We’re back, safe and sound! And I’m celebrating by going to work today.
We had a great vacation in California and enjoyed seeing family while we were there. I want to give updates on our visit, but I think I’ll go backwards and start with our last night, hanging out with my cousin Ryan.
Ryan now lives in Long Beach, which is, of course, where I grew up. Its really cool that he’s so close to my mom and that makes it easy to visit when I come home. Anyway, Ryan’s neighbor had a party on Saturday night and we stopped by for a little bit.
From that night, I have two interesting YouTube videos to share. Make of them what you will!
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Apparently Wordpress has problems with the embedding that YouTube provides, so here are links to the said videos:
So, I was wrong. Its not Wordpress that’s the problem, just the editor I was using. Okay, here ya go.
This first one is a bit long but its worth it.
This one is pretty silly, but apparently the guy takes his work very seriously. He even goes on tours in the UK.
Today was our last day in San Francisco and I think we’ve covered all the bases. We got up kind of early and walked over to Fillmore Street, which is known best for its night Jazz scene. John Lee Hooker’s “Boom Boom Room” is there, along with a few other well-known clubs and restaurants. We had breakfast at the Grove and then caught the bus to head up to Lombard Street.
As you can see by the pictures below, we found our way to Lombard Street, but not after a hellacious walk uphill from Van Ness. At least we got to walk down the crookedest street in the world, which was quite busy I might add. Then we caught the bus to Chinatown. Unfortunately we passed right through it and into the next neighborhood without realizing it. The “Little Black Book” of San Francisco had Chinatown placed a little further down than it was. Oh well.
We went back to the hotel to get ready for the 49ers game and then caught the gameday express shuttle to Monster Field. The whole ride took about half an hour. We found our seats after grabbing some grilled grub and enjoyed the game from there. We also kept up with the Titan’s game via ESPN.com (Go Titans!) and celebrated their win as well. In the 4th quarter, we headed back to the bus and went back into town. After a quick stop at Union Square, we bussed back to Japantown for dinner and here we are!
For four days in San Fran, I think we did pretty well. We leave for Long Beach early tomorrow morning. I doubt I’ll blog as often there, so I’ll take this opportunity to say Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
