"You have to include that joke in your recap," said Kate. "When you write the recap."
"I am (writing a recap)?" I asked.
"Yes," stated Kate. "You are."
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"...It's Sunday morning over were you guys are, and despite my jealousy I hope you'll all have a great time (and take pictures! ahem)," wrote Lusine.
To which I've decided, oh well, "You'll hear about the trip (maybe with pictures too) in my blog, which I'll type a entry in, next morning."
So, my salutations to the two ladies. Here's a long and detailed recap of the events of yesterday. Blogger won't let me upload pictures this morning, so you'll have to go under my yahoo account to see the photos (#9-19, though Anna went 'trigger-happy' and took many more pictures of all kinds of things until her camera ran out of batteries, so ask her for pictures too). Cheers.
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It was a gray and cloudy morning when we met at Costco, which was very empty, due to the fact that most people had better things to do on a Sunday morning (i.e. before 9am) than to meet in front of a store that doesn't even open until 10am. Ashley had apparently left for Arkansas, and Christine's moving in to Berkeley (good luck, Christine!), Soniya's working at the Jazz Festival so, when the counting began, the group consisted of Anna, Kate, Malvina and I.
We played around with the ticket machines which for reasons I can't fathom only returned changes in coins. Therefore, when Anna inserted a twenty dollar bill, it sounded like she'd suddenly won lottery. Oh the clinking. Oh the number of coins. Oh the-- Chuckee? Chucky? Cheese tokens. Token. Singular, I hope. One has to wonder how it got in there. But Anna had a cat-shaped purse which she was very excited about. Look! It's like a cat!
The train came on time. That was nice.
The trip over to SF involved stopping at San Carlos, taking a bus to downtown SF, then taking another bus from there to the Golden Gate Park. Getting off at San Carlos was not very eventful...until we saw the bus arriving when we're still some distances away from it. There was running. We came up to the bus, where it stopped at the red light, to have the driver indicate with his hands that the bus stop was in fact at the next ...block (well, it was sort of a block, given the train-station set up). So? More running. But we caught the bus on time, which allowed us to catch the other bus on time (always a good thing), and during the course of the entire trip got to listen to the enlightening conversation between Malvina and Kate on the usage and effect of drugs vs steroids, which drew some very odd looks from our fellow passengers. (But we're teenagers, so we got to get away with saying an awful lot of strange things.)
Met Victoria at Park from which point we went to the conservatorium. There were lots of plants. We looked at the plants. There was also a butterfly exhibit in place while we visited which was very nice, which I thought was nice, in theory. However my current tolerance for butterflies is "no more than three live ones", and there was an entire ROOM full. After a few minutes I decided that I wasn't too keen on getting over my phobia on the spot (didn't feel particularly like suffering that day) and left to the room. Got Kate to take pictures for me though. Thanks Kate.
We met a survey taker on our way out, who insisted on us taking a survey. "It'll only take a few minutes," he said, "And I'll even help you with the hard questions."
He began by inquiring the number of people in our group, then our age bracket. 25-30? He tried. 18-24? Ye-es, we agreed. Malvina gave Kate a sideways look. "Well, she's 17." To which Kate very emphathetically stated that there was only seven days left, SEVEN. To which the survey taker (a guy) remarked that he's a virgo too. Oookay, we thought, and waited for the next question.
"What's your reason for coming to the conservatory?" He inquired politely (and he's always polite, by the way). My first thought was, because Malvina wanted to go to the restroom, which I can't very well say, so I said something along the lines of "because we know where it is." Which, I think, the guy found disappointing.
We wandered over to the outside gardens after that. At this point Anna was asking repeatedly if we were going to have lunch, so we sat down on the bench by the chrysanthemum garden and had lunch (and I illegally fed a bird but shh, don't tell).
Should we try to find a shuttle or wander, we wondered, after lunch. Wander, we decided, and therefore did, passing by the survey taker (poor guy) again (there were actually a surprising number of them that day), upon which Kate cried "Avert your eyes! Avert your eyes!" I think we concluded that survey takers are the current equivalent of social leprosy, and from that point on, whenever Kate saw a survey taker she would say "Avert your eyes!"
We saw a dancing class outside of De Young Museum. That was very odd. And Anna is apparently obsessed with mini coopers, letting us know-- one way or another-- whenever she spotted another one. At one point I think she started talking to them, saying how cute they are. I wasn't entirely sure, but we continued our wondering and eventually arrived at Stowe Lake.
Okay, far too long, breaking this into two posts.
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