a day trip to the bay and the nostalgia that it brought

i heart sf.

on monday i went to san fransisco with carole and justina. i was so excited to go becasue i have never been before, except that one time i went camping underneath the golden gate bridge for youth conference. we hit up all the touristy spots such as chinatown where i tried a chinese doughnut which was disgusting! we went to pier 39 and watched the seals and foreigners, walked around fishermens warf as well as the rest of the city. we walked up and down the crookest street in the word, lombrad not wall st people...sorry bad joke. but by far my favorite thing that we did was go to little italy.
as soon as we enter neighborhood a man came out of his shop and yelled at the man in the next shop over in italian. voglio parlare con te! my heart accelerated with happiness. oh hearing a real italian speak italian, mama mia, che magnifico! further down the street there was a man smoking outside a restaurant and i asked him if he was italian and he was so we began to have a conversation in italian! it felt so good to speak the language again. oh how i have missed it. we talked about where he was from, me going to siena and why he came to the states. needless to say my friends were impressed with my schveet skills. i still fumbled like i always do, but i love the italian language sooo much. its part of who i am now. we continued to run into italians throughout the day wether they were working or on vacation. i even followed some around at pier 39. yes i know im a creeper, but i just loooved hearing them speak. che comodo! guarda! towards the end of the day we went to this gelato shop in little italy called naia. i was expecting overpriced disappointing gelato but i was pleasently surprised. naia had decent prices and good gelato even better than that one place in lucca where we ate horrible gealto that one time. i talked with the girl behind the counter as i tried many of their flavors ranging from corn to toasted coconut and she told me that they make their own milk base right in the store and just as the italians do they make their flavors using the actually fruits, nuts, ect.

i will definitely be making a return trip.

a window sticker

that caught my attention enough for me to pull out my camera from my purse that was on the floor of the passenger seat and proceed to take a picture while driving. i risked my life because i had to share this with you.


*twilight mom

this disgusts me. thank you mrs. myers

a trip to stanford

which i just realized was stanford becasue i have been pronouncing it standford for like my whole life. thats a lot embarrassing and im not sure why just shared that with you. anyways thats not the point of this post, the point of this post is Alexi, my bff, my homegirl, my fb stalking buddy. i went to stanford to visit her. since i have met her (freshmen year at BYU) i have visited her every break becasue she conveniently only lives about an hour and a half away from me.

she is seriously awesome and the greatest example of being more christ like and always striving to become better. she is just so in tune, if you know what i mean. i love being around her not only becasue she is ridiculous amounts of fun but becasue around her you cant help but feel happy and want to be a better you. as i was saying before she is buckets full of fun. its absolutely the best talking and laughing with her. im so grateful for her friendship. i know we are going to be besties for a very long time, probably like forever.