First Day of Vacation!

(picture: chicken katsu plate lunch from "Hawaiian BBQ Drive-in")
alright, so i'm having a little bit of trouble uploading all of my images onto this blog (there's quite a bit) so i'll split them up by days. if i can remember what i did. :-P

first of all, maybe i should introduce the people that i traveled with. On my first flight i flew with Tam (who's house i stayed at), Loc, and Albert. Albert is from San Francisco (he departed after landing in SJ). So when we arrived at the airport, Tam's brother, Son, and her friends, Potter (his real name is Viet, but he looks like Harry Potter so everyone just calls him Potter) and his sister Vi came to pick us up. we visited Tam's sister's house, and her niece and spent a bit of time there. then we went to go eat some Hawaiian BBQ! i have been craving chicken katsu since i left the islands, so i was really happy to get some in California. it actually tasted pretty good too! :-D
so after lunch i was supposed to meet sylvia for a bbq at her friends house, but it was pretty late and i couldn't make it there...however, after she finished with her bbq, sylvia, jackie and her husband came to pick me up from tam's house :-). i spent the night at her house in San Francisco and the next day there too..but i'll get into that later.
that night sylvia took me to eat Thai food at this restaurant "King of Thai." i had their beef noodles, that tasted like chow fun, but even better. it was awesome! :-D so we went back to sylvia's house, but we caught the cable car. the cable car stops maybe about a block from Syl's house, so it's really convenient. she doesn't have a car, but since she lives in chinatown, everything is so easy to get around to, either by bus, cable car, train, or foot. it seems like a nice way to live.