San Francisco, Day 3!

Good Morning Fam Bam!

Current status is 6 more hours to Oregon so I thought I’d update you on yesterday since I basically got back super late and crashed in bed for this morning’s 5 am wake up call. Woohoo, road trips!!

So yesterday we crossed the Golden Gate Bridge (still have to pay that toll the next 24 hours by the way, don’t let me forget!!) to drive to Muir Woods. It was beautiful! I think this was by far my favorite part of all of San Francisco. 

The redwoods were magnificent and we were some of the first people in the park so it was quiet enough to hear birds singing and the river flowing. There’s some pretty intense hikes around, so I think I’ll come back and explore those the next time I make my way up north.

I braved through the Fisherman’s Warf because life’s too short to not live on the edge a bit. 

Boy was it worth it!! We found this arcade that had over 200 working vintage machines!!! It was AMAZING. I put a quarter in a Swiss music box that was over 100 years old!

 We got our fortune read by a grandmother, hint: it did not bode well for us. Apparently we talk too much and shouldn’t have travelled. Whoops, too late for that one!! 

My favorite machine was the Execution. I can’t believe people paid a whole quarter to watch that! I’ll attach the video so you guys can have a little culture shock with us. Things were definitely not politically correct back then hahaha.

After walking the whole day, we decided the best way to replenish our energy would be to go to Ghirardelli Square and order a classic hot fudge brownie sundae!! If you question whether or not we finished that huge bowl, you underestimate us, there wasn’t a single bite left and man was it good!!

Kelly and I decided that we really missed our China 2012 trip and what better way to recreate it then to walk through Chinatown? Oh, stinky tofu, we did not miss the smell of you.

Continuing our ethnic trend, we ate at a very Americanized Indian restaurant for dinner with Shaneli and Alexandra.

They had phuchka, which is a dish where you put chickpeas in a fried puff ball with some tamarind sauce and then shove the whole thing in your mouth, and I proudly showed my two white friends how to eat this Bangladeshi street food. A little bit of home in SF with even better company!!

That’s all for now folks!! Currently 4 hours to go to Oregon woooooo! 

Love you lots,

Aisha

P.S.  Update:  We have arrived in Oregon!  And here is an ode to San Francisco, courtesy of Kelly!