San Francisco....again

I have been to San Francisco many times in my life. Before New York City entered the picture this was the place I would go escape. It was the only real city I knew, or at least thought I knew. Looking back now I see how in the last 9 years I have only seen snapshots of the city. Being led through it by a number of different people,  seeing it through their eyes. 

  I always tell people that this is the only place I have been to more than a dozen times and yet I still can't figure out how to get around. You can drop me off  in the middle of the city and I would not understand at all how it connects. I remember the first time I went with Michelle, we stayed for 3 days, slept in the car in the parking lot of a hostel and drove up and down Van Ness street for what seemed like forever. That was 

freedom at nineteen years old I guess. 

This time around I traveled with an old high school friend who I hadn't seen or talked to in person for over 5 years. It is strange to think that someone would want to re-connect on a trip where there are no outs if for some reason the connection is not there anymore, well I am a strange girl.  

Once again it became a thing of seeing the city through her eyes, not that it was bad but I am wondering when I am going to get my own view of the city. Or maybe it is just too late? New york stole my heart it would be too hard to try to get it back. I am so confused with San Francisco now a days... besides it's black and white photobooth in Fisherman's Wharf I don't know what else I have to look forward to when I go. Wait I forgot, it has Bi-Rite Creamery ... you can disregard everything else I just said.

 

"SF that's what we locals call it"

my birthday came and went
......
i want to explain EVERYTHING
but right now im short for time (what else is new)
so enjoy pics...

san francisco...

First off it was hella hot..i don't get what is in the air but every other state is
probably freezing while we are sweating i just don't think it's fair. Anyways to
start of the day really we got stuck in horrible traffic jam on the 5 which added
an extra 2 hours to our trip. We got in around 3 and i didn't even get to the city
till 5ish..
I met up with Nick and Jen at Urban Outfitters where the greeter was pretty much
the least enthusiastic person to be at an urban outfitters since Jorge. We then headed
to get some grub because well i don't think any of us had eaten. They had a great idea to
eat at the cheesecake factory that is located on top of the macy's (the biggest macy's next
to the one in herald square..we can thank jen for that little fact) The funny thing about that
place though is that you put your name down, you wait 10 min to get a buzzer, you then wait
anywhere from 40 to 50 minutes for your buzzer to go off and just when you think your done
you are told to move to the side till they call you..hmmm
So you can imagine the mountain like apetite we had all had . Our waitress came over
and we immediately ordered appetizers, i had crab fried wontons and jen ordered ardichoke
(those damn vegetarians) sadly though our waitress didn't even take our real order till
we were halfway done with my appetizer so i just anticipated being way more hungry
then i was and so did nick and jen. Somehow we ended up with way more food then we
could eat and a bill that was over 100 and just 3 people.
We all vowed we would never eat again and headed over to some random theatre to
watch Across the Universe. On our way over there we passed the great american musical hall
that was having some sort of private event. Dozens of kids screaming, camera's going off, huge
limos etc. They were filming a super sweet 16!!!! now just like most of america i am hooked on
this show for no other reason than to despise the creatures that appear on it, and now here i
was able to be face to face with someone who could most likely be satans spaun. But there were
too many kids screaming , too many obnoxious girls wearing barely anything to even try to
get a closer look at the overpriviledge slut whose birthday it was i guess we will just catch it on tv. We got to the movie just in time for the previews. I really have to say i loved the movie the second time around. It didn't lag , it was a lot funnier , maybe it was because the room was packed and everyone got the jokes , well whatever it was i defitnetly left with a better feeling about it (sorry diego)
We walked around san francisco streets trying to get to our bart station . Really San francisco has some interesting characters...hahaha.. Jen really wanted to go to a bar and she would recount this to us a few times hahaha we finally got to nick's house where he was nice enough to drive me to some rando hotel my dad got in the middle of nowhere. I got there and just crashed.