Not hiking to Alamere Falls, but on Limantour Beach

 Last Saturday, me, Janet, Chen, and Ricardo went to go hiking at Alamere Falls.

 

The drive there was around 2 hours or so. We drove past the Arch Rock trail area.

When we got there, it was pretty windy and still gloomy.

I read a review on Yelp that the location is right on point to the Alamere Falls trails, so I navigated to that address. No one looked up the directions to actually hike the place, so we just followed a trail that we saw when we got off the parking lot. That trail led to Limantour Beach.

We decided to walk down the beach and hoped it as just a few miles walk away.

Janet spotted jellyfish at the beach, which I thought was really cool. 

Since it was still gloomy and the sun wasn't out, the beach looked dark and kind of dirty. But as soon as the sun came out, the beach looked all blue again.

There was a point in which I went ahead and my friends decided to stay at a spot. I wanted to see if we could reach the Alamere waterfalls since we had been walking for quite a while. When I reached the spot, I wanted to check, it wasn't there. I asked some people about Alamere Falls and they told me it would take 2 hours to get there from the beach and that the hiking trail was faster. That was when I decided to head back.

 My friends discovered an awesome boulder while I went ahead of them.

When me and my friends were resting, I was digging in the sand for no reason and out came a larvae. My friend put the larvae back in the sand and a few minutes later I found the larvae again.

We headed back to the parking lot, but this time we headed up a trail since it would be faster.

When we reached this sign, I wanted to follow it and not assume that the parking lot was down the trail. I wanted to make sure we didn't waste time, but my friends wanted to go to the trail and continued walking. We asked 2 people who we just saw and they said they saw the parking lot 30 minutes ago. After walking for 10 minutes, I still had my doubts and saw 2 people again and I asked them if the trail was heading to the Limantour parking lot and they said the trail was going inland and they were heading to the parking lot too.

I think walking along the dry sand is very hard, especially if the same is on an unstable surface. So, it was very exhausting. The sand sinked in every time I walked on it. Even the sand on the beach sinked in, but it felt nicer to walk next to the water on wet sand. I didn't like the sand here too much. I did like that it didn't stick to me too much though.

I'm kind of bummed we didn't get to see Alamere Falls, but maybe another time!

Paesanos and Mini Golfing with Xeng

A few weeks ago, I talked to Xeng about going mini golfing and she wanted to go, but she never been mini golfing before. We were going to go with other high school friends, but they couldn't make it.

Before mini golfing, we went to Paesanos for dinner. I really dont remember what the name was of the dish I ordered, but I enjoyed it.

We headed to Scandia after dinner to mini golf. It was still sunny when we first got there, but eventually it start to get dark. Too bad there wasn't a good view of the sunset there.

Scandia is right off the freeway. It's kind of enjoyable watching the cars pass by. I used to think that I might hit the ball in the freeway, but not anymore.

I used to think that mini golfing was hard or complicated. Turns out, it was just things I heard about it. It can actually be pretty fun. Some people think you need a big group for mini golfing, but I think more than 4 people is way too much. I mean, consider this, if regular golfing usually have around 2 people golfing there like in movies, why should there be more people in mini golfing than regular golfing? Also, there would be too long of a wait.

It took me and my friend close to 2 hours to get through all the courses and it seemed like we went through it pretty fast. I think part of the reason why was because we had to wait for the groups in front of us to finish first.

The other day, I was at Golfland Sunsplash and noticed that it is much more prettier and well designed at Golfland. Golfland also has a bunch of rules posted involving limit of people, rules of the game, and what not to do.

My friend enjoyed her first time mini golfing and she was glad that it wasn't intimidating because she thought everyone would be paying attention to her. But, no one really pays attention when people mini golf because they are doing their own thing.

San Francisco with High School Friends

Last Saturday I went on a trip to San Francisco with a few high school friends. I dont see them often, so it was nice to get together and go somewhere that's a bit farther.

This drive to San Francisco was different for me. This time, I went through the Golden Gate Bridge. It wasn't really gold. It looked rusty and it didn't seem as long as I expected. There were a lot of cars and tourists on the bridge. I know it's not my first time seeing the Golden Gate Bridge since I saw it when I was younger, but I know that it was a fun field trip for me.

I decided to park around the Palace of Fine Arts since there is more street parking around the area. I actually found parking right away. As we walked towards Palace of Fine Arts, we noticed that Crissy Fields was right across the street and we were going to head there, but it was too cold and windy.

I only been to Palace of Fine Arts once before and that time there was barely any one there, but that day there was more people.

I think it was Palace of Fine Arts that was built for the World's Fair just like the Eiffel Tower.

Our next stop was Fishermen's Wharf and Pier 39. We took the bus to Fishermen's Wharf and walked down to Pier 39. This time around, I noticed that all the American usual dining spots or whatnot was on one side and more seafood places was on the other side.

We ended up eating at Boudini's. I got the clam chowder, but my friends didn't. I would have chosen a different place if I knew they didn't want clam chowder. My friends said that there bread was hard for their sandwiches. I loved my clam chowder though. It was delicious.

We took some photos and one with Alcatraz Island. But, some boats got in the way.

Next, we headed towards Japantown by bus. It took us longer since we had to walk for about 20 minutes after the bus.

 At Japantown, I noticed this Pikachu, which I hadn't noticed during the other times I was there. I think there was a Ramen festival a few days before we came, but there will be another Ramen festival coming up, so I'm debating on whether to attend to that or not.

It's been a while since I had crepes in Japantown and I forgot how delicious they can be. I love every single bite of my crepe. I got my crepe at Belly Good Cafe & Crepes. Some other people get their crepes from Sophie's.

After Japantown, we headed back to Sacramento and decided to have dinner at Pine Tree House. It was a nice dinner and a good time to catch up with friends. I can't wait for our next gathering.