August 25 and 26: San Francisco

Theme songs: "Falling off the edge of the earth" by Black Sabbath and "Dynamite" by Taio Cruz

'Careful now.'We're dealing here with a myth.'This city is a point upon a map of fog;'Lemuria in a city unknown.'Like us,'It doesn't quite exist.' "Ambrose Bierce, San Francisco journalist,poet, and novelist of the early 1900's

Back online kinda! So, Vib has written a blogthingie for the day in Santa Cruz and the first whole day in SanFran and she'll post it when she gets the chance! For now I'll give a short summary of the last days in this awesome city.

We went downtown on wednesday after a more or less dissappointing "night on the town" tuesday evening. We were going to try for some sightseeing, but ended up tearing the city apart shopping-wise instead. It was unplanned and it was beautiful! The dresses, oh the dresses! Fun times to be had ahead :) Ahead was not far a way as we headed out later that evening for a girls night out. We had been told by a waitress to try for a club called Ruby Skies, and went there just to find the place locked down until the weekend. So we ended up at the place next door; Slide. it actually has a slide for getting down to the bar - unfortunately the slide wasn't open, but the bar was. We met a group of guys from San Diego that came up for wednesday partying, and got a tip from them to go to Infusion Lounge as Slide was full of brooding lonely guys. Tequilas and drinks were had, and dancing until the wee hours of the morning, and Oval Eye followed shortly after. All in all we had a great time and can recommend SanFran night and day highly =D

The next day we were supposed to do sightseeing (again), meeting a friend of my family and shipping the guitar we'd bought home to Norway. We ended up spending the fore- and afternoon trying to ship the guitar.. The last place we went, they agreed to wrap and ship the guitar for, wait for this, 540 dollars!! Not happening! We decided to ask mom and dad to care for it for us. And ended up not sightseeing, not seeing the family friend and actually not ship a guitar, oh well, it happens ;)

We dealt with rush traffic in the city and went to get mom and dad at Emmeryville trainstation in Oakland at 4. I have driven in a couple of the major american cities now, but I don't know if I'll ever get used to it. Craziness! but a little fun.. It was awesome beyond imagination to see mom and dad again, and after getting them a room at our crappy, but turned out incredibly cheap hotel, we went to an appraised sea food restaurant in the neighbourhood. I'll get the name later. People should go there!! We had food and wine and exchanged traveling stories as they had spent the last couple of days on the AmTrak train from Chicago to San Francisco. After that dad droveall of us to the Golden Gate bridge, and we finally did some sightseeing in SanFran! We did the famous Lombard street after that (featured in a lot of car chase movies!) and then some. Exhausted from the day before, this day and the thought of air travel early in the morning, we went to bed at 10 pm. See you in NYC!

UC

Pictures will come later!