San Francisco Day 4/5

So here's a recap of the rest of our trip. Photos are on flickr and facebook, if you haven't seen them yet.

Day 4

Today was cultural day. First stop was California Academy of Sciences. It was really cool. It had an aquarium with sharks, eels, different fishys and Philippine Coral Reef. Also, had a Rainforest Replica in a dome. It had all the different layers of the Rainforest along with wildlife. Pretty neat.



It also had penguins, of course. Not the ones we have here, but these were little and cute.



Another interesting part, was the living roof. It was 2 acres of plantlife on the roof of the building, with all different varieties of California's wildlife.




Next stop was the De Young Museum. It was ok. Had mostly modern art and sculptures. The fun part was the observatory they had. It had an excellent view of the city, without climbing several stories (there was an elevator).



Mikey, being the baseball fan he is, we made a stop to At&t park to watch the Giants/Dodgers game. The park was really nice. It had good view of the bay, too bad we didn't get to see a splash hit. The best part is the food selections they have. Everything you could possibly think of, they had. If they didn't, you could bring it in. Yes, you could bring food into the park. Some couple was eating sushi from outside. It was great. Problem was it was too cold, so we didnt' stay through the entire game...plus it wasn't the Tigers. haha.




Day 5

Chinatown and Union Square

Chinatown is huge. If you've ever been to Chicago's chinatown, this one was twice as big. They say it is the largest one in the country, so that makes sense. So many stores, restaurants, everything. Cool thing was the Golden Gate Fortune Cookie Factory. It's the only place where they make fortune cookies by hand. Haha, I had to pay 50 cents for this picture:




Union Square is the shopping district of the area. Every store (cheap and expensive) that you could think of, was here. From Tiffany & Co. to Old Navy, it's a shoppers dream...and Mikey's nightmare. Haha. Did a little bit of shopping and did one last cable car ride just for fun (since we could). Then off to Michigan.

We are home!

So we made it home safely. Arrived yesterday night after a long day of traveling. First off, Europe was tons of fun. Lots to do, eat and drink. We of course, have many pictures, which are currently being uploaded onto flickr (all 626 of them).

To somewhat recap our trip:

First country was Mike's home country of Hungary. Flew into Budapest, where we met up with Mike's family, whom were extremely nice, wanted to feed us all the time, just like the filipinos. Problem, was the lack of english. It was funny how they would speak to me in Hungarian, and expected me to answer. His aunt would have a full on conversation with me, and I would just nod my head and smile. Luckily Mike was able to speak/understand some of it. We actually stayed outside of Budapest with the fam for a couple of days. Got to see Mike's mom's home town and such. Pretty neat, quaint little village. Definitely nothing like Michigan. The last 2 nights in Hungary we spent in the city, seeing sights and all. We did a cruise on the Danube at night which was beautiful.

Next off to Vienna, which was much bigger than expected. One thing I do love/miss about Europe is that you can drink on the streets, like beer. People were in front of Parliament just knocking down Gosser beer. How great is that!!! We really need to enact that rule here in the states. Also, Mike enjoyed their Eurodog which consists of this huge sausage in a baguette. Of course, we ate the wiener schnitzel.

Lastly was Prague, which personally was my favorite. Very historic and big. We did lots of walking. We went to Prague castle, which is one of the oldest castles in Europe. Also walked the famous Charles Bridge, which was under construction. Can't seem to get away from that. There were also a couple places that were closed due to construction. There was this place called Petrin Hill, which is a mini-Eiffel Tower on top of a hill. And of course, the tram thing that took you up to the hill was closed. So we hiked all the way up, as well as taking the 299 steps in the tower. We were quite pooped. But we topped off the days with Czech food and beer. Their beer was pretty good. Didn't try the absinthe though which was sold everywhere. We were almost tempted to take some home, but knowing my luck, our luggage would be checked and it would have been found.

Anyways, overall, we had a great time, luckily we have a couple days to relax and get back used to the time difference.

Short Vacation!!

So I'm off for 6 days for a little mini rest and relax. I get days off like candy at Easter, so they need to be used. So after a long week of work I decided to drink, obviously. Made me a bloody Mary.....or two, I'm a little buzzing as we write this. I like vodka it is my friend. So there was a lack of a stirring straws except for the penis straws Joyce got from her Bachelorette party. Well hell!! when in Rome! Ok, I'm sucking on a penis straw having a bloody Mary. DON'T JUDGE ME!!!!!!! It's funny to, when the liquid goes back down the straw, it collects in the cockles....balls. Anyways, so starts me Vacation, rest....relaxation and St. Pats day on Mon!!!! Yeah for me!

-mike

Ps no I'm not drunk blogging, if I was drunk blogging my American would be so much worste!!!1 oh and Joyce just said March is colon cancer awareness month. SO GET YOUR ROTOR ROOTER CHECKED OUT!!!!!