It's Sunday morning...and I'm tired. As I bet almost everyone else is right now, too. Yesterday, Corie, Bria, and I had some kind of adventure! It started out pretty good. We were gonna go to San Francisco to go get clam chowder in a breadbowl. Sounds like a relatively easy, quick trip, right? WRONG!
We got up at 9:00 to take the Amtrak down to Richmond, which cost $20 per person round trip. Then we had to take the Bart (a bay-area bus) from Richmond to Embarcadero, which is where Pier 39 is, and where all the cool shops and stuff are. So we got on the train easily enough--the trip was about an hour and a half. Then we got on the Bart bus--and we took the wrong one! Luckily, some scary girls sitting next to us asked us where we were going and told us we were on the wrong train. So we got off and switched trains. When we finally got off at Embarcadero, we were at Pier one--and we had to walk all the way to Pier 39! Needless to say, by the time we actually got our clam chowder at 2pm, it tasted really good. We walked around the pier area for about 2 hours, and then we decided to catch the 5:47 Amtrak back.
We managed to take a trolley (only $1.25! Yes!) with lots of weird homeless people back to the Bart, and once again, we got on the wrong train (bad idea to just guess on these types of things, apparently). And when we switched stations, the whole Bart computer system had gone down, so we had to sit around for about an hour before the Bart started running again. So we missed our train. We got to Amtrak in time for the 7 o'clock train, but it was delayed to 8 o'clock! So we didn't get back to Davis until 9:30 pm.
And this was all to spend just 2 hours in San Francisco!
But we met this cool Indian guy at the Amtrak station who was also going back to UC Davis, and he told us all the "insider info" on Davis. But the coolest part was that he was originally from India, and he had just come to America 4 years ago! So I got to ask him all about India. It was exciting.
Actually, it was pretty fun. We just had to do a LOT of waiting! We want to go back to San Francisco again, just not next weekend or anything. Right now I am so tired, I'm just going to be antisocial all day.