Tuesday, April 7, 2009
exploring....
so i tried to get out and see the lovely scenery western mass has to offer while i've been out there. one saturday i explored a trail that parallels the railroad tracks and lets you see these lovely keystone bridges that are the oldest of its kind. unfortunately the trail was still really muddy so half the time i had to walk on the railroad tracks. that is.....until i saw signs posted that certain parts of the tracks had high voltage electrical currents running through them. so they warned you not to walk on them. which i thought was very nice of them.
i left my heart in san francisco.....
so sometimes i have to travel for my job. okay. i guess these days, it's more like all the time rather than sometimes. i know i've been very very bad at not updating my blog and i'm gonna try and do better. i promise.
last weekend, work needed me to do an emergency trip to san fran. and of course it was quite the trial for me to have to fly off to san fran and revel in the sun and good food and the wonder of japantown and shopping for 48 hours. but somehow i managed to do it.
with the help of a little elf named janelle. she came along for the ride and it was a whirlwind trip. our flight left at 8:30 am on friday and we called a cab to come and take us to the airport. on the way to the cab, ms. janelle took a spill down the grassy hill in front of my apartment. thank goodness there were no grass stains and no major injuries but it did jack up her hip a bit. but a star trooper she is....and she pressed forward and accepted the first class seat on the plane to san fran.
we landed a few hours later and grabbed another cab (cabs seem to be theme in this trip; i think we took 7 cabs in one day). i told the cabbie the address we needed to go to - a not-so-great neighborhood in san fran (which i had no idea even existed!). about two blocks from our final destination, he stopped the cab and told us to get out. he said that was as far as he could go and he had another "appointment" he had to get to. huh? i was super duper confused but not one to outstay their welcome, we scrambled out of the cab and i threw some money at him. and we walked the last few blocks.
our whole purpose of the trip was to deliver these secret boxes to a-place-i-cannot-name location. the original secret boxes had been shipped a few days before from alaska, but because of some volcano up there, fed ex had a hard time getting their deliveries out. so we were worried that the secret boxes wouldn't get to the secret location on time. but lo and behold, when we walked into the lobby of our final destination, guess what was sitting there? yep. the original set of secret boxes. so we turned back around, grabbed another cab to our hotel, shipped the extra set of secret boxes home, and played the rest of the day in japantown.
now japantown is a slice of heaven because it reminds me so much of the motherland - korea. with its yummy food, grocery stores that contain unimaginable treasures (like eyebrow razors, car air fresheners that smell like magical apples, and soft candies that feel like pillows in your mouth), sticker photo booths, and of course stationary stores that have notebooks that say: To produce music is also in a sense to produce children.
several hours later, we took another cab back to the hotel, ordered room service for dinner and watched mindless tv. we had tickets to see Leslie and the LY's that night so we had to regain our strength after doing so much mindless shopping and eating. we had a minor disaster on the way to the concert that involved some lost credit cards in a runaway cab. but we didn't let this slow us down and we kept pressing on .......to see below woman rap and jiggle on stage with her backup singers dressed as lions. it was pretty dang awesome.
we slept in sunday morning and explored nob hill. we ate at this little cafe and stuffed our faces with omelets and french toast before heading off to the shopping district. oh and i bought some new eye glasses on the way too. and then it was back to the airport to catch our flight home. yep. i could get used to spending my weekend like this.
last weekend, work needed me to do an emergency trip to san fran. and of course it was quite the trial for me to have to fly off to san fran and revel in the sun and good food and the wonder of japantown and shopping for 48 hours. but somehow i managed to do it.
with the help of a little elf named janelle. she came along for the ride and it was a whirlwind trip. our flight left at 8:30 am on friday and we called a cab to come and take us to the airport. on the way to the cab, ms. janelle took a spill down the grassy hill in front of my apartment. thank goodness there were no grass stains and no major injuries but it did jack up her hip a bit. but a star trooper she is....and she pressed forward and accepted the first class seat on the plane to san fran.
we landed a few hours later and grabbed another cab (cabs seem to be theme in this trip; i think we took 7 cabs in one day). i told the cabbie the address we needed to go to - a not-so-great neighborhood in san fran (which i had no idea even existed!). about two blocks from our final destination, he stopped the cab and told us to get out. he said that was as far as he could go and he had another "appointment" he had to get to. huh? i was super duper confused but not one to outstay their welcome, we scrambled out of the cab and i threw some money at him. and we walked the last few blocks.
our whole purpose of the trip was to deliver these secret boxes to a-place-i-cannot-name location. the original secret boxes had been shipped a few days before from alaska, but because of some volcano up there, fed ex had a hard time getting their deliveries out. so we were worried that the secret boxes wouldn't get to the secret location on time. but lo and behold, when we walked into the lobby of our final destination, guess what was sitting there? yep. the original set of secret boxes. so we turned back around, grabbed another cab to our hotel, shipped the extra set of secret boxes home, and played the rest of the day in japantown.now japantown is a slice of heaven because it reminds me so much of the motherland - korea. with its yummy food, grocery stores that contain unimaginable treasures (like eyebrow razors, car air fresheners that smell like magical apples, and soft candies that feel like pillows in your mouth), sticker photo booths, and of course stationary stores that have notebooks that say: To produce music is also in a sense to produce children.
several hours later, we took another cab back to the hotel, ordered room service for dinner and watched mindless tv. we had tickets to see Leslie and the LY's that night so we had to regain our strength after doing so much mindless shopping and eating. we had a minor disaster on the way to the concert that involved some lost credit cards in a runaway cab. but we didn't let this slow us down and we kept pressing on .......to see below woman rap and jiggle on stage with her backup singers dressed as lions. it was pretty dang awesome.
we slept in sunday morning and explored nob hill. we ate at this little cafe and stuffed our faces with omelets and french toast before heading off to the shopping district. oh and i bought some new eye glasses on the way too. and then it was back to the airport to catch our flight home. yep. i could get used to spending my weekend like this.
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