San Francisco Love

I had a great time.

Yes I most definitely drank way too much, WAY too much. When I got there, my friend Sterling picked me up and we drove to Santa Cruz. When I got to his house, we played many many rounds of beer pong with his roommates and got incredibly wasted. As soon as I went to go to sleep, I could tell I was not feeling okay AT all,,, ran out the front door and puked all over their front steps.

Welcome to California.

The next day we drove around Santa Cruz and drove on Coastal Route 1! Which was part of my list that I wanted to accomplish! Then we watched the Yankee Game as they lost, went to his friends house and played drinking games, went to like 7 different bars and went drinking hardcore. We were with a bunch of people and it was a pretty good time. Finally we got back to his friends house and I think there was a mild porno going on in the hot tub but I was so drunk and tired that i went to sleep on the couch and let the craziness go on around me.

The next day we spent being entirely hung over and just lounged around and cooked dinner, watching the yankee game and passed out sooo early.

The next day we went to San Francisco and that was the best time ever!! Drove over the Golden Gate Bridge, went to Pier 39 and ate at Bubba Gump Shrimp, stayed at our BALLER hotel room at the Intercontinental Mark Hopkins Hotel which we got for $40 because I had a free night at hotels.com and we were able to use it that night for a hotel room up to $400 a night, so we tried to get the nicest one possible. And it worked.

We went out clubbing that night and had a GREAT time, I FINALLY got to dance and it was awesome and I loved every minute of it. We didnt get back to the hotel until like 5am.. oh man. Crazy night!

And the streets are crazy there!!!! I love it!!!

The next day we drove around San Francisco and went onto Haight Street, which was awesome, but I didnt have enough time to get out and go to all the stores I wanted to go to... which was probably better so I didn't spend lots of money, which I definitely could have on that road!!!

Then I had to leave :/

So everything I wanted to do in California and this is what I actually got done...

• Drive across the Golden Gate Bridge ----DONE!
  
  
  
  
  

• Go to a winery ----NOT done due to the massive amounts of alcohol i consumed every night
  
• Go to some awesome funky coffee shops ----DONE!!! Although I didnt go into many of them, but I did go into some cool ones.
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Santa Cruz Coffee Roasters

• Cable Cars! ------DONE!! I saw them and they were awesome!

• Alcatraz ---- Saw it from afar... def need more to go to it!
  
• MAYBE Yosemite National Park if I can get there! ---No way it was def too far!
  
• DRIVE on Route 1!!!!! -----DONE!!! Drove on it from Santa Cruz to San Francisco!!
  
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• Pier 39 (thanks Laura Marie for the idea!) ----DONE!!! Went to Bubba Gumps Shrimp
  

• Hate Street and Cha Cha Chas Restaurant (Thanks Seriouslyright? for the ideas!) ----DONE!!! I went to HAIGHT STREET! haha it was THE SHIT!!! I loveeeeed that street. I did not eat at Cha Cha Chas though :/

So.. my overall opinion on Cali was that it was really cool. BUT...... I still love New York... and I wish it was warm here all the time. Oh and I wish we had mad funky roads!! Cuz they are the best! But San Francisco was aweosme and I would love to go back and spend more time there.

I am planning on going to San Diego for my birthday in March hopefully. I would loveeee to go to southern California!! New goal!

Here are the rest of my awesome pictures :) CALIFORNIA PICS

West Coast

I am back!
I finally made it there! San Francisco was very awesome and so was Santa Cruz. I wish I spent more time in San Francisco but I'll take what I could get.

I'll write more about it tomorrow and put all my pictures up tomorrow as well, but here are a few :)

California Trippin

Im here! Having a good time.. consuming wayy to much alcohol and going to San Francisco today!

Everyone is so hippie and chilll....! So wasnt prepared for that from New York everyone is drives so slow! lol

Many pictures and updates to come...

hope everyone is having a lovely weekend!

Leaving for California Today

CALIFORNIA!!

I am leaving today at 6pm, I cannot wait!!!! This is really exciting, I cannot believe I am actually going.

I have been wanting to go to California since I was in high school and just never went. I have also not flown within the United States in more than four years, I have been going international every year AND I have not been on a vacation without T or by myself in more than 3 years. EEK. Breaking new records here.

It will be good to get away, especially after this crazy ass summer and drama I have been through because the last vacation I went on was to Peru, and DON'T get me wrong, I loved Peru and had a great time with T but that was a crazy up-in-the air time with our relationship so it was almost stressful as opposed to vacation-like.

I am excited for what this trip has in store for me.. I know that I want to:

• Drive across the Golden Gate Bridge
• Go to a winery
  
• Go to some awesome funky coffee shops
• Cable Cars!
• Alcatraz
• MAYBE Yosemite National Park if I can get there!
• DRIVE on Route 1!!!!!
• Pier 39 (thanks Laura Marie for the idea!)
• Hate Street and Cha Cha Chas Restaurant (Thanks Seriouslyright? for the ideas!)

Anywhere else I should stop by while in San Francisco?! ps... my friend helped me out with the domain name.... SO now when you type in www.novelistabarista.com it goes straight to my blog and is MINE :) I feel so official haha

Interactive Thursday is still on for tomorrow so don't forget!

Everyone have a good day :)

California Bound!

hi Wednesday, are we onto Friday yet?

photo credits: Laura Taylor

I am going to California!!!

Buying my ticket on Friday. My friend lives out there in Santa Cruz so I am going to fly out there Oct 21-25th and hang out. I CANNOT WAIT. I have never been to California and I have been DYING to go there for ever. I am extremelyyyyyy excited, you don't even know! BALLER!!!!!!!


Does anyone have any great places in the San Francisco - Santa Cruz area that I should definiltey go to? Coffee shops? Stores? Waterfalls? Anything awesome.. leave me a note!
I hope I will actually get back on the plane.... lol

-I hope you enjoyed my Jay story... that is like my infamous story.. so horrible yet such a crazy learning experience. I will never do THAT! again.
I am getting all these great emails from everyone about their stories and thanks again for sharing. I am happy to share! I love finding photos to try to capture the feelings.. its really hard!

-I am really excited for tomorrow's interactive thursday... lame, i know.. but I have a GREAT question inspired by my Irish friend Conor so hopefully you will like it!

Nothing really else going on...

-I hung out with a old friend of mine that was sort of my hook up buddy a while back (before T) and we went out to dinner and had a good time. He totally caught me off guard and kissed me and I was shocked! I was like "P you cannot DO that!" First of all you suck at it anyway, and secondly I am not ready for those motions in the road yet! I haven't seen you in how long?! Ugh, annoying. Kinda ruined the rest of the night.. I met some of his other friends who were cool but I was definitely not feeling the scene I was in.
Will not be doing that again! I felt bad, he kept asking me again and again... I figure, I hang out with him, I get it over with, the end. I should have known!

- I am in the process of paying off my credit card in full so that by the time November 1st comes and we are really moving into this apartment, I will only have one credit card left to pay! Woo hooooooo :)

-Did I mention the apartment?! If I didn't then my girl C and I will be moving into a 2 floor townhouse back in New York (not city) November 1st. It is a little more than we were hoping to spend, but honestly it's worth it. There was no security deposit, they allow pets (she has a dog, i have a cat) and let me tell you! There are like NO apartments that allow animals anywhere around here for under $2,000 a month. So this was an awesome deal. Heat and hot water included, parking, laundry. I mean, baller, is that only way I can describe it. The place is brand new. I am really excited.

NOT that I mind living at home, I like it.. its cool to be with my parents and my sister, but its just so far from everything.. I only have like a couple of friends that live in Connecticut with me and everything else is in New York.. my work, my other friends, my gym, my shelter, my school... its like driving back and forth every single day is getting really old real fast. I fill up my gas tank like every other day! And it is not cheap! Granted it is not as expensive as an rent, but still... I have to drive EVERY WHERE. I mean, barely anyone will drive up to see me, so its like I am always going to have to see them.

And then when I want to go out with my friends, I always have to drive home because it is such a pain in the ass to stay at someones house during the week.. yeah maybe I shouldn't go out during the week, but hey, I am trying to be as busy as possible so that I don't think of T or try to call him or text or ANYTHING.. therefore I cannot stay home!

so yeah, that is my life up to now. We will see how this weekend goes... I have GREY'S ANATOMY STARTING TOMORROWWWWW!!! HELLO! Cannot wait! And I have some people coming over on Friday and going to the city on Saturday, shelter on Sunday. Busy Busy...

eek... do I ever sleep?