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4th of July fireworks shows and parades in the San Francisco Bay Area, San Mateo, Santa Clara and others nearby locations

Location	Description
Blue and Gold Fleet Pier 41 San Francisco, CA 94133	Fireworks Cruise, Watch 4th of July fireworks from the bay. Fireworks Date & Time: Sunday July 4, 2010. Departs from Pier 41, San Francisco, CA at 8 p.m. Non-alcoholic cruise Departs from Pier 39, San Francisco at 8:15 p.m. Phone (415) 705-8200
Berkeley Marina 201 University Ave Berkeley 94710	Live music, international food, free sailboat rides, decorated bicycle parade, arts & crafts, Adventure Playground. Fireworks at Berkeley Pier at 9:30pm Date & Time: Sunday July 4, 2010. Noon- 10 p.m.
Alcatraz Alcatraz Island San Francisco, CA 94133	Fireworks, Dinner and Dance Cruise in San Francisco- Four-course seated dinner, live bands and dancing and Fireworks Fireworks Date & Time: Sunday July 4, 2010, 6:30pm - 11pm. Phone 1(800)-410-8233
Fireworks Cruise - Alcatraz Excursions Pier 33 on the Embarcadero San Francisco, California CA	fireworks on the bay cruises, $50 Adults (12& up) and $40 Children (5-11) Fireworks Date & Time: Sunday July 4, 2010. Depart 7:30 pm from San Francisco's Pier 33. Phone 415 438-8365
Pier 39 San Francisco 94133	Waterfront Celebration - Live band performances Fireworks Date & Time: Sunday, July 4, 2010, Band performances from 3pm - 9:30pm Fireworks starts at 9:30pm Phone 415-989-7437
Fillmore Jazz Festival Fillmore St. between Jackson & Eddy San Francisco CA	Free live jazz music, arts and crafts, gourmet food No Fireworks Date & Time: Sunday July 4, 2010. 10 a.m.- 6 p.m. Phone (415) 456-6436 Website
Sigmund Stern Grove 19th Ave & Sloat Blvd San Francisco CA	Stern Grove Festival, Patriotic selection of performances by the San Francisco Opera No Fireworks Date & Time: Sunday July 4, 2010. 2 p.m. Phone (415) 252-6252
Leo J. Ryan Park 650 Shell Blvd Foster City, California CA	Pancake breakfast, family parade, arts and crafts, barbecue, games, concert, and fireworks show over the lagoon. Fireworks Date & Time: Sunday July 4, 2010, 8 am - 9:45 pm. Fireworks starts 9:30pm Phone (650) 286-3380
Redwood City Jefferson Ave & Marshall St Redwood City, California	Parade & Festival - Parade theme this year is "The Magic of Green;" winners receive awards and cash prizes. Information Booths, Battle of the Bands, Food and Beverages, arts, crafts, & kids area Kids Activities: Face Painting all day, Skates the Clown and Jump House No Fireworks Date & Time: Sunday July 4, 2010. 9 a.m.- 5 p.m. Phone (650) 365-1825
Sausalito Dunphy Park Bridgeway & Napa St Sausalito, California	Parade, Picnic, Food, music, games all day at Dunphry Park. No Fireworks Date and Time: Sunday July 4, 2010. 10 a.m.- 5 p.m.
Shoreline Amphitheatre 1 Amphitheatre Pkwy Mountain View, California 94043	Featuring the San Francisco Symphony and music from Wicked, Rocky, West Side Story, Peter Pan, Titanic, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Star Wars and many more! $79! Tickets at LiveNation.com Fireworks Date & Time: Sunday July 4, 2010, 8 am - 8 pm.
Firework Cupertino CA	Fireworks begin at 9:30pm. Phone (408) 777-3110, (408) 777-3120
Central Park in Santa Clara 909 Kiely Blvd Santa Clara, California 95051	Breakfast, entertainment, music, carnival games, face painting, swimming, food. Date & Time: Sunday July 4, 2010, Fireworks display at 9:30pm. Phone (408) 615-3140
Southbay 1350 oakland rd. san jose, California 95112

Aquarium of the Bay

A commercial enterprise that never made money is about to become a non profit. The deal has been consummated and now fully owned by The Bay Institute Aquarium Foundation. The $9.5 million deal means the 65,000-square-foot aquarium at Pier 39 will become a non profit center for education and research of the San Francisco Bay ecosystem. Impressive that a deal made in tough economic times, took a tourist trap and turned it into a community asset.

Its now a nature center dedicated to the conservation of the San Francisco Bay. The defunct commercial enterprise still attracts 600,000 visitors a year and now this population will support sustainable research to keep the bay a flourishing and healthy living resource for all of us.

The Aquarium is a huge endeavor, it is 50,000 square feet of exhibition space, including 300 feet of acrylic tunnels holding more than 700,000 gallons of filtered bay water. 20,000 marine life including sharks, bat rays and eels. You can take walking tour through the acrylic tunnels and see marine life all around you. Quite cool.

Partnering up with Monterrey Bay Aquarium, UC Davis and the California Department of Fish and Game, the aquarium will work on fish breeding and aging studies. New programs including a lecture series, marine workshops, tagging and tracking programs, exhibits, classes on pollution, freshwater diversions, fish contamination and species sustainability. This was supported by private loans, donations and municipal bond money......Thank you San Francisco.

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We arrived on the 1st of January 2009 just in time to bypass the Hilton Hotel in the Financial District and to make it to one of our Favorite Restaurants, the Franciscan in San Francisco.

I just wrote about it at our http://iBlog911.com- in fact Wordpress has a plug in for iPhone's. You can then post from your phone and add pictures with ease - I am still having Kinetic Knowledge work on why the pictures are not appearing, but coming into the blog posts as code.

But I am sure they will figure it out.

Read about our experience with Alex, Augustine and Israel at the Franciscan Restaurant in San Francisco that I mobile posted.

Connor with HONOR!

Fisherman's Wharf accessible from downtown San Francisco is a must see area of the City. Getting there you can take busses 9X, 47Van Ness and the world famous Cable Cars. On the way to the wharf some of the cable cars will travel pass the crooked street, also known as Lombard Street to the locals. Bring your camera because you'll need it to take some great pictures.

Fisherman's Wharf is a fun place for young and old. There is something for everyone.

For the children there are many activities offered, such as watching the sea lions take a sun bath and a magic show at Pier 39. They can also ride a carousel.

World famous for its crab restaurants, the crab boats dock at the kitchen entrance of the restaurants. Eat only the freshest crab at some of the best restaurants in the country at the wharf. Boudin's Bakery is still using the same ‘starter' in its sourdough breads as they used when first opened in 1849. The bakery has a large plate glass window with microphone so you can ask questions of the baker as they roll out their bread dough. Ask for the alligator or turtle shaped bread for the kiddies. I personally recommend the clam chowder in sour dough bread bowl if you plan to eat there.

Some of the other activities at the wharf include, bicycle rental for rides across the Golden Gate Bridge, ferry rides to Marin County, Angel Island, Alcatraz and Marin World at Vallejo.

Visit batesrealestate.com for a look at available properties in the area and for other real estate related issues.

As Bugs Bunny used to say “What’s up Doc?” In the newly opened chiropractic office the reply would be “green”, as in green building. Yes, green building continues its march into the homes and offices across America and some doctors realize that sustainable interiors means healthy patients (or at least healthier). Take for instance, the new Executive Express Chiropractic designed by Martinkovic Milford Architects and built by Peacock Construction. A small place to be sure but the designers make good use of space to mention the healthy additions.

When we entered, we couldn’t help but notice the curved leather wall. We even stuck our grills right against the wall to smell the leather. Yep, it smells like leather. It actually is. But the green minded architects didn’t lose their minds, they used EcoDomo, which uses real leather scraps from shoes, and other leather manufacturing facilities, then grind it into shreds. They use water and other natural binding ingredients (mostly natural rubber and acacia wood bark) then eventually deliver them with a sticky peel-off back that requires no off-gassing adhesives.

We never claimed to be interior decorators but we can appreciate the Maya Romanoff paper wall covering that smartens up the treatment area. The covering looks even smarter when considering that it comes by way of stamping rayon fibers on wet wood pulp, which produce an attractive wall covering that displays both texture and depth. The wall covering comes from rapidly renewable materials, particularly Mulberry, and is 100% biodegradable.

The designers added several other green elements including: Benjamin Moore Eco-Spec paint, the treatment room dividers come from the 3-form “full circle” line that uses a form of fair trade for the families in Nepal who helped raise the silkworms to create the striking panels, and even the artwork and mirror framing employs FSC certified wood.

One thing kind of bugs us. The marble countertops and shelves come from EuroStone which create these products from and combo of 90% recycled marble chips and a polyester resin as binding agent. Excluding the resin as a natural element, it’s walking a pretty thin line to claim that using marble chips from quarries would be considered green. If they didn’t mine the resource in the first place then no chips would exist.

Who’s next in the waiting room?