another year

i thoroughly enjoyed 22. it was a good year for me and i have to admit that i'm sad its ending. yeah, so it started out a bit rocky, but thats just part of life. all in all, i enjoyed being 22. i enjoyed saying i was 22. i enjoy the number 22. Everything about being 22 was just simply great. its like still young enough to get away with so many things, but old enough to do whatever you want to do. And so many great things happend this past year. I got an amazing job that I absolutely love, I went to Japan, I met some amazing new friends, and I got to visit and spend time with some old friends as well. I went to the west coast and saw san fransisco. I rode my bike across the golden gate bridge, 22 was an amazing year!! 23 is that much closer to adult hood. I mean yeah i am an adult now, but i'm still a young adult, still fresh to the world so its ok, it lets me get away with a lot of things. The older you get the more mature you have to become. The more responsible you have to become. and to be honest.... I'm just not so sure if I'm ready for all of that. I'm still in kid mode and I'm not sure that I'm ready to leave it. But I guess I have to right? Because, thats just part of life. Thats what happens, we get older, we get wiser, and we enjoy the journey as much as we can. I'm sure that 23 will be just as great of a year as 22 was. Actually, I know that it will!! So enough venting about turning 23.... I'm ready and its going to be great, so here we go...................

San Fransisco

its been a few weeks since i got back, but its been a crazy few weeks as well. San Fransisco was amazing. I fell in love with that city it was absolutely gorgeous there. After a long flight plus spending the night in LAX airport, I quickly found my way to lacy's house, took a shower, got ready, and headed off in search of the Bart. It wasn't too hard to find, I had a map and when I got a bit lost a nice man showed me where to go. I walked with him there and found out that he used to live in Saratoga Springs!! very exciting! I soon found out that it was "spare the air" day, meaning all public transportation was free. I headed into the mission for a good mexican lunch. After that I hopped back on the bart to embarcadero and jumped on a cable car. I had somewhat of an idea of what i wanted to do today, but no set plans. I rode the cable car all the way up California street and finally decided to get off, otherwise I would just be riding that all day. Now, I had studied the map of San Fransisco before I left, but I didn't have a hard copy since it was too big to print out. I knew that Lombard street was close to where I was so I started to walk in the direction that I thought it would be. All of a sudden bam there it was!! It was really neat I took some pictures, walked down it, took more pictures, and then stood there trying to plan my next move. I knew that I wanted to go to the golden gate bride, but I didn't know how I was going to do this. Should I just walk across it? But that would be a long far walk just to simply get to the bridge. Maybe I should take a cab? How much would that cost though? I started walking in the general direction while I contemplated what to do. All of a sudden I stumble upon a bike rental shop!! PERFECT!!! So I rented a bike and off I went. Now, I hadn't rode a bike in about 10 years, but its true when they say its just like riding a bike, I got on and a bit wobbly at first, but I was off!!

Now, for those of you know don't know, I have this mild obsession with bridges. I absolutely love them, so riding a bike across the golden gate bridge was pretty much a dream come true. I was in heaven!! And it was sooo beautiful. There wasn't any fog at all, it was completely clear and beautiful. I rode my bike across to a little town called sausaleto. This was such a cute town, I wanted to move there!!!! I tried to catch a ferry back to san Fransisco, but missed it and since the next one wasn't coming for an hour, I decided to simply ride back. I then headed toward fisherman's warf to check it out and then back to oakland to get some dinner with lacy. All in all, it was the perfect day!.

Day 2 started out awful. Lacy dropped me off at the Bart station on her way to work. Getting on the bart I then realized that I forgot my ticket to Alcatraz!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So I went back to lacy's bart station, walked all the back to her house, called a cab, thinking it would be faster since it took about a half hour for me to walk there. Only to realize that it took the cab a half hour to get there!!! But, needless to say I made it and alcatraz was awesome!! I highly recommend anyone take this tour if they ever get a chance, because it was very interesting. After that I went down to peir 39 to see the sea lions, went to giradelli square for some chocolate, and had lunch at this cute little Italian restaurant. I was super tired today so I went shopping for a bit and then headed back to meet up with lacy.

Day3 was just as good as the rest. We started out going to Castro for some lunch, then headed to haight ashbery (which has some awesome shops!! too bad I ran out of money by now!!). We then stopped in golden gate park, relaxed a bit before heading to see the full house house!! Totally cool, its called postard row because its one of the most photographed spots in the city and has been seen in numerous movies and tv shows. After that we went shopping and headed into Berkely for some dinner. We then went to this prett rose garden and you could see the san fransisco bay from there and it was soo beautiful. We went back to play cards and lacy dropped me off at the airport... It was an amazing trip and an amazing city I highly suggest anyone to go visit it someday!!