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Hi again! Ive checked out and am currently loitering around the hostel for a few hours so finally get a chance to update the rest. Sorry if blogs are hard to follow (mum said this) but the computers arent great and you have to keep typing or they reset after 30 seconds in activity or soemthing and i lose everything which is what i htink happened to one of my previous blogs!
So monday the 4th was wendys last day in san francisco (shes off to canada now then home to uk) so we said goodbye to Ai in the morning (who is off to texas now to study) and went to lombard street and walked up the 'crookedest street' its really pretty there with
flowers etc but i was nearly dieing when i got to the top of the 8 twists and turns as so steep. Monday finally brightened up, the first proper sunshine for a week so of course the fog came in that evening like a big eraser scrubbing out all the tall buildings so you couldnt see them at all its quite scary! After Lombard st we went out to fishermans wharf and did a bit of shopping to get some bits, tried some crazy hats on etc. I got a San Francisco hoody which i had to get from the kids section as all womens sizes too big and they have really fat kids here but i was still impressed i can fit into kids clothing!
we then got a streetcar down embarcadero to market and walked along there until we got to union sq and went up to the cheesecake factory above macys, we had to wait about 20 mins for a seat but it was worth it. They have about 25 diff kinds of cheesecake and i had one that was chocolate, peanut butter and cookie dough with oreo base, suffice to say i couldnt eat it all as was too rich but bot actually that expensive. did a bit more shopping, im still on a search for a sleeping bag and bed bug sheet but couldnt find any in north face shop here and i dont really fancy getting one out of the free stuff bin here as will be pretty minging!
wendy told me about when she was in hawaii some guys she met had managed to fly (microlighting?) onto the lost beach near oahu and took loads of pics before the security guard saw them, they had all the dharma initiative signs and stuff, i really want to go now! i guess i will just have to settle for hobbit village in new zealand where they filmed lord of the rings and of course the neighbours set!
we had some new roomates on this day, 2 blonde bimbo calfornian 19 yr olds. jana and i nicknamed them the hilton twins. one of them helped me dye my hair, shes a walmart model! anyway of course they are underage here for alcohol so they are at that age were they drink to puke and they were a bit of a nightmare offering a bottle of hypnotic around.
had free dinner again - pesto pasta not as nice as last week but so hungry i didnt care. yosemite trip left that day too, bit annoyed im not going but ive made my decision to stay in san francisco in this hostel until i lave and that trip doesnt get back until friday so i would have missed so much more here.
had drinks in the ballroom with wendy, the scottish guy (simon?), toby and the israeli guy. we had all been to the liquor store (offy) earlier and were standing around deciding on what beer to get and this guy comes over and goes 'dude why do you guys travel 6,000 miles to come stand in a liquor store together' which was true as wendy is welsh, im english, there was the scottish guy and toby is from somerset but i just didnt realise at the time! after much deliberating cut the night short and went to bed at 12.30 as wendys flight v early. wendy got me a birthday card and some monkey stickers! how cool is that! going to miss her!
on my birthday i woke up at 5.45 to say bye to wendy although i didnt leave the bunk and then went back to sleep. got up at 9am and had free brekkie and went online to check my email so see if birthday messages which of course there were which was nice.
walked what seemed like 2000 miles to union street and looked round the posh if a little too pricey shops there and didnt buy anything - still on the hunt for leggings to wear (yes sam i am going to join leggings brigade!). spent the rest of afternoon lazing around washington square with all the other people and the evil eyed pidgeons. washington square is a biggish park in north beach in front of the church where marilyn munroe and that designer bloke had there wedding pics taken although not where they were married as they were both divorced and not allowed to marry in a church back then.
when i got back to the hostel at 5pm the hilton twins were sleeping of there hangover and we had a new roomie whos maybe in late 40's, i nicknamed scary mary the next day.
jana dragged me out to fuse bar on broadway and we drank cucumbe cosmos (the cucmber is lethal - soaked in vodka for 2 weeks) until about 2am then ambled back to hostel and went in room to pick up beer left over from previous night to drink in the ballroom and scary mary started shouting at us about how inappropriate we were at coming in at that hour etc, jana was like excuse me but this is a hostel not a hotel, get some ear plugs, go girl! it turns out we werent the first or last to see the wrath of scary mary, i was at the desk this morning and this older french lady was complaining about how she had a go at her constantly for coming in too late or getting up too early! complete nut job, anyway she moved rooms that night again so good riddance as did the hilton twins and we got a whole set of new roomies.
on wednesday i was extra lazy and didnt leave the hostel all day for the first time (i had what i call a 'hostel day'). i met new roomies who are 2 girls from york on a mega round the world trip, they are sweet but talk way too much and are really girly.
had mexican food for dinner was nice, getting into the whole refried beans malarky!
on thursday i went on my last mega sightseeing day, i walked to embarcadero, on the way i spotted an afganistani cuisine restaurant which unsurprisingly is closed and said danger do not enter or occupy. i walked around ferry building and sampled some free food and then caught the BART from embaracdero on market to berkely. this crazy man got on at oakland and was counting wads of cash next to me then to my horror he started talking to me about how i should be wearing daisy dukes (denim shorts) and he told me i looked like lady di which is total rubbish, i think it must be the accent but this guy told me i looked like kate winslet last week too! anyway i escaped him and wlaked around berkely and went to cal (university of california) which is apparently where they film loads of films and tv shows that have university campuses in them, old skool??? i wish! the campus is really beautiful and huge! i went to berkely art museum as it was free,
i wasnt very impressed by the modern art there, i could have done better left handed with a pencil on some of the drawings! went to telegraph ave, berkeleys answer to haight.
got henna tattoos all over both my hands which proved to be quite annoying until it dried properly now its a cool dark orange colour (i have pix).
im going to update this page now so i dont lose everything ive written so far as computers looking like its going to do something dodgy!
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