The Smith's picked us up and we told them we were going to take them to lunch.  We went back to the temple grounds and picked up another couple - the Anthonys - they are stuck in Ground Hog Day - office missionaries for the Cuidad de Mexico East mission and the offices are one floor down from their apartment - they spend their whole lives between floors 1 and 2 in the living quarters on temple square.  We thought they might like to see the outside world.  We went over past the Basilica of Guadalupe (main holy site for Virgin Guadalupe - not sure why they changed Mary's name and made her dark skinned) and found the mall where we ate at PF Changs a couple of weeks ago.  There was an Italian restaurant called Italianni's - Peg and I shared a salad and a dish of Lasagne - we are really getting old here.  But it cost half as much and we were both very comfortable when we pushed our chairs back to leave.  I had to run back to the clinic on temple square while Peg stayed and visited, visited a couple of shops in the mall (This one really could be anywhere in the US and you wouldn't know it) and got more yarn for another project.  We got home about 5, had dinner and had movie night with the Anderson's and Sandberg's. 

Sunday was another nice day - about 78 degrees and cloudy and hazy.  Sister Anderson spoke in sacrament meeting and did a wonderful job.  Once again I was very touched by Elder Salinas - the area 70 who lives in our ward - our priesthood lesson was on personal revelation.  Elder Salinas works for the church in welfare and self-sufficiency and has an office in the area office building across from our hotel.  He is a very prayerful man and a general authority in every sense of the word. He told of a day when just before 9 am in his office (they start here early) before a 9 am meeting that was very important, he got sudden hunger pains.  This was very unusual for him and he went down from the 11th floor (Church has top 3 floors in this large office building) to the main floor where often there is a man with a snack cart outside.  He wasn't there so he turned around to go back in when he saw a young lady (19 or 20) who walked out of the elevator and went and sat down by the exit of the building with a very sad face.  The thought hit him strongly that she needed a job.  He struggled with whether he should say something to her since his meeting was about to begin.  Finally he decided to run back up to his office and get one of his cards.  He came down and introduced himself and told the young gal that as he had walked past her he had these very strong feelings that she needed a job and that he could help her.  She told him she had just been at a job interview on one of the floors of the office building and did not get the job and that she was in very bad financial stress.  She had tears in her eyes when he told her to come up to his office at one in the afternoon.  She came, had a job in a week and now is a member of the church.  To me it was very interesting that the Lord didn't tell him some one might need a job and go downstairs - he may not have listened to that prompting.  He was prompted with a basic need - hunger.  We had the Andersons and the Rices over for Peg's famous meatballs over rice for dinner and played some games (Of course every 10 minutes or so my phone went off - how else can I bug my wife.  We only had one case of appendicitis, a sister missionary with bad asthma who had overused her inhaler and had her heart racing and an elder with diarrhea calling from Cuidad Obregon to ask how you say stool sample in Spanish. - that is my life here in Mexico.
(I will tell you how to say stool sample in Spanish!!!!)  Hang up!!!

Pics from around town - Chihuahua!!
The Indians that live in these parts!
The women and girls wear very full skirts!  Tarahumara Indians

I love these guys that are tying a ladder to the truck
and to the statue so they can do something
on the statue!

Nothing like a truck full of huge pinatas! 

There are a lot of stores with big fancy dresses!

A cool church in Chihuahua!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY HADLEY!
 Lucky you to have Elsa come to your party
on your mom's birthday!








And yet another trip to Chihuahua! HAPPY BIRTHDAY SARA!

Thursday - Saturday, Mar. 19-21st
HAPPY BIRTHDAY SARA ON SATURDAY, MARCH 21ST!
THOUGHT:  "CHARACTER IS THE REAL FOUNDATION OF ALL 
                         WORTHWHILE SUCCESS"         John Hays Hammond

Guess what?  Yep another trip!  Greg needs to learn how to schedule these trips so we are not coming and going so much in one week!  We have been gone since last Thursday when we went to Guad.  We got up early and headed back to the temple to park our car.  The poor Smiths took us back to the airport and we caught a flight to Chihuahua.  President and Sister Chavez picked us up.  The difference this time was that they dropped us off at the Hampton Inn to stay instead of the mission home!  That was nice for a change.  Then there is no pressure to entertain us during down times.  We were able to get settled and get a rest before they picked us up again for the afternoon/evening activities.  We went to lunch across the street from the hotel to Applebees.  It looked and tasted just like good old America!  We then got in the car and drove for over an hour up to a city called Cuautemoc!  President drove us around the city and took us to a Mennonite museum.  That was interesting and we learned a little about this group.  There are 90,000 of them in Northern Mexico.
We then drove to a chapel and had a nice visit with a few zones in the mission.  This was about 6:30 pm.  The missionaries are the same here as everywhere else we have gone - AWESOME!!  We met Elder Goldsberry from the 9th ward.  I grew up with his grandparents - Rick and Annette Curtis so that was very fun to see him!  We took a pic and he will send it to his grandparents.
We stopped at a seafood place for dinner and drove home!  We got home around 11:30 our time and fell into bed.  We had to be up early to meet President Chavez again.  We went to a church in the city (Chihuahua).  We walked in and the missionaries were all lined up and ready for a big pic.  There were probably 100 missionaries there!  I love these people!  Greg did his schpeel and we listened as President taught them a couple of principles.  He then turned the remainder of the meeting over to the AP's and we left to go tour the city!  We drove to Poncho Villas house.  Greg has always had a huge fascination with Poncho Villa!  I will let him tell about this experience.  His house was really cool to see all the old stuff from the early 1900's  I only got in trouble once for taking a pic I wasn't suppose to take.  The guy was kind of yelling at me, but I didn't even hear him since I didn't understand what he was saying so I wasn't listening!!!  Oh well!  I think it's dumb you can't take pics of old furniture and dishes and stuff!  Dumb!!
Poncho Villa - I always thought the Pancho Villa was the one that drove the saints from the colonies in 1913.  In that year he actually was serving as Governor of Chihuahua.  There were some communist leaning revolutionaries that called themselves the Red Flags that were threatening to kill all of the saints in the colonies and the US sent a train to rescue them.  Francisco "Pancho" Villa started as a Robin Hood like bandit who robbed from the rich and provided for the poor.  He was captured in about 1910 at the beginning of the revolution and placed in the army (what they used to do to thieves back then).  He eventually deserted the army and joined up with men who were fighting against the Mexican President Porfirio Diaz (self proclaimed dictator of Mexico).  He was skilled at organizing men, getting money (usually extortion from rich land holders) and working with the US to get guns for his "Northern Army."  He was made a general and actually for awhile was made governor of the state of Chihuahua and in 1914 after a great victory in Zacatecas marched into Mexico City with another General from the South, Emilio Zapata.  The US army actually studied his war tactics - he was felt to be a very shrewd general.  He fell out of favor of the replacement Mexican President Carranza and had his army taken away from him.  He recruited a small army and because the US was not continuing to supply him with guns raided an army storehouse in Columbus, New Mexico to get guns - later chased for many months by General Pershing of the US - who finally gave up when WWI started and he was called back to the US.  He was very wealthy during the beginning of the war (mostly war spoils) and had a large mansion in Chihuahua which was cared for by his widow after his assassination in 1923.  He had worked out an arrangement in 1920 where he was given some land south of the city of Parral Mexico in exchange for him staying out of politics and war.  (Greg will write in Blue from now on)
 So we got out of there and went to a restaurant called La Mansion.  It is a steak house like Ruth's Chris, but not as expensive.  President took us back to the hotel for a rest and picked us back up at 7 pm to go meet service missionary doctors in the city.  They had a good meeting and conversation!  I tried to follow, but they talked way too fast for me!  We got to see a clinic the missionaries can use, which is the nicest I have seen in quite a while!  Then they were all hungry ( I was feeling sick!😫) so we went to a soup and salad place about 10:30 at night!  What's with eating so late every night!  UGH!  I had a little bowl of broccoli soup and didn't even finish it!
President finally took us back to our hotel and we were off the bed!  We had to get up at 5:50 to be ready for our flight on Saturday morning!
We left the hotel at 7:15 in the morning.  Greg thought our flight left at 8:40 but couldn't quite bother to look at our tickets, so when he finally did on the way to the airport, he discovered the flight left at 8:20.  We got to the little airport, which was much busier than the Obregon airport and had to stand in line, which ended up being the wrong line!  Anywho - we finally made it on the flight and made it back to Mexico City in one piece!  The poor Smiths who had dropped us off on Sunday and picked us up on Wednesday, then dropped us off on Thursday and picked us up today!  They will be bored next week because we aren't traveling!  YAY!  We took the Smiths to lunch for all of their efforts.  Greg had to see a few missionaries in the temple clinic and we finally got home around 5 pm.  We ate a little dinner and headed to the Andersons for movie night!  That is after we put our laundry in the washers.  Surprise - no one was using the machines so we took advantage.  Whoopee we won't be up until 11:30 doing laundry tonight!
Happy Travels!


The view out of the car window as we were heading to
Cuautemoc!

A pic of the city of Chihuahua!
It is a nice city with a whole new section!
It is growing and the church is growing here too!

There is a large number of Mennonites in Chihuahua!
This is a museum with farms all around it!

Here we are as Mennonites!
This could be our next mission!!!

A pic of us with Pres. & Sister Chavez

One thing the Mennonites grow are apples.
This is an apple orchard.  The V shaped things are
nets bundled up that they can spread out
if and when it hails so the trees and fruit won't be damaged
There are orchards everywhere with these nets.
The hail can be bad here!

Driving through a Mennonite neighborhood
Looks like a good old Salt Lake home!

and another Salt Lake home on a dirt road!

and yet another!

Then we drove downtown Cuautemoc and back to
the typical Mexican bright blue home!

I love the tent trailer parked out in front of your house!

A pic of the zones we met with in Cuautemoc!

The big zone conference in Chihuahua!
These missionaries are so dang cute!
Look who we met!  Elder Goldsberry!
He is from the 9th ward and I am dear friends
with his grandparents - Rick and Annette Curtis!
Fun!



Finally Greg to hang out at Poncho Villa's home!

This mansion has been turned into a big museum for Poncho Villa!

Pics of Poncho Villa everywhere
along with guns, guns, and more guns!

Good buddies!

The inside courtyard!


One outside wall of this place has a huge mural
about the war Poncho Villa was involved in!

The car Poncho Villa was riding in at 8:30 in the morning
when 8 assassins shot him about 50 times.
They just kept shooting and shooting him!
This is the car after the shooting!
Everything was blown to bits!


Rule #1 in this museum - don't take any pics of the
rooms - which there were a bunch of rooms.  This is
not my fault!  Greg told me to take this pic standing outside
the room looking in!  It is of the dining room table
with an awesome stove way back there in the next room!
I got yelled at for taking the pic from the hallway!
I didn't even know I was in trouble - because of course
I don't understand yelling spanish!!!!
I think it's a dumb rule anyway!
Way shouldn't you be able to take pics of the cool stuff???
My family knows I am always getting tangled up in photo-ops!

A bus that looks like a trolley!
It even says San Francisco trolley on the side there!

Front of trolley!