my dad said that when he told lydia about the bus for mater dei, they started kicking around ideas for worst case scenarios in case mater dei doesn't work out in the end, me commuting to the city to go to preston instead. and i got so excited. i mean, i know it'll never happen, but it's so fun to think about.

current mood: optimistic

VACATION PICTURES! Finally! They came with a disc, so I uploaded ones that you might find mildly interesting.

 <-- Pier 39. That was a lot of fun, but we didn't spend too much time there

 <-- Entrance to Chinatown

 <-- in front of the restaurant we ate at in Chinatown

 <-- some random building in Chinatown

 <-- Me with my cool little gold pig from Chinatown

 <-- the streets are SO steep in San Francisco! Anyway, this is the hill we climbed up to Coit Tower, which you can see up in the background.

 <-- in front of the windows at the very top of Coit Tower..nice view from up there

 <-- the murals at Coit Tower we awesome...they all had to do with working life in SF in the 1930s, interesting and very pretty.

 <-- outside of coit tower, there was a walkway where you could see the entire city. I just had to take a picture in front of it...it was almost like the NYC skyline...it didn't show up well in this picture, though.

 <-- Ghiradelli Square. That was a lot of fun. The ice cream was so good and the woman there who was giving out free samples said she liked my prayer box and then wouldn't shut up about it. "Can you put things in there?" "Um I guess." "What kinds of things?" "I don't know...a cotton ball?" "Oh, that's cool. I should get one for my daughter. You know her birthday's in a few days. She just graduated from high school with a 3.5 GPA  and next year she's going to UCLA...." and on and on and ON!

 <-- in the back of the Ghiradelli chocolate store, there were a few machines that were once used to make their chocolate that they call a "factory"...still made for a nice picture.

 <-- Ah, the infamous ferry ride, where my mother threw up...I had so much fun going in and out of the cabin, getting soaked and dizzy, and taking some great pictures, like this one of Alcatraz from a distance. 

 <-- the Golden Gate Bridge as we approached it

 <-- and right before we went underneath and back around to get back to the pier. 

 <-- yes, it's the thing from the theme song of full house! we had soo much fun in fishman's wharf! well at least i did.

 <-- kind of blurry, but this was hadas and i with a pirate skeleton. heh.

 <-- the crazy shrub man who jumps out of nowhere and scares people!! soo funny watching him from behind.

 <-- in front of a giant garden at Stanford. 

 <-- The campus was absolutely beautiful

 <-- from the outside, just before we left

 <-- and then one night, we had dinner at a mexican place, so of course I had to take a picture with the cute little sombrero guy

 <-- and this was just to finish the roll of film...aside from my dad's thumb, i think it's a pretty cute picture of me with annie =)



lol yeah cuz i had nothing better to do.

current mood: mellow

Sherry's father died...he's only the 3rd person that died when I was old enough to remember. It's really sad...I mean, I only met him a few times, but Sherry was like I am with my dad, they were soo close, I feel so bad for her. Even Mike was broken up about it. Wow, I can't remember the last time I felt so bad for someone.

current mood: sad