Sunday 30th September

Today we slept in a little because we were so tired from the wedding! After a nice brunch at Starbucks, we headed to Erin's house to say hi. They were having an open house for most of the day to say goodbye to many of their guests so we just stayed long enough to see Sam and Erin before we drove up to San Francisco.

Our first stop in the city was "Japan Town" which has a few malls and parks with Japanese style things. Christina mainly wanted to go to a Lolita shop: Baby, the Stars Shine Bright, which we've been to in various locations around the world. Christina mainly likes BTSSB accessories and not dresses so she came away with a nice cardigan this time which was on special.

After BTSSB we got some lunch at a Japanese restaurant (yakiniku lunch set and katsu curry) and then headed to kinokuniya.

After a thorough look at kino to catch up on the latest trends in dresses, bags, cameras and dresses we got the car and drove into the middle of the city.

Our idea was to find uniqlo and the china town area, then find a park somewhere and have a walk around, but it was a bit stressful getting the park. Eventually we saw a garage and because it was Sunday afternoon it was empty and cheap but still a bit difficult to figure out.

After we escaped the garage we went for a nice walk around the china town area which is full of horrendously tasteless shops but was fun to look at. Christina was reminded of "big trouble in little china" and advised me not to step on the grates lest Lo Pan jump out and get me (I managed to escape).

After we walked up a HUGE hill for ages we walked down in the direction that we supposed uniqlo was and instead found the lomography shop (fun but didn't buy anything) and then found uniqlo CLOSED or ABANDONEd or something. It was a weird situation where they're moving stores or something.

Anyway we got back to the car and agreed that it was a great walk so why not top it off with a big long drive to the Golden Gate Bridge?

So we set the GPS and followed where it led us up and down hills and through tunnels until we came to the big long highway leading up to the bridge JUST as everybody else got there. Oh we'll, the view from the road was nice and we eventually got over the bridge to the viewing area and had a great time.

After a long drive back we visited Sam and Erin and the kravitzs again and were fed leftovers for dinner which was great! Now sleep!