San Francisco - city of 2013

Yes, it is true. I was so fortunate that i got to go to the city that has been ranked as #1 2013! 

http://urbanland.uli.org/Articles/2012/Oct/RazziET2013

This was the two crazy people I went with, Lise and Laurids ;)

Lise had invited Laurids and I to come along with her, as she wanted to visit some of her friends in SF. We stayed with some friends of her family in Sacramento and they were just awesome. Already from the moment the lady Marta picked us up in the airport waving with a Danish flag it appeared to be a very promising weekend.

She has been living in Denmark and also worked for Novo-nordisk for many years so her Danish was quite well. However, she preferred speaking English, which was good, as we better keep on practicing our English. Both her and her husband appeared to be very open-minded, friendly people that knows a lot about everything! I feel that we learned so much from just being with them – got to discuss so many different topics and gained a lot of knowledge about what it is like being American.

 And Laurids opened up for San Francisco! :)

 This is called the "coit-tower" has been the emblem of San Francisco's skyline since its completion in 1933. After one of the cities firefighters died she donated money for ornamentation of her city. The tower was therefore named after her. 

A Catholic church from the Italian city part. 

The alcatraz cruise that they didn't allow us to get on...

Well, Saturday Marta took us to SF, which is located like 1,5 our away from Sacramento. Lise was supposed to meet one of her friends so Laurids and I would have to explore the city on our own. We had both been there before but as I had never visited Alcatraz (an island on which a prison is located) we had decided to do that. In fact we had both excited each other about going so much that we could only be completely disappointed when we reached the pier and realised that the tickets were sold out untill tuesday… L
So Laurids spent some time travelling there with me mentally. I felt so bad for myself so now I have decieded that I have been there anyway…! J


As an alternative we spent the day walking around ”sensing” the city. We went to a hippie district, which was quite cool.

Sunday Marta took us all the way to Lake Tahoe, which is one of America’s many National Parks. It is half way located in California and the rest is in Nevada, which signified we got to visit two states!

J And in fact we went to a casino in Nevada, as it is one of the only states, in which casinos are permitted. As you see the nature around Lake Tahoe is just amazing and it is supposed to be a great skiing area. Unfortunately the lifts do not open before this weekend and therefore we were not able to ski… It was strange however, cause we went from California, Sacramento, in which there was around 16 degrees Celsius to Lake Tahoe, which was covered in snow – and it was only a 2 hour drive away! J
Monday we were back in San Francisco.
Here Laurids and I went to a Science academy and was actually quite surprised when we had to conclude that the rainforest in Randers was better than this one!




Besides that I guess I should mention that Obama has just been reelected, which has brought great joy to our group! I was however, chocked to see how little some Americans cared about the election. On the election day some from my class watched it together and were sort of into it… Meanwhile we were watching the family we were at were watching series on their laptop and did not participate.

Another thing is that the Americans also voted for some initiatives. Here in Washington state Marijuana has actually been legalised along with gay-marriage. That signifies that from December this year marijuana can be bought at stores… Wonder how that will affect the program next year… no, just kidding ;)