Visit San Francisco

at 11 pm! my boyfriend and i went up last thursday. we left la around 3 pm and drove pretty continuously, stopping twice to get gas and stretch our legs. we made a longer stop to visit some friends in berkeley and didn’t reach our hotel until friday, midnight. we intended to stay until the following tuesday, but ended up extending our stay for another day! we left yesterday on thursday around 1 pm.

i had SO MUCH fun! i expected to do tons of touristy stuff, but my bf’s been there already and we have a couple of friends who live up there, so we took our time and visited one or two places a day. dined in chinatown and japantown, visited the academy of sciences, viewed the tower at the de young museum, traveled to thrift town in el sobrante, visited moma, experienced sketch tuesday at 111 minna st., and made several trips to berkeley and oakland. i have yet to see the golden gate bridge, but i KNOW i will be back! i love the architecture in the city, and am willing to withstand the cold! my bf and i even found a local frozen yogurt place that we frequented three days straight. :)

i kind of gave up my san francisco dream for the time being, cause every time i planned to go, something would get in the way. however, my boyfriend suggested we go on a little trip, and he mentioned wanting to go up north. i immediately shouted that i wanted to go to sf, which he agreed! (he’s already been there at least twice.)

hopefully i’ll be able to go this time!

weekends are off limits, now that i’m working at the library. (i work 6 days a week now.) maybe i can squeeze a trip october, november, or even winter break. it’ll be impossible to schedule something in september because my weekends are pretty full, and it’d be rude to skip work when i haven’t even started yet!

been talking to my friends about this, and august doesn’t seem very promising. cindy’s working now, so weekdays are a no go. both cindy and johanna have jubilee to deal with until the last weekend of august, and i have plans then. however, i realized that since we’ll both be working in september, our weekends should be free since we don’t have homework. also, angela and johanna don’t start school until late december, so we can totally do a weekend trip sometime mid september! (this is great because angela wouldn’t have been able to make it if we did it in august.)

cindy and i have talked this over, and because it’ll be a weekend trip, we won’t be able to stay as long and see as many things, so we’re planning a few more trips back up to sf during the fall! can’t wait. maybe once a month if we’re lucky!

i REALLY want to make this happen. i’ll probably spend just 3-4 days there, but i think that’s enough for my first trip. i want to see most of the tourist attractions, visit museums, eat at cool cafes, and go thrifting! i bet the thrift stores there have amazing stuff…

i’m not asking for much, i just wanna go there!

i’m going to save up, which means i won’t be buying anymore new clothes for a few months. which is fine! i have plenty of clothes.