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My Plans for the Week a recap
When planning for this trip, I decided that I was going to go to all the places that appealed to me. Afterall, I didnt have to worry about entertaining anyone else and if you recall the below from my PTR:
There are 4 full days here for me to do as I please. Im not sure what Ill be doing on which day but my plans are as follows:
1. Visit the Walt Disney Family Museum and DisMeet with usnuzuloose, ACDSNY and mvf-m11c. I think weve locked in a day for this one.
2. A day in downtown SF reacquainting myself with my favourite places and shops. I do like wandering down Union Street (not the square) and also spending time in that tourist trap of Fishermans Wharf. If I feel like it, I might jump on a ferry and head across to Sausalito. If not, Ill spend time looking at shops in the downtown area.
3. Head to Half Moon Bay and drive along PCH1. I think Ill go seek out a lighthouse or two and the elephant seals this time. And if I hit the right time schedule, I might go to Felton and take a steam train ride through the redwoods.
4. Shopping. This might be spread out over the 5 days. The places I want to go to include Stamford Mall, Hillsdale Mall, Keeble and Shuchat Photography in Palo Alto, Santana Row, Town and Country Village, Milpitas Warehouse Outlets. I probably wont get to every single one of these shopping places but Im going to try. I need to buy jeans, shoes, business suits and blouses.
5. Pending time, Id like to visit a few nature reserves and/or gardens around Silicon Valley. I keep trying to visit the Filoli Gardens
but Ive never quite made it there. And sadly for me, as Ill be there in November, I dont think the Filoli will be opened at this time of year. Itll have to be another trip.
Last night at Yoshis, our cousins asked what my plans were for the week and I pretty much regaled a list almost identical to the one above.
I think we can all acknowledge that Ive already covered off bits of 3 and 4 by this stage; but not all of it.
The two cousins convinced me that a drive down PCH1 was the thing to do today; given that the weather was going to be beautiful; with temperatures expected in the low 90s. They werent sure about how the weather was going to be for the rest of the week and living in a city like Melbourne where we can get 4 seasons in a 10 minute period, I knew when to make hay whilst the sun shone.
I decided that a trip towards Santa Cruz was in order. I thought it would be great for me to go seek out a lighthouse or two and animal life on this day.
And I would steadily work on this list for the rest of the week.
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