November 10 (San Francisco) - We woke up to a stunning day of 21 degrees and a perfect sun with not one cloud in the sky. I decided to go for a run. Little did I know that San Francisco consists of hills and ONLY hills. Oy. After my run we met up with Erics brother and mom who just arrived. We hung out, went for a walk around the city then went for an amazing Italian dinner. We finished our night at the hotel bar and STAR SIGHTING - Wentworth Miller (from Prison Break). I got my picture with him. WOO HOO. I went to bed a happy lady.
November 11 (San Francisco) - Eric and I decided we wanted to go on the "hop on, hop off" bus to get a tour around town. The first one we looked at was $35 for the day. We hunted down the sketchiest looking bus, which only cost $20 for 2 days and took that one! We did a tour of the downtown which was just beautiful then another tour of the random, sketchy areas of San Fran. The second "tour guide" (and I use that term loosely) had no idea what he was talking about but atleast admitted it as we hopped on he said, "Well I don't know much about this tour so it's going to be more of a scenic tour." haha. After our tour, we attemped to go to a restaurant for dinner and ended up spending 3 hours walking through sketchville before realizing it was closed. We headed over to the first sandwhich place in San Fran. mmm good! On our walk home we went to the Cheesecake Factory which is on the top level of Macy's and has an absolutely stunning view of the city. I picked up a piece of chocolate moose cheese cake and we headed back to the hotel.
November 12 (San Francisco) - We walked to the wharf and hopped on a ferry boat to Alcatraz (it used to be a prison that housed some of the worst criminals in history. ie: Al Capone). It was so cool and very eary to see it. It has the most outstanding view of San Fran from the island. After we returned from the island, we walked the half hour (only uphill) walk back to the hotel to grab the car to drive the windiest street in the world. It is just a gaint zig zag back and forth for the entire street.
November 13 (San Francisco) - We woke up and headed down to the pier to meet Eric's mom and brother for an amazing lunch at the best seafood restaurant in San Fran. It was DELISH! Just outside of the restaurant there were sea lions in the San Francisco Bay. They were sooo cute! Right after lunch, JENNA ARRIVED!!!!! (my friend who is traveling with Eric and I for just under 2 weeks). Jenna and I took the tram where you hang off the sides (very cool) to Union Square while Eric and Mark went to the aquarium and walked around columbus street, china town and the tranamerica building. Jenna and I then headed to Height Ashbury which is the area that started the hippy movement. We came back to the hotel, got ready and headed out for the night to a bar called Green & Grand in the North Beach area.
November 14 (San Francisco --> Yosemite) - We woke up and headed over to the Fishermans Wharf for some deep fried fresh seafood. mmm mmm. After the nausea started to kick in from all the fried-ness, we decided it was time to head to Yosemite (but of course, we stopped at the Golden Gate bridge on our way).
November 15 (Yosemite) - We went for an absolutely stunning hike to Vernan Falls & Emerald Pool. After our hike, we decided we would find a camp site before it got dark. We headed over to the $5 camp site and figured Eric and I would take the tent, and Jenna would take the car. As we were about to get it all set up, we looked at the registration office and were frightened at the following sign: "There have been 487 bear incidents so far this year and over $100,000.00 worth of damage from those incidents." There were also multiple pictures of bears climbing into cars to try to get food. Although we contemplated still camping there, we decided that we didn't want to wake up to the site of Jenna cuddling with a bear in the car full of food. We dished out 15 bucks each for the "canvas tarp" (saved an extra 3 bucks each by not getting the heated tent... big regrets). We then headed over to the local sports bar to hang out before heading to bed.
November 16 (Yosemite --> Santa Cruz) We woke up in a pretty wet "tarp" in 1 degree weather. eeek. We went to check out and the guy at the front desk said, "Did you hear about the bear incident last night? A bear tore off a persons window frame and climbed into their car and tore it apart." Good thing we decided to stay in the tarp haha. We went to check out the Yosemite Falls & the tunnel view which were both crazy beautiful. We then headed on our drive to Santa Cruz. Within 3 hours it had made its way from 1 degree to 24 degrees. WOO HOO. Were home! Laying on the beach with the gorgeous sun beating on us. Now this is something I could get used to. We then went to the Best Western to see what their rates are. He said 76.00 plus tax... so I said what about 75 including tax? Done and Done. 25 bucks a person for a suite with a king size bed and a pull out couch... perfection!
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