Ghostland, San Fran and Memorial Day

Whaaaaat a weekend! I guess I'll start from the beginning...

Friday night Ericka and Billy had an extra ticket to see Ghostland Observatory at The Mezzanine in San Francisco so we all drove up there when Billy got off work. Getting there was an adventure (note to us: take the 5 SOUTH, not North!) and we thought we might miss a little of the show but we made it in plenty of time to check into our hotel, walk to the concert and still wait around for them to come on. The show was... amazing. It was crazy crowded and hot and there were all kinds of ridiculous, sweaty, pushy boys around us dancing on our toes and causing us (or me at least) to consider random acts of violence but it was completely worth it-- although getting back to the hotel and taking a shower to wipe off all of those strangers' sweat was probably one of the best feelings I've experienced in quite a while! There really just aren't enough words to explain how much fun I had at that concert! (And I totally stole that picture from Ericka's blog since I FORGOT my stupid camera!)

Saturday we spent the day in San Fran doing fun touristy things... breakfast at a cafe near the hotel, riding the cable cars, walking around Fisherman's Wharf and going to the aquarium (the tunnel of fish and the jellyfish were sooooo cool!), eating at the sourdough bread place (omg yum!), watching the Bush Man (I could've stayed there for hours-- check out this link that Ericka found!) and getting free chocolate at Ghiradeli Square. It was a little windy and hovered around 50 degrees all day which was a little cooler than I'd prepared myself for but I'll take that over 100 degrees any day!

Sunday was really, really, really uneventful. In fact, I stayed in my pajamas for the entire day. It was a nice change of pace since the last couple months have just felt really hectic with everything going on. I got way into my book (finally reading Twilight, even though I've seen the movie already...!), played a little WoW, cleaned a bit... it was incredibly relaxing-- I hadn't realized how badly I needed a day like that until I finally got it!

Yesterday was another relaxing morning and then we BBQ'd and swam/stuck our feet in the pool at Ericka's. It really is nights like last night that remind me of how lucky I am to have such amazing friends. Even when we're not doing anything special... BBQ'ing, playing board games, watching Obsessed... it's just so good to be around them. In the middle of our board game, Ericka got the idea that we should all make a sticky note with our name on it and pass it around the table so everyone could write what we like about that person on it and even though it seemed kind of silly, like a summer camp activity or something, it really made me think about what it is that I love about all my friends. We had a lot of good questions playing Loaded Questions last night too, it was hilarious to hear everyone's answers and then to look at how random our papers were at the end-- it was amazing! I love that when the question "What would you not want to see charging toward you in an open field?" was asked (or something like that, anyway...) Ericka and I BOTH wrote "My mother"! We agreed when the answers had been chosen that the only thing we could've put that would be better than our answers was BOTH of our mothers! It was so funny that Jenny had to memorialize it for us.

Overall, it was a great, DRAMA FREE weekend and I'm sorry it's over but it's nice to have things returning to normal!