I left my heart in San Francisco

California was the most amazing trip I have ever been on, hands down. The whole 4 1/2 days were a party, and so many good times were had. The whole trip was a "you had to have been there moment" so I'll tell you the adventures we went on, but if it doesn't seem that amazing to you, I'm sorry.

Day #1/2) I had been texting Trent all day, freaking out about how we were going to leave that night. The day went by incredibly slow. Trent and Mike came and got me at around 8, and we packed up my stuff, picked up Dani, and made a trip to Walmart and the gas station. We met up with Landon's car, and we were finally on the road by 10 pm. In Trent's truck it was me, him and Dani. In Landon's car there were Landon, Mickey, Mike, Emily and Whitney. I stayed awake the entire 9 1/2 hours, and Trent and I just blasted music, and sang along, and chatted the entire time. I was all hyped up on energy drinks, oh boy. We rolled into Loomis (and Nat's house) at about 7:30 am. We unpacked our stuff and slept until 11 am.


Day #1) After sleeping for about 3 hours, we woke up and got ready, and met up with Jason's car, who had come up a day earlier. There were Jason, Jason (Ribs), Jeff and Paul. We met up with them at Muir Woods, a sort of national forest. We hiked around and took some great pictures. We then headed to In n Out for lunch. We tried to find a beach, but the GPS system in Jason's car took us to the top of a hill. We hiked down this shrubbery filled hill, and after like an hour, finally made it to the shore - which consisted of lots of rocks, with the ocean crashing into them. We drove the hour and a half back to the Savage's and hung out a bit. The last two cars rolled in - one with Jordan, Colton and Nat in it, and one with Jj, and Brad. Finally, the whole gang was there!


Day #2) We woke up, showered, and hit the race track. Seriously though, we went to an indoor race track. It was really intense. I went way slow, and got a lot of crap for it, but oh well. Then we hit up In n Out again, and then went back to the Savage's. We played some Rockband, ate some food, and then headed off to the Chapman's for some late night hot tubbing. The Chapman's house/yard is amazing, and huge, and we fit all 17 of us into the hot tub! We also did a bit of a polar bear swim, and we caught a frog, and a few of us (myself included) kissed it, and we sang at the top of our lungs BSB and Britney Spears. We drew faces on Mike and Brad's chests, and watched Hercules when we got back home.


Day #3) Nat's birthday, and the day we went to San Francisco. The girls woke up early, and we left at about 10:30 am. Connie (Nat's mom) drove me, Em, Dani, Whit, Nat, Colton and Jordan. It was my first time in San Francisco, and I fell in love, hardcore. We shopped, and ate, and walked around the streets. We met up with the rest of the boys and Nat's fam at about 3 pm. We headed up to Chinatown, and then we went on over to Pier 39. Hard Rock Cafe, sea lions, the bush man, Trent being conned, the ocean, the Goldon Gate Bridge, just everything was so magical to me. I'm like a little kid, I loved it so much! We ate dinner at the Boudin factory, and we hit up Ghiridelli Square for amazing ice cream sundaes. We left at about 10:00 pm or so, and so we made it back to Nat's at about midnight. We then of course had to have the "band" sing Nat's birthday song, and then we got a repeat of Em's.


Day #4) Sunday, and our last day :( We woke up, went to Sacrament at their ward, then came back and packed up the cars. It took us about a half hour to say goodbye. Paul and Connie had become like parents to us, and even just saying goodbye to each other took forever even though we were all leaving to go to the same place. The ride home took 3 extra hours, since we got caught in crazy traffic, and a weirdo snow storm up Donner's pass, and then we got caught in another extreme snow storm somewhere in Nevada. It was kind of scary, but Trent and I just blasted our music, and exchanged our life stories, and we hit up In n Out one last time. We made it home at about 3:30 am on Monday morning. As were were unpacking our stuff at the Riv, it took about another 15 minutes to say goodbye to each other, even though we knew we were just going to see each other later that day.

We all became SO close on this trip. Our whole group is so physical, I have to say. We're pretty much all best friends now. We seriously spent about 99% of the time in some sort of physical contact, whether it be sitting by each other on car rides, cuddling during movies, sleeping in the same bed, holding hands in San Francisco... We were always together. This was the best trip I have ever been on. This whole group of friends is so great. Landon's mission call came while we were gone, and so he opened it last night - he's going to the Peru, Lima Central mission, so that is really exciting for him. We definitely build some long lasting bonds on this trip, that's for sure.

**Sorry this was such an insanely long post. Also, there are tons more pictures of the trip on my facebook profile :)