After going to look at the home stay, I went back to the hostel to meet up with Aileen, Ashley, and Jeneba. We were off to hit the town! We walked around for quite sometime looking for a little place on Columbus Street to grab some lunch. Everywhere was packed! We ended up at this place called Mo's. WOW. This place was the bomb. When we walked in you saw a grill rotating over volcanic rock, a pile of produce near the door, a counter full of people eating, and tables full. This little place was packed. We didn't wait long though. We got a seat up at the bar where we ordered burgers. Jeneba ordered an ahi tuna sandwich, and Ashley got some eggs and a pancakes with her burger.
Finally we decided to call a number. Everyone is so nice here. The person on the phone told us exactly where we needed to walk to for the right stop. A trolly comes and was absolutely packed. We asked the guy if there was anyway we could fit, and he said no there should be another trolly coming soon but he can't guarantee how packed that one will be either. So we just kinda stood on the corner, and continued to talk trying to decide what we wanted to do slash not really caring. Then were looking at the building were standing next to and we are like "oh! look at that its the trolly museum." I realize my headache finally went away. Just being silly girls. So I don't if this was luck, or if it was the crackcakes we had. But we all turn around to see this trolly coming out of the trolly museum. Stock empty.
We holler at the guy to see if we can get on this thing or if its being tested for repairs. He responds with "Happy New Year" Of coarse! We are so rude. "Happy New Year as well" we respond. The man on the trolly informs us that we can get on the trolly but he is going to the wharf. We really wanted to go to Union Square, but ya know what. We honestly just wanted to ride one of these things. So we jump on. We introduce our selfs to Carlos the Gridman (Gridman is what the trolly drivers are called). What an absolutely beautiful ride. You could see the whole entire city. If you ever visit San Fran I suggest you take this route down to the wharf because the view is amazing, we were so excited! Our first trolly ride was a private one! We didn't have to share it with anyone... that is till some people got on. Carlos was laughing at us, that we were so excited we didn't stop talking. We took pictures. I got a video of me singing the Rice-A-Roni song! So when we finally reached the end of our stop, Carlos instructed that everyone pay the man at the back of the trolly. We walked towards the back and no one was there, so we walk back around to find him now sitting on the trolly. We hold out our money, and he looks at us and says "What is this for?" We go "Well our ride of coarse!" The man instructs us to put our money away that this ride was free, and he hopes that we had a wonderful new year. What!!! We were so excited we started to hug him and hug Carlos. "That is so nice of you guys!" Then Carlos tells us to get on the trolly and he will take some pictures of the three of us hanging off the side. Wow. Our first time on a trolly, and we get a practically private ride, for free, and he was nice enough to take pictures for us.
After our amazing trolly ride, the girls and I go to Ghiradelli Square. It was like Willy Wonka! They handed us all a free square of Peppermint chocolate as we walk into this treasure room filled with bags of chocolate squares individually wrapped in different color foils. It was beautiful. We continued our way through a room of wall to wall people laughing and talking while eating ice cream cones and sundaes. We travel up the stairs where we have our ice cream order taken. Aileen gets this triple chocolate sundae with mint chip, Ghiradelli chocolate, a thick dark chocolate fudge on the bottom, hot fudge on the top. Ashley gets a Berry sundae with all different types of berry's and cheesecake inside the ice cream chocolate covered blueberries and whipped cream, and I got a Ghiradelli hot chocolate. We passed the ice cream sundaes and the hot chocolate around, savoring each bite. Nothing was left untouched. "We should be food critics" we discuss. I could totally do this everyday, traveling the world eating crackcakes and ice cream.
We discussed how amazing the day had been, and how we have a feeling that this year is going to be amazing. It's not often that a new year begins and you are excited for what it is going to bring. Majority of the time we celebrate the new year, and then continue our lives without really thinking about what is in store for us. These past few months, or even years have been extremely challenging. But every cloud has its silver lining. I believe that everything happens for a reason. Take everything with a grain of salt. It takes too much energy to be negative. You only live once, so you might as well have more smiles than frowns. If something doesn't work out the way you may have wanted it to, its because there is something greater waiting for your. Even if it maybe a death, or a job you didn't get, or a hardship during that time of your life, that detail makes you who you are... It puts strength in your heart to help you handle new situations you will have to deal with.
After we got done eating our ice cream, we headed back to the hostel. However we got sidetracked by Willy "Woo-Woo" Wong's playground. For a bunch of girls in our late 20's we sure had a blast. Woo-Woo... you know how to build a playground. This thing had fun slides, monkey bars, even a rock wall! We had a blast... in fact we couldn't stop talking about it. When in doubt, woo-woo it out. We finally made it back to the hostel where we all broke out in song of "A Whole New World" from Aladdin. You would have thought it was planned. It was like a spontaneous flash mob. Kat was on duty and was cleaning the bathroom at the time we did this, she ran out of the bathroom holding her sponge and spray bottle with a look of amazement on her face. It was perfect.
... for now
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