Monday of March 7, 2011 part II (The modern wonder of the world and other super fantastically awesome stuff)

I put my bags under the bus that would drive us around. It wasn't anything to talk about, so I won't. But it did have televisions! But we never used them. Anyways, we were introduced to our tour guide and drove off to one of the modern wonders of the world: The Golden Gate Bridge. Our tour guide explained to us how this is something special since a lot of people have not been on it in their life time. She also mentioned that the bridge had the highest suicide rate. I already knew most of the information that our tour guide told us, since our English teacher had us do research projects on different things in San Francisco. I did Muir Woods, but that was on Wednesday.

When I got off the bus, the golden gate bridge was sitting there in the distance. Seeing it in real life was pretty special like the tour guide said. As I was walking along I looked at the wires, and my eyes followed them up to the gate part (what do you call that? that big thing that sits over the bridge? Never mind). This made me pretty dizzy, walking and looking up at the top of the bridge while the wind nearly pushes you over. The wind was pretty hard. I couldn't imagine working on the bridge. When I looked to my right, I could see the entire city and then I could see Alcatraz; IN REAL LIFE!! It was awesome.

The walk was about 45 minutes long. The moment I walked off the bridge, the wind seemed to die down a little. We were now walking to our bus. The bus was going to take us to our first dinner at Pizza Market (I think that's what it was called). After dinner, we got back on the bus and headed for Union Square.

We didn't park right next to our destination, so we walked through San Fransisco, but not all of it of course. The sidewalks that I walked on were "paved with gold!". Well, I guess not paved with gold, but it had sparkles scattered everywhere on the sidewalk. Besides shops, another thing that populated this area was the buses and trolleys. I got to see one of the trolleys being turned int the opposite direction. After about five to ten minutes, we arrived at the mall. And the first thing that I saw were the words GODIVA. The best part of the entire mall.

Walking around the mall with just two other people was pure freedom. You could buy whatever the heck you wanted, and as long as you didn't get arrested you could do just about whatever the heck you wanted. The first thing I wanted to do was get some food. The first stop was a frozen yogurt place. It was pretty good. Next, we stopped at a coffee shop so that one of my friends could get some pastries. Our second to last stop was Borders. At first, there wasn't much to do, but then one of my friends screamed at the top of his lungs "THE ULTIMATE GUIDE TO CALL OF DUTY BLACK OPS BOOK!!!". I didn't really play any video games, so this didn't excite me as much as it excited my friends. I ended up reading a book full of "deep thoughts". They were pretty funny.

After five minutes of reading books (didn't think you'd hear me say that but I did), I struggled to grab the book out of my friend's hands. Our last stop would be GODIVA CHOCOLATE SHOP!!!! I ended up ordering a shake, of course that's not what it was called (it probably had fancier name). It was like going to heaven and then realizing that heaven was not as good as the shake so you made up your own world that was better than heaven and basked in the heat of the shake's awesomeness. It was that good.

When it was all over, we rode our bus to our hotel. It was La Quinta. It wasn't much, but all we would be doing is sleeping and watching T.V, so it didn't matter. It was a perfect first day, and I couldn't wait for Tuesday.