Night 1 - San Francisco

Good morning everybody,

We all got in safely last night, we actually got in a little early; Reuben, Dan, and I 40 minutes early and Nate 20 minutes early. We were able to breeze through getting the rental car as well thanks to Nate's "Gold Club" status.

The flights went off without any hitches, other than the maroon red haired girl in front of us wearing a viking hat, really short salmon colored shorts, knee high tie die socks, carrying around a giant pikachu doll (Pokemon character for those of you who don't know - Google it) reclining her chair right in Reubens face and flopping her hair over the top to brush her hair, it made for a rather uncomfortable situation for Reuben with her hair inches from his face. I also spilled a cup of water right on my lap making it look as though I was too lazy to excuse myself to the bathroom before relieving myself. The girl in front of me also reclined her seat right in my face and decided to rest her head on the wall which allowed her hair to drape itself over my leg which was essentially pinned between her chair and the wall. But anyways, it was pretty chilly when we got in, around 55 degrees and the high today is only around 65.

It was dark on our drive from the airport to our hotel but it was about a 20-25 minute drive so there was enough to see; the bay bridge, AT&T Park, trollies, Coit Tower (difficult through the fog), and a bunch of the piers. Everything looked awesome and I'm looking forward to seeing it in the daylight. The bay bridge looked really awesome through the fog, we drove right past it and you could see it really well and the lights would fade as it got off into the distance and at the top of the suspension supports, it looked really cool but unfortunately we were not able to get a good picture of it. We also drove directly by AT&T Park (home of the San Francisco Giants) just as a game was getting out so it looked pretty awesome but it did cause a problem with traffic as well. Nate got some good pictures on his camera that we'll try to get up here soon.

Once we got to the hotel we just got settled in, ordered some pizza, watched TV and then headed to bed to try to get a fairly early start this morning.

We're all pretty stuck on East Coast time for now so we're all up early and planning to get breakfast and then head up the coast to the Redwoods.

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