San Francisco Trip

A couple weekends ago, my roommate and I took a trip to California to go to a friends wedding reception. It was quite a last minute trip:) We decided pretty much the day before that we were going to go. My roommate's awesome dad found us some good deals on plane tickets and then we were off to California! We flew into San Francisco airport. It was so awesome to see the ocean as we were flying in! We took the bart from San Francisco to Oakland where our hotel was. We got ready to go to the reception when we got to our hotel, but there was one problem: the reception was in Danville, and we were in Oakland, and we didn't have a clue how we were going to get there, us being carless and everything. So we decided to take a taxi--we won't even talk about how much THAT cost. Well, we got to the reception fine, and we REALLY surprised our friend who had NO idea that we were coming!

The next day, my roommates dad came to the rescue by renting us a car! I tell ya, this trip was a huge present from my roommate's parents! So now we have this car. It's Sunday, but the ward we were going to attend didn't start until 2:50pm. So we had some time to kill that morning. We just drove around and explored and . . . got lost . . . alot. I think we pulled mored U turns on this one trip than I have ever pulled in my life! My roommate was the driver, and I was the navigator. And my lack of sense of direction equals getting lost. So mapquest told us the church building was about an eight minute drive from our hotel. Well, about two hours later, we finally made it to church. Yeah that's how lost we got. But all was well because we started heading to church a couple hours early because by this time we had learned about our lack of getting directions right the first time. So we were only a little late to church:)

Monday was our trip to the city of San Fran! Holy cow! Some of the roads there are SUPER steep! On some of them, going up felt like I was ascending to the peek of a roller coaster! It was crazy! We went and saw Coit tower, crossed the Golden Gate Bridge, went to Fisherman's Wharf, got some chocolate at Ghirardelli's, played in the sand and water, went to Chinatown, and more!! It was a really fun trip! After a fun day in San Francisco, we headed back to Oakland, packed up our bags, and were off to the airport once again, this time homebound! It was a fun trip and quite a new experience!