Monday 3rd September Labour Day It was america's Labour Day so we decided on a walk through North Beach and look around The Beat Museum. We had a lie in and a yummy homemade brunch. Omelettes and salad yummy! Picking up a Starbucks we walked to North Beach. We managed to get student tickets to The Beat Museum sweet saving! The museum was really interesting and I learnt loads about a movement I knew little about. Basically they were all drug addicted, sexually ...

Sunday 02/09/12 Finding the Hippies When I was younger and through watching films I imagined a San Francisco full of hills, trams (cable cars), the golden gate bridge, pretty wooden colourful houses, parks and hippies playing instruments in them. I'd found the Golden Gate Bridge, the cable cars, I'd found the pretty houses and hills in North Beach, so today we would find the hippies and see a band. Neil had booked us tickets back at home to see a punk band, Th...

Saturday 01/09/12 Today I met my mums sister for the first time. My aunty natty had moved to America 25 years ago. I was excited and kind of nervous. Yesterday we managed to find our first affordable grocery store on the way to the Golden Gate Bridge so we were able to cook ourselves a brunch, an omelette with spinach, onions, garlic! It was amazing to cook and have fresh ingredients. The tastiest meal we had at that point! We had new roommates arrive yesterda...

Friday 31/08/12 Tourist Day Today was brilliant! we woke up and caught the tram to Pier 33 it was a bit of a s*** journey, slow had to get off the squished onto another so we got off early and walked. We walked from pier 33 to 39 and saw the sea lions they smelt pretty bad but was funny watching them fight and bark at one another! The sun came out and we decided on a Rocket Boat ride, which was a speedboat that took us under the bay bridge and to the baseball st...

Thursday 30/08/12 Art Day After stumbling upon all the Art galleries yesterday on the way back from The Bay Bridge (not the Golden Gate Bridge) today we were going to see some exhibitions. The David Shrigley exhibition Brain Activity at YBCA (Yerba Buena Centre for the Arts) and the Cindy Sherman Retrospective at SFMOMA (San Francisco Museum of Modern Art). After eating breakfast and stealing bagels for lunch we spent the morning on wifi. Then after a picnic lun...