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Several things to do:

1. Take the boat to Alcatraz Island (former super secure island prison) and look around for half the day. Make sure you get the headphone guided tour which has some great details of life on the "Rock."

2. Take a ferry from the Ferry Building in downtown San Francisco to Sausalito and spend the afternoon wandering around the shops and waterfront with great views of San Francisco.

3. The weather this week is supposed to be a bit cloudy and rainy so maybe look at hitting some museums.

dont your kids go to school? ha.

botanical gardens are beautiful and great for a family visit...

Have to second the Exploratorium and Monterey Aquarium (although the latter is a ~2hr drive from SF). Pier 39 is really not worth it, take them to Ghirardelli square instead. Shame you didn't come the weekend of the 5th - Blue Angels were kicking ass all over the city.

Take 'em to Golden Gate park in SF. Just start exploring it is a great place. Gotta go down Lombard Street (crooked). A cable car ride sounds hokey, but for kids it is fun. The aquarium is fun. If you take them to Pier 39 they will never forgive you. They will be labelled as tourist wherever they go.

Not sure how old the kids are, but Wifey and I did the Waterfront Segway Tour for 2-hours and it was fun.

Stick the wetsuits on and have the family do the Escape from Alcatraz swim. First one across gets to bunge jump off the Golden Gate Bridge.

The Exploratorium is an awesome, fun, interactive museum and kids love it. Try to book an advance ticket for the "Tactile Dome" (see their website http://www.exploratorium.org/).

Also, Pier 39 is a great (but touristy) area. You can see sea lions barking and playing on little docks right next to it. There's also a mini-aquarium that pales in comparison to the Monterey Bay Aquarium, but is still pretty cool.

There's a great strip club on broadway with only asians. let me know if you need directions, i ususlly blog from there..

Half Moon Bay is great. The San Andreas fault runs right through downtown SF; avoid at all costs.

On the way to the Sonoma wine country is the Pumpkin patch and Corn maze in Petaluma. Huge family gig now through Halloween. Also, Raiders vs. Chiefs in Oakland, Sunday, 10/21.

Monterey Aquarium and the Pumpkin Patch at Half Moon Bay.

Of course you go take them to Napa and introduce them to some very nice Merlot :)

Take them to Haight-Ashbury to scare the living shit out of them :)