So, yay! California! Palm trees and bikinis and sun!
Except, apparently that is only Southern California, and only certain times of the year is it nice in San Fran. I had checked the weather before we left, so the three days of rain and bitter cold shouldn't really have surprised me, but they did. And I didn't pack very well. We ended up with two days of sun at least, which was a nice way to end the trip. On to the photos.
Here is a picture of the inside of the airplane. I only put this up to show the cool pink/purple lighting. Really.
Being cold all the time makes me tired.
Adam (our wonderful host who let us crash at his apartment for three nights), me, Amy, and her sister Gina who came down from Redding to hang out:
Scharffen Berger Chooooocooooolate Factory tour! Here's a machine grinding nibs. Mmmm. Nibs.
Those are tubes, tubes full of chocolate! overhead.
Our last two nights we moved to a hostel. Besides being surrounded on all sides by strip clubs and porn shops (and having the most miserable mattress I've ever slept on), the Green Tortoise was pretty rockin. Siobhan (from Ireland, on her first few nights of a year of traveling ) was also staying in our room and became our third partner in crime for the next couple of days.
This picture is blurry. I know.
Me, looking like a huge nerd in the bike helmet Amy made me wear, and the Golden Gate Bridge:
Alcatraz! (we didn't go) :
Bridge, Me, Amy:
:(
Bridge pictures:
Our new Canadian skateboarding friends at the hostel:
Chinatown!
Best lunch ever at Lucky Creation, a vegetarian restaurant in Chinatown:
Riding the cable car up:
A video of the cable car:
