Travel Day 1: Frisco

Megan and I have had unbelievable luck today. It started at the airport when we were checking my bags and one of them weighed 50.4 pounds and the other weighted 49.6 pounds. We didn’t have to pay any extra because together they weighed exactly 100 pounds. After going through security at the airport we saw this really cool plane with the UW logo on it, and on our flight to San Francisco, there was a baby sitting next to us who slept for the whole flight. After we landed we went to baggage claim, and my bags were the first two to come out. Then it was off to the prestigious, one star, Howard Johnson Hotel in South San Francisco.


After hanging out in our room for a little bit, we decided to take a trip downtown to get some dinner. We took the free shuttle back to the airport to catch the BART and go downtown (the BART is San Francisco’s version of Seattle’s SLUT or Monorail, but much older and louder.) When we got to the airport, we found out that to ride the BART into town it would be $16 each - round trip. That was way too expensive for us so we asked the ticket agent man if there was a bus we could take. He basically looked at us like we were crazy and so we explained that as poor college students we were not going to pay that much money so the bus was more practical. He must of thought it would be too unsafe for us or something because he then gave us an extreme one time “student discount”. After showing him our student ID’s he gave us tickets to ride the BART for $1.50 each – round trip!

The BART dropped us off in the Westfield shopping mall that had really annoying escalators that rounded up about 10 stories. We then walked outside to find a place to eat and after a block of walking and seeing some sketchy people we decided to go back into the mall and eat in the food court. Right as Megan and I were taking our last bite of dinner, the fire alarm in the mall went off and a man came over the intercom telling everyone to evacuate for an emergency. We decided to just head back to the BART and go home.

Now we are just hanging out in the hotel watching “Are You Smarter Than A Fifth Grader” and Megan is yelling at the TV. I am very tired though and will probably fall right to sleep after I track Santa with NORAD on Google.

Continental breakfast in the morning, and then off to Hong Kong! Hopefully our good luck continues!

Getting dropped off at the airport.



Bryce came to see me off!



Here we go!