Thursday, September 21, 2006

   Stuck To My Katamari: San Francisco and FMA

Current Mood: Fullmetal If I told you I was abducted by aliens would you believe me? I doubt it. How about if I told you I was in San Francisco, more specifically Pacific, California at my cousin's wedding. Would you believe that? Not without proof you say, well, have a gander at this! Golden Gate Bridge as seen from the sunroof in our car. You can see John's leg in the refection! lol FYI: Going into SF there is a $5 toll to cross the Golden Gate Bridge but none to go the other way. The Bay Bridge on the other hand only cost $3 to cross. John and I drove to California for my cousin Wesley's wedding. The wedding was held on the beach at this place called the Pacifica Beach Resort. Check out that link if you want to have a look around the place. If you click on the link to pictures of the rooms we were in Room 303. They say they have high speed internet but when we got to our room we couldn't get online. It was hardwire internet so I think there was something wrong with the plug-in. The only wireless internet they had was in their restaurant but we couldn't use that either since they reserved the entire restaurant for the reception. A reception that was the best wedding reception we've attended...including our own! Anywho, so the entire time we were there we couldn't get online. Not that we had lots of spare time to get online but it would have been nice. It felt funny not to be able to check email and work on theO. Here's a picture from the deck outside our room. Back on the topic of the resort, it was very nice during the day but at night it kinda turned into the hotel in the Silent Hill game. John snapped some pictures out the back window of the area behind the resort and it's like you were just waiting for a Closer to come lumbering out of the creepy trees or one of those nurses would come limping down the path. In addition to this the kick plates on the wooden doors were taking a beating from being in the salty ocean air. Looks like normal during the day but in the dim light of the walkway it reminds me of the stuff that crawls up the walls in Silent Hill. Here, let me share with you the creepiness. Welcome to Silent Hill The creeping crud is on the doors! Statement time! This was my first time to explore the San Fran area and let me tell you, those streets are insane! I dub thee the "City with NO LEFT TURNS allowed!" It seemed like every single cross street had those no left turn signs. The only way you could turn left was to turn right, loop around to another street and use it to drive straight across. Otherwise you would never make it to the left side of the road! Those crazy San Fransicans! Okay, back on the subject of the beach and ocean. Now that was a bunch of fun. We wandered around this touristy area in Pacific and I picked up some gifts for my friend Jen who was doggie sitting for me. John picked up some local micro-brews which were pretty tasty. It was fun doing the cheesy tourist stuff. We also took an early morning walk on the beach. John with his camera, me with my coffee. Life was good. It was just beautiful. Surfers were out in the water and people were walking their dogs. That was something I thought was really cool, the beach was dog friendly! All the dogs looked like they were having a wonderful time. It made me miss my doggies all the way back home in Washington. But you know what, it's hard to be sad when watching happy dogs playing on the beach. Now here's a bit of fun... A surfer enjoying the waves. A surfer not enjoying the waves. Here's the story behind the surfboard. While John and I were standing at the edge of the water chatting we notice a surf board with no surfer attached. It eventually just washed up right in front of us. We look into the breaking waves and there is a lone surfer swimming to shore. As we waited in front of the board for the owner to swim back to retrieve it John snapped this picture of the board coming to shore. Ok, enough of the San Fran stuff, on to site related news. Some of you may have noticed I published three, yes, three Fullmetal Alchemist screeners on the front page of theO. If you get a chance check them out. They are for Volume 12, Volume 13, and the movie. Feel free to chime in and leave a comment on those screeners. Well, I guess that is about it right now. Adam has put me on a new little project so I best be getting that going. Hope all is right in your world and life is treating you kindly. Things have been pretty good for me. I wish you all much happiness and joy. Later y'all! Cookies and Comments Everyone: Instead of comments I'll leave you with this KD/FMA crossover picture. It just seems very fitting with my theme and the massive amount of FMA reviews I just completed. Enjoy the silliness.

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