titles are for jerks, anyway.

I started this blog at the request of my mother, but I have my doubts that she's even reading. Mum, are you out there? (If you are, sorry for not calling. The time difference plus the fact that you're at work most of the day makes it almost impossible.)

Anyway! Tonight is our last in San Francisco, tomorrow morning we're catching a bus to Visalia (pronounceed Vyse-alia, as we learned today after a very confusing conversation with the man at the Greyhound station).

It is 12 degrees in San Fran right now. That's right, TWELVE. It's colder here than it is in Sydney. Crazy. It was about 30 degrees the first couple days we were here, but yesterday we woke to discover the temperature had plummeted and suddenly we needed jeans and coats. I even bought a cute little crocheted beanie to keep my ears warm.

Despite the sudden-freezingness, yesterday was a great day! We went to the music festival I mentioned earlier, the one in Golden Gate park. On our way out we fed ducklings and saw a waterfall.
Then we caught the bus up to the Golden Gate Bridge and walked across. My new beanie came in handy. By the time we were done my nose and cheeks were cold and bloodless. Each breath exhaled was visible in the air.
We ended the day with dinner at a fancy restaurant and a visit to Borders bookstore. We ate snails! They were delicious. The wine was amazing also. We made up a silly review for it, that I might type up later (but not right now because I really hate this computer room, I feel like everyone is peering over my shoulder as I type and it makes me so uncomfortable so I'm just typing up the basics so I can get out of here. Though as I wrote that, the man who was sitting way too close in an 'ever-heard-personal-space-buddy?' kind of way moved so it's a little better now).

I'm in a bad mood. Blogging in a bad mood is like drinking and driving: you just shouldn't do it. So I'm going to go take a nap or maybe read before dinner, and maybe think about how delicously warm it will be in Visalia. Adios.