Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving? What should international students with barely no relatives in California do over Thanksgiving? The idea is that people go home to their families, dine and chat around. Apparently, California Tours had a trip to San Francisco & Yosemite National Park over the Thanksgiving weekend so me, cippo and erik said: fuck it, let's go! And so we did.
So off we went on thursday morning with, some italians, swiss, german, southamerican and 200 523 asian people. Long but kinda decent bus trip up to SF. Finally we arrived to a quite nice hotel by Union Square in the middle of the city. For Thanksgiving dinner we went to Hard Rock Cafe for a really traditional turkey dinner. It was okay though. Back at the hotel we met up with the italians&co for a room party. Got some beer and stuffed and socialized a bit. Cool guys actually, got to know them a lot better then :) Got one of the best quotes ever from a swiss guy when we discussed playstation. He had played a car game for 6months, 2hours a day and just finished 39% when tried the same game that day and had already come 20%. His comment was (with a swiss/german accent): "Ooooh My God! I haaaate youuu guuuys!" :D
The next day, Friday, we went up to a look-out place to take some photographs, luckily I screwed up the aperture on the camera so all pictures went almost black:( By the way, out tour guide was the weirdest ever alive. Half french-american kinda guy, trying to make jokes, bad grammar and English and had his personal opinions on life generally. When we went around in the city he explained which people were guy and pointed at them. "Look that guy is showing the finger, he wants to fuck you" he said at a time. Hmm.. Also he tried to make jokes, some sexistic and some just really bad. Anyway he did some guiding in the city too. Later on we checked out the Fisherman's Wharf with all its piers and shops. Sweet place it is. When passing by a game shop I wondered if they might have a PS3 here. All of them are like sold out in Cali, but I figured I'd give it a shot. And guess what? They HAD one! =) So now I'm a proud owner of one and it's amazing! Should have a HDTV though, to get the full experience out of it. That was just a parenthesis. After the piers, we boarded the boat to Alcatraz! Yey. Just being on the island and watching the whole San Francisco bay was worth the whole trip! Really sweet I can tell you. Alcatraz itself was pretty cool, remembered some places from The Rock. Got some nice pictures there aswell. Visit my Flickr to see them.
Afterwards we had some time to go around and check out the town. We had to visit Lombard Street, you know the really curvy road, because it IS San Francisco in some ways. Later on in the night we decided to be men and went to Hooters for a nice meal. Although, it was a bit of disappointed cause the girls weren't that good looking. Anyway, been there, done that and we went back to hotel. Tired so I and Cippo went to bed. Erik on the other hand, know some people from IV who was here in SF so he met up with them. He had fun I guess, he came back at seven in the morning smiling.
On saturday we headed out to Yosemite National Park. Took like a lot of hours, maybe 5. Was quite a scenic drive though up the mountains and so. Well there we had a big lunch. The idea was that we should hop on our bus and get a guided tour around the park, but we missed the bus. Luckily, we found the Yosemite tour bus which went around for free. After going four stops, we figured that this tour would take to long cause we would miss the our bus back to the hotel. So we got off and started walking back to the main centre. We found the visitor center somehow and asked what to do in so short time by foot and got directions to a waterfall and stuff. Saw some deers on the way also.
Then we found our bus and went to the hotel nearby. Awesome room actually, really big with a nice tv, jacuzzi and pool next to it also!
SOoo next day we headed to the Sequoia trees, crazy big trees by the way. That was something cool walking around in the forest with giant sequoias and red woods all around. Our friendly tour guide figured it wold be fun to go around barefoot in the forest (like 4°C outside) and walking in rivers and offroad. Stupid guy.
Then we headed back to SB, our little adventure was over and a long bus ride was ahead of us.
Came back at about 8p.m.



let's hug it out