It's been a while since we've written a blog post,
we spent 2 weeks at Erin's Aunt Sheree's house
where we sunbathed, relaxed and made it our own
personal mission to watch all 4 series of Prison Break.
81 episodes, 4 series, 3 girls, 1 programme.
My Aunt and Uncle picked us up from the
station (big shout out to them
for looking after us for 2 weeks)
and took us to Alcatraz- a prison island in the bay where
criminals like Al Capone where sent. It was really eerie and was the
main reason for our dedication to Prison Break. We learnt about the prison break attempts and in the 29 years of being open only 3 made it out through the pipes in their cell, however, whether they made it through a mile of shark infested water
will forever be an unanswered question.
(The rumours were they were heading to South America).
We're now on the homestretch as we're heading to San Jose and
Monterey for the next two weeks and then we finish our whole
trip in LA. We've spent the last week in San Francisco
city and although it's no Melbourne it has definitely
become one of our favourite cities. Similar to Melbourne
it's quirky, full of life and filled with wonderful people.
Whilst in San Fran we met a lovely woman called Erika,
orignally from the city she decided to show us all the best places in San Francisco. She started by taking us to one of the longest
running festivals in the city the hippie Haight/Ashbury festival,
(que megan's input) 'it had garlic fries' (food forever on the brain).
A tourist's dream we visited Pier 39 and Fisherman's Wharf where we had a famous In-N-Out burger which we burned off climbing 1000 steps up to Coit Tower wgiving us a 360 degree view of the city. Erin was desperate to see the TransAmerica Pyramid which geographers will know, is built to withstand the effects of an earthquake (seeing San Andreas with my aunt made us paranoid to an earthquake along the fault). While in San Fran it was compulsory we visit the Golden Gate Bridge which although foggy and SO cold was breathtaking to look at. Americans know how to do it right.
(However were clearly colourblind when they named the bridge) .
We also sampled a bit more American culture with a trip to watch the NBA finals (Golden State Warriors v Cleveland Cavaliers). Because the Warriors are from San Fran, the atmosphere was electric and the crowd where hilarious "put a dagger in him Curry!!!", everyone went mental when they won for the first time in 40 years (comiserations to Lebron James though).
The streets were alive all night, with buses honking and the drunken
chanting went on until the early hours of the morning.
"Warriors, Warriors, Warriors"
Whilst in San Fran we thought it would be fun to
go to a over 18 club which was a good way to
experience the city natives. It was an experience to say the least,
in Megan's words "we turned ghetto for the night" being
part of the only few white girls in the club our dancing
skills could not live up to the twerking, pole dancing
and the moves that the San fran girls could pull off.
Whilst in San Fran we thought it would be fun to
go to a over 18 club which was a good way to
experience the city natives. It was an experience to say the least,
in Megan's words "we turned ghetto for the night" being
part of the only few white girls in the club our dancing
skills could not live up to the twerking, pole dancing
and the moves that the San fran girls could pull off.
We thought we'd finished but Megan was upset we didn't
talk about Costco, so here is Megan talking about food. Being big food lovers we were amazed when we walked in to the shop as we were surrounded by extra large food, no joke the pizzas were the biggest things i've ever seen. After wondering round the shop taking pictures with all the food and trying all the free samples multiple times we got a famous costco hot dog and drink combo for only $1.50 which was truly delicous. Basically Costco is a wonderful place. The end.
lots of love
Megan, Robyn and Erin
xx
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