Exploring under California's Sun!

Traveling to the West Coast to San Francisco and San Jose area with Sara and Sean went smoothly! God was so good to us by providing us gorgeous weather throughout the week even it was Monsoon for them! Thank You Lord. <><

I arrived in the evening to SFO (San Francisco Airport) from Omaha and Salt Lake, both went smoothly. Was tremendous to see Sara once again in person after I helped her move out of Rochester in June and the road trip to Huston . Just miss her so much, who had became my big sister from Tri Sigma Sorority to a good friend! <3Day 1: Sara and I slept in a little bit, went out for Starbucks and chatted. After that we went hiking to the Rock where you can see the City of San Jose where I was staying. Later that night decided to have pizza for dinner, was my first time having pizza in ages since it always disagree with my stomach but it seem to agree with the new medication, and it was good even through still nervous to have it again. Day 2: On the way to San Francisco we took the coastal highway, pulled over to this neat private beach and spend some time down there playing around! It was neat part of the day! ALSO first time touch the Pacific Ocean! After the beach, headed to the city of San Francisco, visited the Golden Gate Bridge and Pier 39. It was interesting, I have seen the Golden Gate Bridge from movies, pictures, and TV show “Full House”, thought it was HUGE but really it wasn’t compared to what I thought it would be. At least, I got to see it for myself and know what it is alike out there in SF. Pier 39 is a harbor, one of popular sight seeing place in SF. It was a neat place, watched sea loins play around, has small stores surround the place, and view of Golden Gate Bridge, the city of SF and Oakland, and famous place called Alcatraz Prison now a National Park for Tourist. Later that night we arrived back to the apt and hit the hot tub. Day 3: Sara and I went to Santa Cruz Beach for the day and visit another popular beach on the West Coast, even where the natural bridge was located. Spend the whole afternoon till sunset on the beach, took bunch of pictures, even watch many surfers catching some waves! It made me felt part of tv show “Baywatch” that I grew up watching, by taking picture with lifeguard tower, surfers, and being in California where it was produced! :)

Day 4: My last full day in California Sean, Sara, and I went to Mount Tamalpais to Mier woods hiking about total of 5 miles throughout the afternoon and had lunch in the woods. After the hike, went to a beach nearby and spend rest of the time there playing around in rocks, sand, and water till the sunset. Headed back to San Jose, had nice pasta dinner at the apt and passed out from a long fun day!

Day 5: Boophooey my Christmas break had came to the end and its time to fly to the East Coast back to New York. My flights were from SF to Atlanta, GA for layover, this is my actually first time flying coast to coast. Would be a good experience and get myself prepared for long flights to Europe coming up Fall.

Pictures are still coming to my Picasa album, there are over 300 pictures that Sara and I took with her camera since my camera wasn't working well as I wanted it to!

Those pics are copyright from Sara Emily Photography (she knows I took them LOL!)