Weekend in San Francisco
Two weeks ago, camp got cancelled due to the air being too toxic to breathe which i've already blogged about in a previous blog! So the staff was given a 4/5 day break to basically stay indoors or leave the campsite.
For a couple of these days we stuck around. One of those days being Kelly's 21st. Kelly is one of my fellow Aussies here and she is just the bomb! So some of the girls threw her a surprise party and invited anyone from camp to come along. It was alot of fun although watching Kelly get mail day after day made me want my own mail haha....but it was fun to eat chocolate and candy from home because she shared with us. It really was a tonne of fun though, there was candy and drinks galore and lots of 'bonding'. Yay!
The rest of the break we all decided to go to San Francisco.
It was such an amazing time and even though I've been to San Fran before, the experience was different because i was with friends!
So me, amy, neil, pam, kelly, megan, latisa and jeremiah all headed to SF. One of the guys, justin, joined us for the weekend too because he lives in Antioch which is closer to San Fran, so we just met up with him! It was a really good time of getting to know them all better too and as a result we're all that much closer which is so cool!
We stayed in a dodge motel and the van that we took had a window that didn't do up so any valuables had to be taken in with us because there was no point locking the doors haha...
We had lunch at Pier 39 and also visited the Golden Gate Bridge. I saw it more the first time i went. Too much fog and smoke clouded our view. It was great to be back at a place i'd come to 11 years ago!
We had a lot of camp fun too. There were a whole group of people waiting for a show to come on in a public stage area. So we all walked on the stage, held a pose for a minute or so and then walked off - a good laugh! But then we started getting braver and so true to camp form, Megan took the stage and did one of our camp songs. We all hid in the audience and when she got up, we helped her out by repeating the chant. Some people loved, some people hated it but the moral of the story is we had a good laugh and alot of fun!
Before we left for the afternoon we participated in a few freezes, actually ALOT of freezes. Btw, Sydney, i'm disappointed that you did a freeze without me and i watched YOU ALL SUCKED! haha....annnnnyway.....It was so much fun because we'd time it so that we all froze for 2 minutes. There was one point where we actually had a huge crowd watching us! Another time when someone joined in with us - he thought he was a hero! lol....we seriously just had so much fun!
Before we went home i went to my first baseball game and let me tell you it was HUGE!!!!! It put our footy to shame, seriously?! The place was massive! And the game was amazing! We only had standing room only but it was good just to be there and scream our lungs out! They played that baseball music you hear in all the movies too which was really cool. On the screens they even had 'we celebrate 125 years with the salvation army', we all cheered hahaha....The game was between the San Fran Giants and the Oakland A's. Apparently Oakland (which is where i'm stopping over to go to Seattle) is a rough part of California, very ghetto. Can you imagine how we felt to have to leave our van and go and watch the game IN Oakland!!! lol....we were blessed to still have everything in tact when we got back to the game!
We stayed at a previous staff's house on the way home and on our way we visited world market which is a store that sells international products so it was good to feel like home in the Aussie aisle! I bought a packet of Tim Tams which didn't last let me tell you! Everyone LOVED 'em!!!
I love all the people that we went with so much, they are SUCH good value!
Alisha xoxo
For a couple of these days we stuck around. One of those days being Kelly's 21st. Kelly is one of my fellow Aussies here and she is just the bomb! So some of the girls threw her a surprise party and invited anyone from camp to come along. It was alot of fun although watching Kelly get mail day after day made me want my own mail haha....but it was fun to eat chocolate and candy from home because she shared with us. It really was a tonne of fun though, there was candy and drinks galore and lots of 'bonding'. Yay!
The rest of the break we all decided to go to San Francisco.
It was such an amazing time and even though I've been to San Fran before, the experience was different because i was with friends!
So me, amy, neil, pam, kelly, megan, latisa and jeremiah all headed to SF. One of the guys, justin, joined us for the weekend too because he lives in Antioch which is closer to San Fran, so we just met up with him! It was a really good time of getting to know them all better too and as a result we're all that much closer which is so cool!
We stayed in a dodge motel and the van that we took had a window that didn't do up so any valuables had to be taken in with us because there was no point locking the doors haha...
We had lunch at Pier 39 and also visited the Golden Gate Bridge. I saw it more the first time i went. Too much fog and smoke clouded our view. It was great to be back at a place i'd come to 11 years ago!
We had a lot of camp fun too. There were a whole group of people waiting for a show to come on in a public stage area. So we all walked on the stage, held a pose for a minute or so and then walked off - a good laugh! But then we started getting braver and so true to camp form, Megan took the stage and did one of our camp songs. We all hid in the audience and when she got up, we helped her out by repeating the chant. Some people loved, some people hated it but the moral of the story is we had a good laugh and alot of fun!
Before we left for the afternoon we participated in a few freezes, actually ALOT of freezes. Btw, Sydney, i'm disappointed that you did a freeze without me and i watched YOU ALL SUCKED! haha....annnnnyway.....It was so much fun because we'd time it so that we all froze for 2 minutes. There was one point where we actually had a huge crowd watching us! Another time when someone joined in with us - he thought he was a hero! lol....we seriously just had so much fun!
Before we went home i went to my first baseball game and let me tell you it was HUGE!!!!! It put our footy to shame, seriously?! The place was massive! And the game was amazing! We only had standing room only but it was good just to be there and scream our lungs out! They played that baseball music you hear in all the movies too which was really cool. On the screens they even had 'we celebrate 125 years with the salvation army', we all cheered hahaha....The game was between the San Fran Giants and the Oakland A's. Apparently Oakland (which is where i'm stopping over to go to Seattle) is a rough part of California, very ghetto. Can you imagine how we felt to have to leave our van and go and watch the game IN Oakland!!! lol....we were blessed to still have everything in tact when we got back to the game!
We stayed at a previous staff's house on the way home and on our way we visited world market which is a store that sells international products so it was good to feel like home in the Aussie aisle! I bought a packet of Tim Tams which didn't last let me tell you! Everyone LOVED 'em!!!
I love all the people that we went with so much, they are SUCH good value!
Alisha xoxo
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