Birthday in San Francisco

I know we had just been to California two weeks earlier, but Dave had to go to San Francisco for a work trip and I decided to fly out there and meet him. Especially because it was over my birthday! When we went to San Diego, there was almost no planning involved, which was fun, but we also didn’t exactly know what to do when we were there. I took the opposite approach before going to San Francisco. I wrote down everything that seemed cool to do, see and eat and put it on a map I made. I didn’t think we would even get close to actually doing all of those things, but surprisingly we did!

We walked around Stanford’s campus, which took us back to our own college days. This was definitely a nicer campus than Utah State’s though haha.

We walked around the Mission District, and stopped at La Taqueria to get a Mission burrito. It was authentic Mexican food—even according to Dave. We walked to Mission Dolores Park, which had a great view of downtown San Francisco.  Kitty corner to Mission Dolores Park is Bi-Rite Creamery. Of course we got some, along with many other treats this trip. After eating our ice cream, we headed to the Haight-Ashbury District. This area has some well-known stores like Amoeba Music, which we got to go into for about a second before they closed for the night:( This is the place where Hippies were born.  We sat at Alamo Square Park and looked at the Painted Ladies. Dave did a seriously awesome job at parallel parking our rental car down the street. I had to get out and direct him and was starting to really sweat. There was about two inches of room on either side of the car when he was done! The painted Ladies are on Steiner Street, so of course we had to snap some pictures. That reminds me, I still need to offically change my last name…

I am excited to see all the things I can accomplish and all the things I can see during my 22nd year. Thank you to Dave for spending my birthday with me and all of my friends and family who wrote me letters that Dave surprised me with:)