Now, let's step back in time.

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Decided to change my LJ layout and profile. So woo~

Anyway, that backlog. San Francisco! I went last year during Labor Day weekend and then again for Dicken's Fair, thus I'm just going to clump both trips into one post cuz I’m lazy efficient like that.




Labor Day Weekend
- Didn't do much cuz herp derp good idea, let's go on a holiday weekend. I should've known it'd be busy as hell, ah well.
- Traffic everywhere. Itinerary didn't stand a chance.
- Thank you ziggybecket for housing and chauffeuring us girls!
- Lisa's Treasures for high tea was delicious. The best scones I've ever tasted. Someone also needs to tell them to not use fanciful script font for their logotype. No one can read it from afar.
- Went to the Winchester House for the first time ever. It was a lot more bizarre than creepy. They didn't allow us to take photos indoors, boo. I kept on almost tripping on those easy steps.
- Watched movies. I I think we watched Tangled, the crazy, trippy live action Alice and something else? I know Doctor Who was in there somewhere.
- Clam chowder in a bread bowl at Boudin's! I think we also went to some random pizza place near the Winchester House that was pretty darn good.
- Daiso. I want everything.
- Went to my first loli store. I felt totally out of place, but they do have some cute things. I still don't think I'll ever wear that stuff though.
- Sad we didn't get to try all the cool places Oscar wanted to take us to eat. :C
- HOLY MOTHER FUCKING GOD, LOMBARD STREET. Fuck that shit. Going up the incline to get to the top of the famous street was so freakin’ scary and I wasn't even the one driving.
- Got a cute heart patterned scarf!
- Visited Golden Gate Park’s Japanese garden. My god, it was gorgeous!
- Got to climb up one of those really high arch Japanese bridges. It was kinda scary. I kinda scrambled up it like a retard. XD
- GIANT HAWK within like 20 ft of me. o__o
- Ghiradelli’s salted caramel hot chocolate was heavenly. Omg, I want another one just thinking about it.

The rest of the photos are here.




Dickens Fair
- Miso butter corn ramen at Himawari's in San Mateo! It sounded disgusting and delicious at the same time. I'm glad it was the latter.
- I drove in SF for the first time! They're as bad as So Cal drivers...
- Whee bridges~
- Wtf @ people standing at least a couple feet on the street, off the curb when it's not their turn to cross the street.
- Stayed at Hotel Majestic. Wow, it's an old hotel. I think it's the oldest running hotel in the city. It was gorgeous inside and out.
- Had a really weird, slightly creepy dream regarding our room's bathroom. O_o;
- Dickens Fair was cool. I like it a lot better than Ren Faire. I think it's cuz all the volunteer actors are so much more nicer than the Ren Faire ones, which - to me - tend to be rude (unless that’s how they were back in that time period) and then I don't know how to interact with them. Maybe also cuz Dickens is Christmas themed, hence the all-around cheerfulness?
- I went as a newsboy or something like it. Yup.
- There was some guy who was in the character of a drunkard, so he was passed out along the side of a building, haha. What an easy job! sakurae and I were tre amused.
- Bought myself a purdy necklace.
- Oogled what Annie called an old lady hat, but it was cute on me.
- Finally had spiked apple cider! It was okay, haha. Not sure what I was expecting.
- Didn't get to try a pasty among other British foods cuz lines were way too long.
- Failed attempt at getting German food. :C
- Tried carpaccio pizza. I should've known it wouldn't be warm cuz carpaccio = raw beef. And hot pizza >>>>> room temperature pizza. Good job, me.
- Okonomiyaki!! *^*
- Delightful tea time at Tan Tan.
- I wish our Kinokuniya was as large as the one in Japantown. But then maybe it's a good thing or else I'd never find my way out ever.

The rest of the photos are here.