San Francisco

Hey everyone, Laura here. So when I said we'd be able to post a lot while in San Francisco, I was just kidding. I forgot how much there was to do, and how little time we had. On our first full day we went back to Chinatown to walk around and do some shopping before going to the baseball game that evening. We went to the first game of the Giants vs. Twins series, and it was an interesting game to say the least. The Twins scored 8 runs in the top of the first inning, and so for the rest of the game even the slightest error from the Giants caused an unnecessary amount of profanity from the fans sitting in the bleachers with us. The final score was 9-2, so at least the massacre was short lived. On our second (and last) full day we went to the Berkeley/Oakland area. For those of you that saw my facebook status about stalking Green Day and laughed, I was serious. We went to Berkeley first to see 428 Gilman st., which is the tiny old club where Green Day, as well as many other bands, got their start. We then went to Yogurt-land (a super awesome frozen yogurt bar) for lunch (thank you Cass) before heading to Oakland in search of Billie Joe Armstrong, Green Day's frontman. We found his neighborhood, but unfortunately we couldn't pick his giant house out from the crowd. Creepy, I know, but awesome just the same.

As we were leaving our hostel yesterday, a rather brightly colored pamphlet caught my eye. I picked it up to find an advertisement for none other than the Jelly Belly Factory, only 45 minutes away. This was an immediate game changer, and I told Elijah that Yosemite would just have to wait. So this morning we left San Francisco and headed out in the opposite direction of Yosemite to the Jelly Belly Factory. We got a free tour of the factory, free samples, and a free bag of jelly beans each. After our tour, we treated ourselves to Jelly Belly soda, a jelly bean shaped burger, and a jelly bean shaped pizza. It was fantastic. We walked out with over 6 pounds of jelly beans, as well as various other goodies.

We are finally on our way to Yosemite, and we will be there for five nights. It looks like we're going to have great weather, so we are super excited. We probably won't be able to blog while we're there, so we'll blog next week when we get to Lone Pine, CA.

Have a great weekend, even if its not as cool as ours.
Laura