Wacky San Francisco Hijinks
May. 25th, 2010 11:48 pmJust home from having wacky hijinks in SF with the lovely and brilliant ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
colourofsaying. Man, that was AWESOME.
Even though we talk, oh, pretty much constantly on Skype, I haven't seencolourofsaying in about two years, what with the going to schools on opposite ends of the country and living in different states on holidays and then this year the thing where she was kind of in Japan. Clearly this was unacceptable! So when we realized that she was going to be in San Francisco for a day on her way home from Nagoya this month, of course we decided that Epic Adventures were in order.
After we met up together at the Caltrain station (and she gave me the stripey socks and all the fan porn she brought me from Japan), we took the BART into the city, where we immediately proved our utter incompetence at public transit by getting on the bus in the wrong direction and not realizing it for about 8 stops. Oops. Luckily, the SF bus system is forgiving, and after an extensive interlude of cracking dirty jokes about Doctor Who and cooing over the massive tribe of elementary students that got on at the zoo, we made it to where we were going, which was...some neighborhood by Golden Gate Park, I don't even know. At this point we were both about to keel over from hunger - but since the street we were on was four solid blocks of Dim Sum take-out bars punctuated by fruit markets, this was not an issue, we just picked the closest one to where we standing and treated ourselves to somewhat ridiculous amounts of dumplings.
The used bookstorecolourofsaying wanted to check out was pretty thoroughly amazing, as evidenced by the fact that between us we bought, like, half a dozen books in the space of less than an hour. It had TWO FLOORS AND TWO SEPARATE BUILDINGS GUYS IT WAS WONDERFUL. I got The Demon's Lexicon, So You Want To Be a Wizard, The Tempest, and Marvel Adventures: Iron Man 2, and I think colourofsaying bought The Demon's Covenant. I'm pretty sure we could have stayed the entire day if we hadn't needed to find a bathroom.
Somehow, on our quest to find one store in San Francisco that actually had a bathroom, we ended up walking about a mile and a half through Golden Gate Park in the rain (and of course we had one umbrella and one overcoat between us, of course), so by the time we got to Haight Street (which was an ultimate destination for reasons I no longer remember) we were pretty much frozen through, and had to spend a good bit of time in some random coffee shop with great hot cocoa but no napkins or spoons, thawing out and reading bits of books out loud at each other and giggling.
Once we could feel our fingers again and most of our clothes had dried out, we wandered around Haight Street for a few hours, since we didn't have anything better to do. We saw approx. 11 million guys in skinny jeans and Converse, and a lot of girls with hair more exciting colors than mine. Since we are both English major uber-dorks, we found a second used bookstore and hung out there for a while, which was fun. And at one of the several dozen thrift stores on the street we bought me a very cute hat!
After a lot more walking, a game of phone tag, and finally us hitting up passing strangers for directions, we got on the right bus to go down to Ferry Plaza and meetcolourofsaying's mom for dinner. Except we couldn't find any restaurants that were a) open and b) not insanely expensive, so in the end we just got a box of cheese and bread from a wine place and some fruit from the farmers' market and did that.
I don't actually remember much about the trip home, except that I kept usingcolourofsaying as a pillow on the BART and some guy with scary eyebrows kept glaring at us while we were arguing about what kind of songs each character would have in Torchwood's musical episode. But I made it home fine, obviously, and hopefully colourofsaying will have a good trip back to NC. And hopefully it will not be two years before we see each other again, right?
colourofsaying. Man, that was AWESOME.Even though we talk, oh, pretty much constantly on Skype, I haven't seen
colourofsaying in about two years, what with the going to schools on opposite ends of the country and living in different states on holidays and then this year the thing where she was kind of in Japan. Clearly this was unacceptable! So when we realized that she was going to be in San Francisco for a day on her way home from Nagoya this month, of course we decided that Epic Adventures were in order. After we met up together at the Caltrain station (and she gave me the stripey socks and all the fan porn she brought me from Japan), we took the BART into the city, where we immediately proved our utter incompetence at public transit by getting on the bus in the wrong direction and not realizing it for about 8 stops. Oops. Luckily, the SF bus system is forgiving, and after an extensive interlude of cracking dirty jokes about Doctor Who and cooing over the massive tribe of elementary students that got on at the zoo, we made it to where we were going, which was...some neighborhood by Golden Gate Park, I don't even know. At this point we were both about to keel over from hunger - but since the street we were on was four solid blocks of Dim Sum take-out bars punctuated by fruit markets, this was not an issue, we just picked the closest one to where we standing and treated ourselves to somewhat ridiculous amounts of dumplings.
The used bookstore
colourofsaying wanted to check out was pretty thoroughly amazing, as evidenced by the fact that between us we bought, like, half a dozen books in the space of less than an hour. It had TWO FLOORS AND TWO SEPARATE BUILDINGS GUYS IT WAS WONDERFUL. I got The Demon's Lexicon, So You Want To Be a Wizard, The Tempest, and Marvel Adventures: Iron Man 2, and I think colourofsaying bought The Demon's Covenant. I'm pretty sure we could have stayed the entire day if we hadn't needed to find a bathroom. Somehow, on our quest to find one store in San Francisco that actually had a bathroom, we ended up walking about a mile and a half through Golden Gate Park in the rain (and of course we had one umbrella and one overcoat between us, of course), so by the time we got to Haight Street (which was an ultimate destination for reasons I no longer remember) we were pretty much frozen through, and had to spend a good bit of time in some random coffee shop with great hot cocoa but no napkins or spoons, thawing out and reading bits of books out loud at each other and giggling.
Once we could feel our fingers again and most of our clothes had dried out, we wandered around Haight Street for a few hours, since we didn't have anything better to do. We saw approx. 11 million guys in skinny jeans and Converse, and a lot of girls with hair more exciting colors than mine. Since we are both English major uber-dorks, we found a second used bookstore and hung out there for a while, which was fun. And at one of the several dozen thrift stores on the street we bought me a very cute hat!
After a lot more walking, a game of phone tag, and finally us hitting up passing strangers for directions, we got on the right bus to go down to Ferry Plaza and meet
colourofsaying's mom for dinner. Except we couldn't find any restaurants that were a) open and b) not insanely expensive, so in the end we just got a box of cheese and bread from a wine place and some fruit from the farmers' market and did that. I don't actually remember much about the trip home, except that I kept using
colourofsaying as a pillow on the BART and some guy with scary eyebrows kept glaring at us while we were arguing about what kind of songs each character would have in Torchwood's musical episode. But I made it home fine, obviously, and hopefully colourofsaying will have a good trip back to NC. And hopefully it will not be two years before we see each other again, right?