Confession

Ok, so I was at FHE tonight and was having a conversation with my friend about eyebrows. Well really we were talking specifically about this other girls weird eyebrows, no offense to the girl. My friend said she waxes her eyebrows, which many of my friends do. I realized that I really really like plucking my eyebrows. I have never waxed them cus I just really like plucking. I guess I get satisfaction from cleaning them up myself. It is weird I know…I am weird. That is my confession. The end.

San Fran

   So last weekend I was in the lovely city of San Francisco. With all the many times I have been to California, I had never been there. So two friends and I hopped a plan and spent 4 funfilled days roaming the streets.  I don't want to necessarily bore you with all the details, but I will give highlights.

   We flew in thursday night and got settled into our hotel The Opal, which was very pretty and in the center of the city so it was super easy to get everywhere. We then hit the streets to find some grub. We had a suggestion from a friend to go to Annabelle's (at least I think that was what it was called). It was so yummy, but I had to try and not fall asleep in my food since I had worked before flying to Cali. Now walking the streets on our first night was an adventure. Apparently our hotel sat near a few shady streets. But we made it home safely without any homeless people jumping us. The only problem we had was being extremely cold. We had just flown from 110 degrees to not so 110.

    Next day we took the bus to the wharf. And one of the best parts of our trip was the family that gave us their bus passes that they were done using and would still be good for the rest of the trip. Sweet! The wharf was fun, and windy. We walked, talked, ate famous sourdough bread (yum!). We visited a wax museum (to kill time, and it was free), toured the Jeremiah O'Brian which is the last ship around from the storming of Normandy...at least I think they said it was the last. Anyway, it was neat. Then we finally took a cruise around the bay. We met up with our new Scottish friend that we met on the plane. He was visiting a friend, so they came along with us on our cruise. Nice guys. We learned all about San Fran and the Golden Gate Bridge and...that other bridge, I think it's called the Bay bridge. Just shows how much I was paying attention. It was hard to concentrate because it was so cold and windy. And we were laughing too hard.

Saturday we biked along the wharf and the presidio. We stopped at the Exploratorium just to walk around the beautiful grounds. Then we wound our way up the hills to the entrance of the Golden Gate Bridge, biked across that and down, down, down into the quaint city of Sausalito. We spent time there eating, walking, shopping, resting from the many many miles of biking. Then we took a ferry across the bay back to the city. Next we hit up Chinatown. Fun area to explore. We also rode a trolley car. Always a must when visiting San Fran.

   Sunday found us in the Golden Gate Park where we went to the California Academy of Science museum and the de Young art museum and the Conservatory of Flowers. We then went to the Alamo Park where you can see the famous row of houses called the Painted Ladies.

Monday we shopped, walked, and went to Alcatraz. So interesting! I have always wanted to go there. Something about mysterious lone prisons on islands intrigues me. The exciting thing was that you get a free audio tour, so you really do get to learn everything that went on there. Like did you know that the workers (warden, guards, etc.) lived on the island with their families. The kids played around the grounds and took a ferry everyday to the city for school. Apparently it was great! So some of the buildings on the island were apartment complexes and houses. One women who grew up there was even at Alcatraz that day signing books she has written about the prison's past and her experience as a child there.

To top off our trip, our plane was cancelled. We were to fly home Monday night, but couldn't until Tuesday morning. I wish this meant that we had more time in the city. But we just stayed at a hotel close to the airport and watched movies and ate room service.

In all it was a blast!! I love the hilly streets and interesting houses. It was perfect weather the whole time except for the afternoon time when it would get windy. We saw interesting places, interesting people, public urination, public nudity, and the list goes on and on. And each one of us had some kind of compliment given to us from perfect strangers. Mine went like this... I was waiting to cross the street when I notice out of the corner of my eye a good looking guy walking towards me on the right. He starts talking, and I realize 'oh, he's talking to me.' Man: "Look at you all tall and pretty. Hi-Five." He then really did put up his hand to give me a hi-five, and then he just kept on walking. It was hilarious! Ok so you had to be there. I have been to many large cities, so city life is not new to me. But San Fran was different and unique. I would recommend a trip there to anyone.

Drum roll please...

Ok, so i started this blog forever ago and am just now writing. I didnt' want to write anything or show anything until my blog looked exactly how I wanted it to. I am a bit of a perfectionist. But I am still learning, and then I went out of town, and now I decided I just don't care.
So welcome to my blog. And hopefully to a little snippet into my life and my thoughts. What I hope to achieve in this blog is first to let people into my life more. I am the worst at keeping in touch with friends and family. I apologize for that. So, while I would love to talk to you or visit you or email etc., it might not happen often. So instead you can keep track of me here! Secondly, I hope blogging may help me learn more about myself, what I am thinking and feeling or interested in. I love love love to read, but I myself am not a good writer. Practice makes perfect.
So here it goes...