New Woot Site
There is now a shirt.woot. I'm not convinced this idea will take off... jellyfish is still more captivating, but I'll keep my eyes out for some goods shirts anyway.
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July 25, 2007
July 24, 2007
My Simpsons Avatar
July 23, 2007
New Weight Loss Method or a Joke
It has to be a joke, there is no way this is real. Check out the new dental implant that makes you eat painfully slowly, in order to lose weight.
The End
Yep, I read the last installment of Harry Potter yesterday. Don't worry, I won't spoil it for any of you that haven't read it and think you might. Overall, I think it was a good ending. I knew deep down that it would end the way it ended, so I'm glad I wasn't disappointed. (Now that has you confused if you haven't read it, doesn't it?) Thinking ahead to the movie, I think if the person who directed the 3rd Lord of the Rings movie gets to direct the movie for this book, it will be incredible.
I have more thoughts about the book, but don't want to ruin it, so if you're finished reading let me know.
July 6, 2007
Day 5... the longest day ever
When Day 5 arrived, we had almost done everything we wanted, except go to Haight-Ashbury and Golden Gate Park, so we set out early figuring we'd be done early. We hopped on the bus and took it as far as we could to Haight, then followed our handy-dandy pocket map to get there. The first thing we saw after the street sign for Haight was Amoeba records. We walked in and I think Jason found Heaven. We spent a little while there, I'm sure he'll blog about it in detail, then we went to find some food. We walked down the main drag in Haight, which is filled with high end shopping, small hippy stores, and little restaurants. We decided to eat at a small brewery. I'll yelp the review later. After, we stopped in a few shops on our way back to Golden Gate Park.
We were thinking about renting bikes to go through the park, but the map made it look about a max of 2 miles long, so we decided just to walk it. We got into the park and found that our map was totally wrong about the streets in the park. Well, not exactly wrong, but not right. Most of the streets weren't on the map, so we walked in a couple of circles to begin. After a while we stumbled upon the Japanese Tea Garden. That was pretty cool, we stopped and got some tea and cookies. They were all very delicious.
After the tea garden we got back on the path, we finally got on one that ran parallel to the edge of the park so we knew we were headed in the right direction. Our ultimate goal was to get to the pacific ocean. Since I've never seen the pacific, I wanted to put my feet in it. So, we walked, and walked, and walked. Apparently I didn't realize the map was a different scale on the Golden Gate Park side. The entire map was 1 inch = .5 miles, until the park. The park is 1 inch = 1.33 miles. So basically we walked 3.5-4 miles and finally found the pacific ocean. The crazy San Fran fog rolled in so I didn't get a great shot of the ocean, but I definitely stuck my legs up to my calves in it and it was cold!!!
Here's some crazy fog rolling into the park:
The temperature also dropped about 20 degrees, so after my pacific ocean experience, we found a bus stop and rode it back to the hotel to change. Then we headed to Pier 39 to get some food at the Crabhouse. By this time it was already about 10pm. So much for our early day. At the Crabhouse we got their specialty... the Killer Crab! It was awesome. It was by far the best dungeoness crab we had while in San Fran.
Fireworks at Fisherman's Wharf
Well, it was certainly the coldest 4th of July we had ever experienced. It felt more like fireworks for New Year's than July. We walked down towards the Hyde St Pier because everyone said that was a good place to watch. It turns out they set off fireworks right by the Hyde St. Pier and Pier 39, so we watched from a pier right in between those two. That allowed us to see them on both sides. Unfortunately, they didn't turn off the lights on the pier, so we didn't get the ideal atmosphere, but the fireworks were really good anyway. Here are some highlights!
Here is an upside down smiley face!
July 4, 2007
Notable Moments
I forgot to mention a few things in the past few blogs.
1. While in Napa, our fellow tour-mates were lesbians. That's not notable itself, but each had children of their own. I hypothesized that they were having a weekend affair without their husbands.
2. Our Napa tour driver has met and played music for Dane Cook. He also told us that we can walk all over the city, but DO NOT walk through the neighborhood called Tenderloin.
3. On the way to find the Museum of Modern Art we walked directly through Tenderloin. We didn't know where we were, but we knew that we did not belong. We walked about 35 miles per hour to get out of that place. (speeds are approximated)
4. There are lots of confused young people here. There are many girls dressed as boys dating girls and boys dressed as girls dating boys. Just be gay, it's cool, lots of other people are gay here and they don't seem confused.
5. There are more homeless people than DC and they beg more. In DC they sleep a lot or just sit on the street looking at you. Here they all come up to you, they wander through restaurant patios, and they try their hardest to get your money.
Day 4 on the 4th
Today's highlight was taking the ferry over to Sausalito and hanging out in the seaside town, those pics are posted. There aren't too many pics for any of you getting bored with my obsessive nature of taking 50 shots of the same things :) Now we're relaxing in the hotel before heading down to the wharf to watch the fireworks.
Happy 4th of July and Happy Birthday Jason and Brandon!
Day 2 and 3 in San Fran
I'm not going to go into the details because I'm too tired to remember them all... So, I've posted a bunch more pictures on flickr to give you a picture tour of our trip. To give you a brief overview though, yesterday we did Napa and Chinatown (make sure to look for the kama sutra statues picture, they make me laugh) and today we walked all over town, went to Niketown, the Museum of Modern Art, and saw Tranformers. The three of those go together, right?
Once I get a little more time, I'll review the restaurants we ate at too. Boudin Bakery was good for breakfast... They claim to have invented sourdough, so you pretty much can't get any other kind of bread around here. That's the veggie scramble I ate below.
July 1, 2007
San Francisco
Here we are in sunny San Francisco! We are staying at a Hilton in Fisherman's Wharf, so we are within walking distance of most of the touristy spots.
Today we did as much tourist type stuff as possible. We started out by exploring Fisherman's Wharf and Pier 39 and grabbed breakfast at a bar & grill on pier 39. After breakfast, we noticed a tall building that looked like it has an observation deck, so we hiked up to it. It is called Coit tower and has an awesome, unobstructed, 360 degree view. It is 260 feet tall and shaped like a fire hose nozzle.
After the tower, we hiked up Lombard St to the curvy, crazy street section. I'm pretty sure only tourists drive on it, but it's a really pretty street. I'm also pretty sure my butt is going to hurt tomorrow from hiking up such steep streets! (side note: I was reading about the San Francisco women's marathon.. yeah, seriously, this marathon would be nuts!)
Next we went to Ghirardelli square and bought chocolate (of course) and cupcakes from Kara's Cupcakes. Jason got a delicious Java cupcake and I got banana caramel. They were awesome. Afterwards, we stopped into McCormick & Kuleto's for a drink at the bar. It is the same restaurant as McCormick & Schmick's, but Kuleto designed this one, so they let him put his name on the place. Next we took a walk on Hyde St Pier, then walked back through Fisherman's Wharf to get back to the hotel. Take a look on flickr (both mine and Jason's) for lots more pictures! We'll continue posting pics through the week if we have time!