One long-ass plane ride, a nasty plane "salad", a mom ambush, fighting with the trunk, a dog ambush, and a 2 AM macaroni dinner later, and Monica is back on the east coast!

I took lots of pictures all trip which I'll be posting on photobucket later when I can use the memory card reader on my mom's computer, so you can all share in the Fabulous Gay California Adventure!!!!!

I spent the week with my great uncle Stu, his ex-boyfriend-turned-roommate Jaime, and his 3 cats, Chewy, Wolfgang (Wolfy), and Felix. My cousin Loren (boy) stopped by for a lot of the day trips too

Highlights of the trip included:

San Fran Pride '09

The Monterrey Bay Aquarium

The Castro

A tour of Stanford (holy shiz, I'm in love )

Fisherman's Wharf, including Pier 39, Bubba Gump Shrimp Co, and a harbor cruise

The weather (in the 60s and no humidity, absolutely wonderful!)

My cousin's 4th of July party

The party gets special mention cause it was off the hook. Loren bought 48 oysters, and we had to scrub every single one of them clean, in between lighting the 3 grills for BBQing and his roommate Angus taking me on a Ramune run in Chinatown.

Once that finished, people started showing up and getting beyond shit-faced drunk. Me and Angus and a couple other guys ran the grills, and holy shiz was there food! Oysters, steak, chicken, squash, tofu, corn, shrimp, zucchini, peppers, and that's just the stuff getting grilled.

After everyone was too drunk to walk straight, we all went outside to shoot off fireworks, which was when they boys started shooting them at people and jumping through the ground shooter thingies. Meanwhile, one of the other girls (Julie) decided that we were going clubbing (i'm 15) so she could introduce me to "hella girls" After that idea was shot down by Loren, she brought her dog Ocho over instead, and we played Taboo till god-knows-when in the morning, which was followed by mass passing out.

The next day Loren took me on a tour of Berkley, and then we sped to the airport and made it to the gate 5 minutes before they called for boarding.

I'm going back to sleep now. Jet lag's a bitch.

Edit: Here's the photos: [link]

Also, stuff I didn't get pics of: Bay dolphins, the pride parade, and some guy going under the Golden Gate Bridge in a rowboat.

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