Archive for August, 2007

Cali – Day 2 (San Francisco)

Tuesday, August 28th, 2007

We hit San Francisco on Day 2. First of all, it is FREEZING in San Francisco. And its August! Hoy moly. Anyway, we woke up and grabbed some brunch. Actually, it was one of the best brunches we had (eggs and blueberry pancakes). After that, we went down (and when I say down, I mean down):

to the Fishman’s Wharf. First stop was Pier 39 where we saw TONS of sea lions. It was awesome. This guy was my favorite.


We also saw some fresh seafood,

played some old school games,

saw some old school ships and…hit up the in out out burger (for Larry).

After the Wharf we went to Chinatown. I was only decently impressed with Chinatown. Maybe we missed the good part, but it seemed like any other Chinatown.

The night we had dinner at Roy Yamaguchi’s restaurant, called Roy’s. Good food, and a great dessert.

Here are some pics. Til tomorrow…

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Cali – Day 1

Tuesday, August 28th, 2007

To start off our trip, I caught an afternoon flight into LGA. Nervous as always that it would be late and ruin everything, the flight took off perfectly on time in beautiful weather. Larry picked me up at LGA a little bit late right on time and we taxied to JFK. When we got there we realized our flight was an hour late. No big deal, so we grabbed some dinner.

After dinner, we found out our flight was an hour and a half delayed, still no big deal, so we headed to the Admirals Lounge (yeah business class).

About 40 minutes before our new departure time we got ready to head out, only to find out our flight was now 2 hours delayed. aargh. anyway, to make a long story short we finally got on the plane, to our confy, large-foot-roomed seats.

Good stuff right? Well, apparently after we left the gate some kind of “emergency” happened at JFK which left us 57th in line to take off. So, about 4 hours after our original departure time, we take off.

All went well until about an hour before landing. We slept, watched some tv, etc. However, I took one last nap and woke up with very dry eyes. I rubbed them a couple times and realized the contact in my right eye was no longer there. My eye hurt though, so I thought it was still in my eye. After two trips to the bathroom to check it out, I finally woke up a very sleepy L, who was very calm and helped me perform minor surgury to finally get the contact that was stuck to my upper eyelid out. whew.

We landed shortly after, took a cab to the Hotel Palomar (which is a cute, boutique hotel in Union Square, San Fran) and passed out.

More pics from Day 1 here.

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California….here we cooooommmmeee!

Thursday, August 23rd, 2007

Tomorrow Larry and I leave for California for 10 days! First stop: San Francisco.

Check back soon for more updates!

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