The San Francisco Treat! Part 1

Alright, Im trying to catch up... We got to San Francisco about 4 and half weeks ago and you are now just hearing about my adventures in this city. I've been here once and it was a few summers ago when Tyson and I hitched a ride up to Lake Shasta with Amber and Jeremy and Bella and Olivia.

Our hotel was like a two minute walk from the theater. Its great because we were able to walk to the theater everyday and were able to pop in to our hotel between acts if we needed to get something. The immense number of aggressive homeless people around us was not a bonus and neither was having a room without a kitchenette for 4 weeks. Lets just say San Francisco stole my money in the way of paying for meals!!!


Our first night we went to Ghiradelli Square and had Ice Cream with Ashleys friend and my former co-worker Megan and her boyfriend John. We were felling lucky but our table numbers were trying to tell us otherwise.





Our hotel was the King George and while it was very close to the theater it was very small and cramped for 4 weeks. Here are some pictures of the room. Our first weekend Amber and Jessica drove up and we had them crash in our room and the brought their cots and set them up in the empty space of our hotel room. Where you ask? Exactly there was hardly any room so we had to do some serious re-arranging and moving of furniture to get it done. Our room was butt up to an alley which was frequented by the homeless and other random people through out the day and into the night. After two weeks of people yelling, singing cursing at all hours of the night, Ashley and I marched up to the front desk with dark circles under our eyes and politely asked to be moved to a higher floor on the opposite side of the hotel. They gladly obliged and the rest of those 2 weeks, we slept like babies.





Our second day in San Francisco we headed up the street with our dirty clothes in our suitcases in search for the laundry mat that the front desk guy told us about at our hotel. Well we didnt find it so we kept walking until we found one and unknowingly ended up in The Tenderloin, which we found out later. it looked sketchy but we really needed to do our laundry so we got started. After a while I walked down to the corner store to get a bottle of water. When i left there were two guys out side looking all shady and weird but I just averted my eyes and walked directly back to the laundry mat. After about ten minutes we got up from the bench to check on our clothes and left our purses on the bench about 10 feet away. Mine wern't done so I shut the door and looked up to see the same two guys from outside the corner store now standing in the door way. CRAP! My purse is closer to them, than it is to me. I made a beeline over there and sat down with Ashleys purse and mine behind me. They started to try to talk to us and asked us if we had boyfriends and could they get our numbers and what not but we were cornered by them and definately felt intimitadted. After a minute or two of us not feeding into thier advances they got the piscture and left. We learned our lesson... A) Never start walking around in a strange neighborhood withour truly knowing where your going and B) carry your purse on you at all times even if its just 10 feet away.

Here are some pictures of the awesome laundry mat and the high tech way of informing people that one of the machines was broken.























Then here are some random pictures from around.

















Alright there are way too many pictures and stories for one blog. Ill have to have more than one San Fran post to make sure I can show them all to you!

The New Computer/Denver

Well I have a new computer! I've never personally owned my own computer so this is weird territory. Im reading manuals, googling stuff and I still have no clue what Im doing. Macs were Tysons thing, computers were Tysons thing. I would just ask him and he would do it. He would just know what to look for or what to do and just do it. I have Apple care which means I can march down to the apple store, make an appointment and they will show me what to do. Will they be as understanding as Tyson? Will they be patient? Will they just do it when I get to frustrated because i still dont understand? Probably not... but I have to figure it out. So maybe I should use the service and make the appointment.

Ok so I do have my pictures on my computer so I guess I will slowly share some that I have taken so far. Most are from my little point and click since its the most convenient to carry in my purse.

We left L.A. for Denver on January 3rd. We left the Southern California warm, sunny, laid back life style for cold and snowy Denver. To be honest with you I wasn't that thrilled to go out a do much sight seeing. I was pretty bummed out about saying goodbye to everyone and still trying to tie up loose ends back at home that Denver was kind of the city that fell through the cracks.


Sam Number 3 - A janitor recomended this place to us day one and we loved it. We went back 2 or 3 times. Breakfast was amazing.





This is our friend Forest, we decided to brave the snow beween shows to get Frozen Custurd from Good Times. When we got there, it was closed :(














The next 5 pictures are from the Molly Brown House. She was also known as the Unsinklable Molly Brown from the Titanic. We showed up and were going to buy our tickets and found out that it was one of 4 free days during the year. Score! Free Tour! I was aloud to take pictures inside but I took a few in the front and some of Ashley and I trying on Victorian Hats in the "play room". I always knew I like Molly Browns charachter from the movie... such a spit fire... but loved her even more after touring the house. Little known fact, after The Titanic sank everyone was taken aboard The Carpathia(sp?) to finish their voyage. As soon as she got on the ship she started fundraising for all the women and children who were left widowed and fatherless as a result of the disaster. She stayed on the ship until every last person had a place to go. Wow, what an amazing woman! Truly made my heart warm when I heard that story.



















The last few pictures are of Ashley and I around the city and at the theater.























Last but not least, the smelly, the dingy, "La Cage'" - our office/storage in Denver. It was located at the back of the theater where all the light storage was.




Goodbye Denver, I doubt I will miss you!

Denver Day 1

Well day 1! I left this morning to head down to LAX to head for Denver. It's was very hard to say goodbye. I never had any doubts about the job or my decision, I just didn't want to leave everyone. The kids are going to grow and people will continue with thier lives. Just because I leave doesn't mean life for others stops... as much as I would like it to.

I had breakfast with my parents, a nice way to start the day. Then they drove me to flyaway. We met up with Ashley, her mom and our friend Stephanie. We took some pictures then had our teary goodbye and got on to the bus. When we got off at Terminal 1 for Southwest my jaw almost hit the floor. The longest lines I had ever seen were coming out of he terminal and down the sidewalk. Apparently Southwest had an amazing deal for people flying home after the holiday weekend. We ended up being able to skip 85% of the line because we were checked in online and had our boarding passes already printed out. Thank goodness! However when I went to weigh my bag, I knew I would be over the 50lb max but had no idea it would be by 18lbs. I feel like a diva, I didn't think I packed THAT much but the numbers don't lie.

Going through security I walked through the metal detector and Ashley had the new fancy scanner. It was bound to happen sooner than later, it just happened to be at the first airport for Ashley.

We got on to the 2 1/2 hour flight and landed in Denver. We have slowly met a few of the actors and musicians for the show as well. Everyone was super nice and friendly. We just got to the hotel and are resting before we go find somewhere to eat. You know Ashley and I, food makes our world go round. We always welcome suggestions for things to do or places to eat in each city.

It may take me a few days to get settled in and organized but I will begin my photo taking and try to share some of Denver with you. have a good night all.