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San Francisco to San Jose
Jan. 22nd, 2009 02:59 pmYesterday we decided to get breakfast, check out and have the hotel hold our luggage while we took a trip up to Coit Tower. Sadly the beautiful weather we had been having changed for the worse in the form of the first clouds I had seen all holiday as well as rain. I blame the UK furries coming over that day as they took the weather with them :P
Anyway, the journey to Coit was relatively short, but it was a long way up. Lots of very steep streets up to the tower which also had some more painful stairs to ascend. Fortunately there is a lift for the main height of the tower. Once up, despite the less than perfect weather, I still got some great snaps of the views that Coit tower provides.
Once we decided we had had our fill of the sights, we made our way back to the hotel to grab our luggage and a cab to the Caltrain. The train as OK, it was double decked but not as good as the trains I had travelled on in Germany and Holland but at leats the announcements were in English so I could understand them :). Normally I'm OK with train travel but this time I felt a bit travel sick with nausea, I guess my cold was partly to blame for that.
After the train journey, it was a short free bus ride to the Doubletree hotel for FC09 (which Frysco insisted hadn't started yet despite the abundance of furries and fursuiters). Ended up grabbing lunch with the usual British suspects as well as Smash and Frysco at the restaurant formerly known as Cluck U. I chickened out of the hot wings and opted for a rather tasty BBQ chicken burger.
Back at the hotel, I socialised at the bar, drinking my first alcoholic drinks from the bar (after seeing the prices, I'm not surprised I hadn't drunk there before). As they had the ingredients, I had a 'Niagra' or 'Green' being vodka, blue curaco and red bull :)
Ended up the day getting jealous of everyone microblogging the event to twitter so I got myself signed up. I'm SlyCatUK on there. Not much to write about so far but may well use it as the con progresses.
Today, there's vague plans to go to Dennys followed by a trip to the Computer History Museum while registration takes place. I'll mostly work out what I'm doing as I go tho so I can keep my options open :)
See you around if you're here!
Anyway, the journey to Coit was relatively short, but it was a long way up. Lots of very steep streets up to the tower which also had some more painful stairs to ascend. Fortunately there is a lift for the main height of the tower. Once up, despite the less than perfect weather, I still got some great snaps of the views that Coit tower provides.
Once we decided we had had our fill of the sights, we made our way back to the hotel to grab our luggage and a cab to the Caltrain. The train as OK, it was double decked but not as good as the trains I had travelled on in Germany and Holland but at leats the announcements were in English so I could understand them :). Normally I'm OK with train travel but this time I felt a bit travel sick with nausea, I guess my cold was partly to blame for that.
After the train journey, it was a short free bus ride to the Doubletree hotel for FC09 (which Frysco insisted hadn't started yet despite the abundance of furries and fursuiters). Ended up grabbing lunch with the usual British suspects as well as Smash and Frysco at the restaurant formerly known as Cluck U. I chickened out of the hot wings and opted for a rather tasty BBQ chicken burger.
Back at the hotel, I socialised at the bar, drinking my first alcoholic drinks from the bar (after seeing the prices, I'm not surprised I hadn't drunk there before). As they had the ingredients, I had a 'Niagra' or 'Green' being vodka, blue curaco and red bull :)
Ended up the day getting jealous of everyone microblogging the event to twitter so I got myself signed up. I'm SlyCatUK on there. Not much to write about so far but may well use it as the con progresses.
Today, there's vague plans to go to Dennys followed by a trip to the Computer History Museum while registration takes place. I'll mostly work out what I'm doing as I go tho so I can keep my options open :)
See you around if you're here!
