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we took BART in and got off at the Embarcadero station. then we walked through the street vendors to the fountain where they were taking down the Kristy Yamuguchi ice rink. we took a few pictures here and there and then crossed the street to the other side of the Embarcadero. we stopped and took pictures along the way, blah blah blah. we walked all they way down the piers, I took pictures of my door, and then when we were passing Pier 39 and there was Scuba Steve trying to get us to take a picture with him.
And then. (This is Ryan typing right now, just because this story is much better told from the third person.) Candace fell in love with a "one-legged guy" at the beach. And by "one-legged guy", I mean one-legged seagull. And by 'one-legged seagull', I mean, this one seagull in the middle of a swarm of about 50 of them. So most of our time at the beach was spent watching Candace, surrounded by a ravenous flock of seagulls (And I ran... I ran so far away... ok just kidding), hurling In-n-Out fries all over the place, with the hopes of her beloved 'one-legged guy' actually getting one, which I don't think ever even happened. I think she was kind of oblivious as to just the hilarity of the scene she was creating on the beach. There was a guy next to us who looked pretty confused about what was going on. Even his four year old son looked pretty bewildered. Candace The Seagull Whisperer Parker was quite a sight; spinning around wildly, seagulls swooping in from all directions amidst shrieks of "Oh! One-legged guy!" She even outdid this crazy old lady next to us, who was quietly doing yoga poses before spontaneously ripping off her clothes, revealing a swimsuit that should have been illegal on someone her age, running to the bay, getting a cupful of seawater and bringing it back to put in her purse. Weird. And yet, Candace was somehow more entertaining. Anyways.
So then we started walking up through North Beach, which is deceptively named seeing as how there is no beach (yeah I didn't know that until very recently). But anyways. It's like the Italian neighborhood, and its pretty wonderful. We passed this little comedy club on Columbus, and Alexander caught, out of the corner of his eye, that this comedian that we all love from YouTube (Show me your genitals; your gen-e-ta-li-a!!!!) was going to have a performance there. So here's one of his videos. Its pretty much a great satire on hip-hop.
(The sequel, E = MC Vagina, is even better.)
So anyways, yeah, we walked through North Beach and made our way past Washington Sqaure (of "And I....... will always fuck you!!!!!" fame) and up to Telegraph Hill; where we wanted to watch the sun go down. Oh, I took so many amazing pictures on the way. Rrrrg, that's a story for later. But anyways, yeah, so we got up there to the foot of Coit Tower, which was such a beautiful place to see everything, and Candace pretty much single-handedly cleared out the entire area for us. Yeah, so apparentely she was quoting this video that her and Alex knew about, but it completely sounded like she was making fun of Asian people, cause she was all doing this Engrish voice, really really loudly. And everyone there. Was Asian. So they all left. It was pretty much a solemn stream of asian moms and dads and kids away from where we were before Candace realized what it sounded like she was doing.
(Candace typing again) First of all, I was NOT making fun of Asian people!!! then we decided to walk down to Sansome to go the mall. so we took the stairs down and walked for awhile. so many good pictures were taken it's ridiculous. so when we got to California I asked Ryan if he would walk to the top of the hill with me so I could take a similar picture to this
it was dark though so we'll see. as we were walking up California I saw a traffic cone so I yelled at Ryan to stop and take a picture of me with it. I straddled it and the picture was hilarious. so we walked up to Mason and crossed the street a few times so I could stand in the middle and take pictures (I only had film left in my Pop 9 and Supersampler at this point, so hopefully some came out). but let me just say, it was absolutely the most beautiful view in the world. the city lights and the cars and the people and everything was wonderful. especially because I had anberlin playing in my ears.
(on a side note, I was pretty much listening to Lydia and anberlin ALL day and let me just say, it made San Francisco even better.)
then Ryan and I walked down to Powell and walked down to Union Square to the mall. we met up with Alex and Alex and went to Hot Topic. they had really cool records there so I bought a few for the covers. I looked for anberlin's Cities and I asked the guy and he said it would be under "A" if they did have it but then he added "Well sometimes we like to put them under "X", just to mess with you." then I bought my stuff from this really cool chick that had shaved her head and had A LOT of piercings. she was really nice. then Ryan and I RODE EVERY SINGLE ESCALTOR IN THE NORDSTROMS SECTION OF THE MALL. my dream had been made a reality. hahahahahahaa. then we went to take BART back when I realized I lost my ticket so I had to buy another one. so we got on the train and the CUTEST boys were sitting next to the door. Ryan and I sat down so we were facing them and freakin a, SO CUTE!!!!
(Ryan again:)Okay, so there were two of them. One of them had a beanie, and I called him as my own. He was so freaking cute, and also had the best legs ever. Anyways, so Candace, being the incredibly subtle person she is, proceeds to take pictures of them. I'll let her explain that one to you. Okay nevermind, she can't even do it. So she had Alex and Alex pose as if she was taking pictures of them, except that she wasn't, and you could so tell the camera wasn't pointed at them, it was pointed at those boys. And it was so obvious and they totally saw; the beanie boy bumped the other one on the leg and they bothlooked over at us and were kind of laughing. So then we tried to act all chill for a little while, until Candace again felt the need to forever capture their beauty on her memory card. She forgot to turn the flash off. It was probably the most embarassing moment of her life. Actually, knowing her, I'm sure it wasn't. But anyways, that was that; and those beautiful BART boys live on only in the Wii.
Ah, so, then we got home. We were tired, sore, and little bit moody. But we did have one thing that we needed to do - look at all the wonderful pictures we took. For most of the trip, I was using Candace's digital camera and I took so many great pictures of the Alexes, of the city, of random shenanigans and priceless memories. So we were all looking at the pictures, pretty much thinking, "ah, these are going to be so great when we put them on the computer". I was already in my mind thinking ofwhich ones I wanted to put on myspace and all that (yes, I am that lame). And then.
Somebody had the very bright idea of handing Alexandrea the camera.
We had just started to watch Rent, when Alex murmered: "Guys.... I think I deleted every single picture." I looked over at her and smiled, thinking she was completely joking. But she wasn't. Apparentely, the button for the trash can is right next to the button that switches viewing modes... and Alex had subconciously clicked through about three menus and erased the ENTIRE memory card. Ahhhhhh!!!!
In all seriousness though, it was really no big deal. Alex was so upset about it; she started to cry. I was a little upset for like two minutes but then I realized that everything was just fine. We had a wonderful,beautiful day in the city, and everyone was absolutely fine; nobody got hurt or raped or murdered or mugged or insulted (with the possible exception of the Asian families on Telegraph Hill, Candace) Haha, no, but seriously. I mean, people lose their entire belongings in house fires; all we lost was a memory card. Alexandrea cried so much; there was a fortress of soiled tissues in front of her after about 20 minutes.
so all in all, it was a wonderful day.
RANDOM FUNNY THINGS & QUOTES OF THE DAY:
-ACHOOOOO
-Taj Mahal!
-What's in my butt????
-Candace kissing David Cook (just a poster)
-Ryan having to explain to passersby
-One Girl, One Cup
-You're a mean seagull Herbert!!!!
-Sea Moose
-Bimbo 365
-Jon Lajoie
-(in Engrish) I could do dish all day
-Can I get a cheeseburger with extra trees?
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