START AT THE BEGINNING

Happy New Year everyone, I hope you guys are starting it off well. I was in San Francisco for the time between Christmas and New Year's Eve so I snapped quite the amount of gorgeous photos that I would like to share everyone, so if you didn't travel this break, follow me as I take you with me across California. It's quite the long journey, but I guess we should start at the beginning.
The trip started off with Max, Shannon and I picking up thanson and heading out for San Fran. This is our first stop...an LA gas station. Then off we go for hours at a time, disc by disc, playlist by playlist, license plate game by license plate game, and 'would you rathers' helped us passed the time as we treked to a stop in Santa Barbara and along the coast for a beautiful drive along the Pacific Ocean.
Stops at Gilroy and such accompanied this trip as we needed rest breaks, cars needed gas, people needed restrooms. Not too bad, I even won $25 on a scratcher I got from a gas station. When we got to the Manegold residence pizza awaited us, and I was much too tired to take photos and update anything or let alone keep my eyelids higher than the equator of my pupil. The next day though we started off with the works, and where else to begin in an introduction to San Francisco but BART and the cable cars, and the city in general, where it all began.
Max and Shannon look happy, though we did have to wake up fairly early for this tour to start.
The first time San Franciscan air hit my face it felt good, the second time, it felt cold. It was the coldest weather I had ever face in a city where snow wasn't an option. I was greeted by lovely buildings and luxury malls and a very beautiful Forever 21.
What is San Francisco without its cable cars? I'm not sure but I'm glad they're here, they are quite the touristy attraction, but one I cannot pass up.
I learned during my stay that there are quite the number of characters in San Francisco, and the lovely Jenny told me that this man stands out on Powell St. everyday with his Jesus Christ Loves You sign. Impressive, we need more people who are dedicated to a cause without a care to green pieces of paper in this world.
As I catch glimpses down Boulevards and Avenues in the cable car I realize how unique, distinct, beautiful, and hilly San Francisco is. It was all quite beautiful, it still amazes me how all the land around San Francisco is flat, yet everyone has flocked to this city for decades.
As streets get thin, the ride gets proportionally bumpier, and you find yourself knowing a lot more about your standing neighbors than you would care to wish for.
But once we got off we arrived in the famous Fisherman's wharf. You could tell from the smell if fish and the kaw of gulls in the air. We stopped by an old museum only to come out and be greated by mother nature in the form of precipitation.
We decided a little food was in call, and what better than Clam chowder in sourdough bread bowls on a cold, cloudy day like this? So we stopped over at the Boudin's and had our self a ball.
After walking up and down the embarcadero for a while and checking out Alcatraz tickets, we ventured onto Pier 39 where all the shop, fun and revelry goes down. Oh here's a picture of Tiffany hugging a giant Christmas Tree.
There were some good stores, but this one caught my eye... Ah how I wish Rico would've seen this. Oh well. Oh I did find out that a worker at the magic store respects David Copperfield's magic but is appalled by his personal life.
The Rock.
The Beast, and 3 nice female friends.
After the wharf we jetted off to Chinatown, as I was in search of a turtle. When I was little I bought a pet turtle in SF chinatown and I was hoping that luck would reproduced the same results from that day so long lost in my childhood. Sadly no, but it was awfully fun, we made a few stops at local stores and even at a sushi place (Chinese people making sushi is like French people making cars by the way, it wasn't nearly as good as its counterpart).
After that we finally arrived in Union square where we decided we were done for the day and headed back to BART, on our way back to Fremont.
Tiffany saw that ad that she had bought for her company a couple years back, I think it paid off, she's been doing prettttty well lately. I think she should stick to Tiffany & Co. in lieu of her engineer/winery dreams.
I don't really have time to elaborate, but I wanted to give you guys a taste of the next installment of SF, of which there will be many, but the next one details our trek through Golden gate park.
Plus, civilization all started in the beginning, and the beginning is the east.