San Francisco

Golden Gate Bridge!

Me walking across the Golden Gate Bridge (I'm not blinking, it was so windy that I could barely open them)

Pier 39, these seals reminded me of Dennis

Me at pier 39 (I think I am blinking this time)

San Francisco

 California's Great America Entrance

Hi Everyone!
I arrived in San Francisco at about 2.30pm this Tuesday. After crying, feeling sick and just generally having a crap time, the plane trip was finally over. All up I think I travelled bout 23 hours from Melbourne to San Francisco, which was hell! As soon as we got here I was so tired, but they made us all go to this amusement park called 'California's Great America'. I wasn't feeling too well, because at this point I hadn't had a comfortable sleep for around two days but ended up quite enjoying myself.

The next day was very packed in with different activities. In the morning we had a whole group orientation, where they showed us a slide of the general information we will need to know. After this we split up into smaller groups and did more general information activities. After this we had a tour of San Francisco, which was amazing! We started off by going to a mountain/hill kind of a thing to look at the whole city, which was incredible. We then went to the Golden Gate Bridge and walked across it, this was possibly the first time I have ever enjoyed walking across a bridge so much. The sights were amazing! You could almost see the whole city, and you could look out into the ocean and see other islands such as Alcatraz (which is an old jail, amazing but unfortunately we couldn't get the boat out to visit it). We then went to pier 39, which is like a touristy pier with shops, restaurants and beautiful views out onto the ocean. We had dinner here and then went along the pier and went shopping (Jakie, Marley and Tilly Carrodus be excited!)

We arrived back at the hotel at around 9.00pm, at around 10.00pm we had a final meeting to discuss everyones flights in the morning. This meeting ended up going for around 3 hours, and by the time everything was sorted I didn't get back to my until 1.00am. I had to meet down stairs at 5.00am, meaning I ended up getting 2 and half hours sleep. At the airport I checked in and now I am just sitting in the airport waiting for my flight (we arrived 2 hours early, why did they not let us sleep in longer?)

I will check in again once I have spent a few days in Indianapolis, and I'll try post some San Francisco photos up as soon as I can. I'm new to this blog thing so please give me any advice or feedback about it as I have no idea how to really use it.

Speak to everyone soon!
xx