Finally! The San Francisco Trip Post

Well it’s finally here folks! The San Francisco Blog. For a while there I was wondering if it was gonna get up at all but alas, here it is.

Shhhhh. Stop. Listen. Do you hear that? You don’t hear anything? Me neither…cuz that’s the sound of an empty house! Yeah babeeeez! Kids are at Grandma and Grandpa’s for the rest of the week, hubby’s gone and having fun looking at old wrinkled biker chicks (yes, I keep telling myself that) and I’m home alone. Omg does it feel wonderful! It happens so rarely I can truly enjoy it when it does happen.

Anywho…So…as most of you know I took a little trip to San Francisco on Monday to meet up with some of my blogging friends and we had a fabulous time!!! You’ve seen this story a couple of times already on other blogs but I’ll just recap and share pics.

So I started putting photos into blogger and kept messing it up so I finally gave up and did a photoshow! lol Yes, I know Lazy meet Tracy. You’re not telling me anything I don’t already know!

My plane was late on Monday so I had to wait in the airport longer than expected, but I had a book so the time flew. When I got to SFO I called Katie(babs) and she met me down at the luggage carousel. Big squee’s and hugs commenced. We talked for a while and let me tell you, she’s exactly like you would think from reading her blog! Fun, energetic, adorable! We then went to TGIFridays there in the airport where Alice had been waiting and we ate lunch. Eventually we got to the hotel, met KristieJ (yay) and went to the room where Kristie and Katie proceeded to hand out goodies. LOVE GOODIES. Of course the entire time we were together we were talking books, which I just freakin luuuuuuved!! Nothing like being with like minded women talking about the stuff you love.

We hung at the hotel for a while and then met with Ciara and Sula for a great Thai dinner. We had so much stinking fun. Everyone was exactly like I had pictured them and it was fantastic.

After dinner we walked back to the hotel, found a bar on the way and decided to go in for a drink and of course, to talk about more books! 🙂 Come on! It’s a book conference!

Between the bottle of wine at dinner and the cadillac margarita I had at the bar I must have been a little tipsy cuz I only took one picture that didn’t come out at an angle and it was Sula! lol But it’s a good one! Isn’t she beautiful? (you can pay me later, Sula)

Ok – Tuesday came all too soon (with a friggin 5 am wake up call from Lisabea to tell us she was in Detroit. Ok, there’s a time differnce…I get it! :)) and Kristie, Katie and I went and got breakfast at Mel’s Drive-In. Is it a drive-in? No. It’s in the middle of the friggin city – but whatever – there was no lack of customers so they’re doin something right. Alice met us and then we were off for our 5 hour tour of SF.

Now the fun began. We started at the Ferry Building at The Embarcadero (have KB pronounce that for you – it’s quite amusing! :)) and took a ferry to Sausalito. Dude…two words…wind blown. Holy shit – you get on the front of that ferry and it’s like being in a wind tunnel. It was a beautiful day in SF with the sun shining so we could see both the Bay Bridge and the Golden Gate really well from the ferry. I get motion sickness so I was a little worried about hurling on someone’s shoe (not that I told anyone that at the time), but it was fine. Despite the choppiness of the water it was great. Turned out the wind was good for something…blowing the sickness right outta me!

Got to Sausalito and roamed for about an hour, bought some t-shirts for the kiddles and had some great ice cream.

Then came the extra fun part of the day….meeting our tour guide. AKA The Tour Guide Nazi! Dear God in heaven help me from controlling tour guides! lol Now I know they need to keep everyone on a tight schedule so no one holds up the rest of the group but this woman was freakin scary with a capital S, let me just tell you! “You WILL be on this bus when you are told. You WILL not be in the bathroom or taking pictures or holding us up. You WILL be here!!” Fuck! This is a vacaction lady, lighten up! lol Despite the TGN the tour was great fun. We saw a ton of stuff – which didn’t even make a dent in all the stuff to see in SF, I’m sure, but had a fabulous time. (My shin splints keep telling me that and I believe them! :)) We did Sausalito, Alcatraz (from a distance) the Golden Gate Bridge, The Presidio, Golden Gate Park, Nob Hill, Russian Hill, Grace Cathedral, Chinatown, Lombard Street and a couple other things I’m blanking on but it was great.

So we get back from the tour and take the cable car to our hotel. We’re exhausted but we’ve been keeping in phone contact with Lisabea, Wendy and Rosie so we meet them in the hotel bar and hug and squee and talk at a deafening level and talk, and talk, and talk! Omg – I talk A LOT but I think I talked enough for 2 weeks in 2 days! lol

So KB, Alice, Sula, Lisabea & her wonderfully tolerant hubby and I all went for sushi. It was wonderful. We had such a great time about books and sex – really loudly! Unfortunately I had to leave dinner early to catch my plane back to reality. Reality sucks! lol

I was thoroughly “done” by the time I got home that night…or should I say the next morning. I crawled in bed and thought I’d never warm up. haha. (SF is chilly!!)

Overall it was a fabulous trip and I can’t wait to actually attend the RWA conference next year in DC!

Again – so sorry for the delay – I had a horrendous time with photos and power outages and oh dear heaven sheer frustration!

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