4th of July!

Happy 4th of July! We had a four day weekend, which I was so happy about! We did so much in San Francisco! We drove into San Francisco this time instead of taking the subway. Driving in San Fran is so different! In order to get around you have to get on a freeway to get on another freeway to get somewhere, but then again that is California for you! We went to see/ drive down Lomabard street which is a street that is called "the crooked street in the world" it was fun driving down it. Honestly I would hate to love in those houses that are on that street because everyone wants to see it and drive down it! Next time I want to get out and take a picture from the bottom, we really couldn't getr out because the cops that were telling traffic where to go rushed us, but next time I WILL GET OUT! Again these pictures were over the weekend span.

Car in front of us going down

 On the ride down they have little gardens that are in between the road, and they were filled with hydrangeas! I love hydrangeas!!! They were huge too, and apparently they are everywhere up in Northern California!

Now going the other way haha

The Embarcadero lit up for the fourth

We were on our way back to where the fireworks were and it seriously felt like Las Vegas at night! It was so crazy and everyone in the city was heading down to the Embarcadero! I am so glad that we parked way out and rode our bikes down. It was easier that way! 

So the firework show was kind of a bummer, the fog came in and well lets just say that it was the best fog firework show that I have ever seen! I wonder if San Jose was any better, at least there was no fog there when we were driving on the way back home! The fireworks show was off of pier 49 which is a pier that has all of the restaurants and carnival rides on, we didn't want to go there and lose each other so we went to the next one over. I am so glad that we went to the next one over because there was fewer people and we basically saw the same thing as the people at the pier that they were shot off of. What was funny was that at first we were all alone on one side of the pier and the fireworks went off and the people all the sudden started coming over where we were standing! 

Yea the fireworks were pretty much cut in half because of the fog. Don't know if that is a normal thing on the fourth in San Fran but oah well.

The next day we went to Santa Cruz and went surfing! I was so excited and one of us actually caught a wave! After a while we decided to go to the Boardwalk and play around there. As you can see we had a lot of fun haha! 

 This is me on the pier and behind me is where we went surfing earlier in the day. It was a good day! Oah and underneath the pier there was a bunch of seals relaxing in the sun, it was so cool to see them so close!

Stanford University

 We also went and saw Stanford University, lets just say...HOLY CRAP ITS HUGE!!! Stanford is so big that it has its own bus route! And the picture above was just the sidewalk! The bell tower below had its own block because it was so huge!

Bell tower at Stanford University...it puts SUUs bell tower to shame

 This was the only four day weekend that I had with Tyler, I miss it already and wish that I had more four day weekends with him here. But at least he has the weekends off!