I really enjoyed writing this blog. I normally write my blogs in one sitting but I took my time on this one and wrote it over a span of about a week. I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I did writing it! Enjoy!
If you haven’t read my coming out blog post from a year ago you probably should read it first. Find it here.
Let’s get this party hike started! Beautiful day on a beautiful trail! I’ve always wanted to hike to Alamare falls but never made any real plans to go … until now! It’s roughly a 8-9 mile hike but it is relatively easy. I’d rate it a 5/10 in terms of difficulty but I’ll give it another point because of the length so 6/10.
I thought I could get away with writing one blog for all the things that happened in May but alas I couldn’t. Here’s part 1!
1st: Davis/Sac Trip
Mika and I both took a Friday off and took a little trip up to Davis. It felt pretty good going back to the CoHo because there were so many good memories there but this trip was all about the food!
GGU only has one commencement a year so I had to wait 4 months after I graduated to walk. Silly, ain’t it? I didn’t even want to participate in commencement but my parents were very adamant about me walking so … yeah. It was held at the Paramount Theater in Oakland. It was a beautiful venue but that was probably the only beautiful/nice thing about it.
This is how we felt after waking up too damn early to go to this commencement that was highly unorganized and ridiculously informal. So not worth the 100 dollars >:[
Monday morning and Mika has to go to work meaning I had the next 8-10 hours to wander on my own. We grabbed breakfast together and I went back up to the room to chill because I felt like I was going to have another nosebleed (I did). I hung out in the room until lunch time and decided to take it easy for the day. I searched on TripAdvisor (because they don’t really use Yelp) for a place to eat and found Crepe Bar. I ordered the Zesty Chicken – smoked chicken, pepper jack, lettuce, and chipotle ranch. It was only alright but it did the job. I also ordered a Heineken because it was cheaper than ordering still bottled water (they didn’t serve tap water). Amsterdam’s tap water is one of the safest and cleanest in Europe .. probably why their beer is so damn good .. Anyway it was a little weird eating alone in the restaurant because I the only customer for more than half of the meal. Yikes.
Sunday morning view from our room – gray and wet.
Since Mika has Gold Status (or something) we got complimentary breakfast every day of our stay! AYCE breakfast? Count me in! Continue reading
We arrived back in Amsterdam around 6pm on a Saturday night. Our first order of business on a rainy, windy, ugly night was to find some hot food. Our hotel is right by Centraal Station and about a 10 minute walk away from Chinatown (except it is full of all Asians and not just Chinese). Nothing screams comfort like some Asian food! Continue reading
After dropping off our stuff at our hotel, we headed out towards the Eiffel Tower! We took the metro because it’s probably the easiest way to get around Paris. There is the Paris Pass if you’re going to stay for a couple days in Paris that is totally worth but since we were there for ~36 hours, we opted out of it. It’s definitely something to look into though!
We slept like babies the night before despite being super jet lagged and woke up a little later than planned. I had a nice little itinerary for our stay in Paris and waking up threw off our plans a little bit. I’m usually pretty anal about things like this especially because we were pressed for time but jet lag and traveling for over 10 hours is no joke. We both still felt super off balanced so it was good that our bodies got a nice rest. We grabbed some breakfast before heading over to The Lourve to start our day. We got there and saw a HUGE line outside! It turned out the museum had to open an hour late (thank goodness we woke up late) :P.
What do you think about? 