Road Trip: San Francisco & LA

In the interest of not boring all of you to death with a ridiculously long post, I'm going to compress each day into a brief recap for your enjoyment. Sit back, relax and enjoy the blog!

Day #2
I arrived in San Francisco a little bit before 4:00 p.m. and met up with Erin at her apartment in the Mission. After some necessary coffee and bonding time, we headed to Bernal Heights to meet up with Mel, Michaela and Zoe (who was also visiting SF this weekend). Drinks and delicious food were had, and there was a lot of gleeful squealing when we reunited. A random woman in the bar even approached us to comment on how happy we all seemed. It was pretty sweet.

Day #3
Erin, Mel, Zoe and I had breakfast bagels at a little place in Bernal Heights. Then Zoe left to meet up with some other local friends while Erin, Mel and I headed to Tiburon and Angel Island for the day. The town was adorable with lots of little restaurants and boutique shops, and the island was really interesting. Apparently Angel Island is known as the "Ellis Island of the west." Immigrants had to pass through Angel Island before they were permitted access to the mainland. Sadly, the main immigration building was temporarily closed for renovations so we didn't get to see it... but we did have the opportunity to see a lot of the other nearby ruins.

Day #4
This was pretty much the ultimate day of kickassness on my sojourn to San Francisco. Today, the five Emerson girls (Erin, Melanie, Michaela, Zoe and myself) journeyed to Sonoma to visit vineyards and taste a lot of wine. We visited the Sebastiani and Buena Vista wineries, the latter of which is the oldest winery in the region. We had a picnic at Buena Vista, and had a blast tasting all their different wines. I bought a bottle of Adagio Port from Sebastiani. Mmmm...

Day #5
Labor Day, and my last day in San Francisco. Erin and I stayed in town today and found our way to Fisherman's Wharf, Coit Tower and the North Beach neighborhood. That evening we met up with Mel, Michaela and Erin's boyfriend Ryan for dinner at a Mexican restaurant with freakin' amazing fish burritos.

Day #6
This morning I said my goodbyes to Erin and got back on the road to finish the drive down to LALA Land. Miraculously, my mp3 player worked exactly as it should for the entire day; an extremely pleasant change from the previous two driving days. I spent the drive down rocking out to road trip songs and the cast recordings of Legally Blonde: The Musical and Aida. I got to Sherman Oaks a little after 3:00 p.m. and my new roommates (Monica and Vicki) helped me unload my car, showed me around the area and brought me grocery shopping. I unloaded a decent amount of my stuff in my room, but at the moment I am still bedless because the bed isn't scheduled to be delivered until tomorrow afternoon. That means I get to sleep on the couch tonight. Woohoo! But at least tomorrow night I ought to finally have a bed, and my room will start looking more like an actual bedroom. Monica and Vicki's cats, Robbie and Nermal, are quite intrigued by all the new stuff coming into the apartment. I suspect they'll be even more intrigued when Osiris and Isis come down to join me. Hahaha.

So that's pretty much the story of my move to SoCal. I'll keep you updated as more crazy fun things occur.