Got up, showered, breakfast and packed up my gear as I was leaving Santa Cruz later :( I really like this place, but pretty excited to be hitting up San Fran later! I said goodbye to Owen and Bruno and then after hanging about to FaceTime my sister she told me that it would be best to do it tomorrow instead, I only had a couple hours to kill until my bus so I finally checked out the huge pier, I think it's the biggest in Cali but will have to double check that.. I walked all the way to the end and got a few decent snaps, there were heaps of sea lions lazing in the water and a bunch right on the dock attached to the pier, you could get right up close to them and they were making a ton of noise, a couple of them were huge too! I then decided to give my tan a quick top up with an hour or so on the beach before heading back to hostel via the local arcade, it was a pretty sweet place but didn't end up playing anything. I got back to the hostel and gathered my gear and made my way to bus station, it was only a 10 minute walk but it was so hot it felt a lot longer... I made it there and got my ticket and shortly after the bus turned up, put my bag in the hold and found a seat, it was only a short bus to San Jose and then a 15 minute wait with a transfer to San Francisco. Both buses were good so no complaints here and I made it to San Fran about 6:30pm I managed to find some public transport that got me to pretty much outside my hostel so I jumped on a bus and was at the hostel by 7pm I got checked in and got my bed (which was super nice again) and met my roommates, I ventured downstairs to cook dinner and met some Aussie guys who I joined at their table, when I was done with dinner I headed out to the shop and bought a few beers and had a couple drinks with them. We then had a few games of pool and after a while some Irish chaps played us at doubles. When we were finished with pool I joined the Irish guys for a few drinks and surprisingly being with the Irish ended up getting a wee bit drunk.. I tried to make it back to the room and as I got to the door one of the Irish guys came out and talked me into one more beer, I did have just the one and ended up ninja sneaking my way out of the social area so I didn't get forced into another drink! I managed to make it to my bed incident free, hit the pillow and crashed for the night