"We went skydiving" you know the Tim McGraw song :)

Breakfast fit for Champions

Loosening up before the big jump!!

We have been so busy this weekend working, I completely forgot to blog about our amazing skydiving adventure!!!  It was sooooo incredible! But, I shall start from the beginning. I worked Thursday night (Hayley didn't sleep much either), so when I got off, we decided to first head to eat a breakfast for champions (since we were about to conquer the sky and all). We headed to Black Bear Diner where we both had a new york strip, breakfast potatoes, fresh fruit and a HUGE biscuit! Exactly what I was wanting! All that was missing was some cheese grits! Oh well, on to Skydiving.

Hayley and Rafeal

Me and R2

Me Free Falling

Hayley Free Falling

We plugged the address into the GPS, and of course, got lost heading there. I ended up calling the place and his first words were: "take the gps, roll down your window, and throw it out." Geez, what a comedian. We finally made it, only took about 45 minutes, and paid for our skydiving adventure. No turning back now. We met our tandem instructors (our lives were in their hands). Mine was R2, guess he's a star wars fan, and Hayley's was Rafeal, from Brazil. Actually he never told us his name, but it could have been Rafeal, right? Anyway, we met them, got suited up, and headed to wait for the plane. Oh yeah during the meet and greet part, we also signed our life away. So we piled into the plane, a true "crop duster" as Hayley would say, and headed up to 13,000 ft above sea level! It got cold up there! Of course R2 and I were the first to jump, so the two of us and my camera guy headed to the edge to look out. If I was afraid of heights, I might have passed out!  Then 1-2-3 JUMP! We were out and completely free falling to our doom. It was the most amazing feeling I have ever felt!  After about a minute, the parachute came out and we just floated to the ground.  I even to got steer a little!  The landing was even fun. Landed straight on my bum. I can't say for sure what Hayley thought, but since we both couldn't stop talking about it the whole way home, I'd say she loved it just as much as I did!
Can't wait for our next adventure to Yosemite!!!

Hayley and Elizabeth

The San Francisco Treat

A little background of beginning of the week:

Us and the Golden Gate
Bridge!!!!!!

Sorry, but gonna be a long one, San Fran was AWESOME!!!!  So all week long Hayley and I had been planning our San Francisco trip! Wednesday afternoon we booked our trip and were planning to leave around 11:30 am yesterday morning.  We were both off Monday, so we went shopping to find some sweaters, or just something new in general to wear, but no winter clothes were out yet. At H&M I found a jacket I really liked, but unfortunately I decided against giving it (bad idea). While in Macy's I accidentally bumped into one of the workers, said excuse me and went on my way. She then followed me a little to close and I bumped into her again, and she told me to let her finish doing her job and then I could try on scarfs and hats, and that she didn't care if we bought anything or not.  Excuse me? Yeah Hayley was soo upset (so wish i had a camera), and we told her boss that she needed to take some customer service classes. Any who, I ended up buying a scarf, we ate dinner at BJ's (very good) and then home. I worked Tuesday-Thursday, then off for San Fran on Friday.  Well Thursday night at work, I got an email saying our tour had been canceled!  WHAT??!!  We had no clue what we were going to do. Hayley was at home so she researched Alcatraz, but everything was booked. We decided we would just head to Fisherman's Warf and try to find a tour day of.

Friday Morning:

First Picture off the train

Okay so I get home around 7:45 (my first busy night at work, made the night go by fast though!) and Hayley was finally asleep ( we text till like 5) and I tried to sleep.  I looked at my phone around 9:30 and was still wide awake. About 10:40 I got up (maybe got about 45 min of sleep) got ready and we were off to San Fran! We stopped back at the mall so I could get the jacket I had been thinking about all week (yup, the one from H&M)! Yes, I know I'm a dork, but it was soooo cute!  Anyway, we plugged in the BART (Bay Area Rapid Transportation) station into Kieren, and headed on to San Fran!  Once we got to the Pleasanton BART we had to figure out where to catch the train.  After walking in circles about 10 min we figured it out. Then to buy our ticket we had to ask an attendant bc it kept making us get a $20 ticket (should have been $11). So we got that straight and headed to on. Once in the train, we encountered a few strange people.  One older man with his looked like he belonged with George Washington (you know the white hair and ponytail), then there was another dude with his bike (Monkey dude). Apparently he thought is was hot stuff, bc he didn't have a shirt on and started doing pull ups on the railing and hanging on by one hand while we were moving. We just thought he was dumb and totally wish we had gotten a picture. I mean who does that?? So once we finally made it into San Francisco, we had to figure out how to get to Fisherman's Warf!

Friday Afternoon:

Such a tense game!

I typed in Fisherman's Warf on my GPS and we started our 1.6 mile hike! (literally a hike up and down hills). We headed through Chinatown. In our opinion, this was just a big cluster! A million people, one Chinese restaurant after another and then in between those, store that were selling pure junk!  The only cool part was a park where people were gathered playing Chinese checkers.  People were crowded around 2 or 3 that were playing.  Everyone was concentrating very hard, and there were tons of spectators watching it all (like us).

Alamo Square and the Pretty Ladies

Finally we made it to Fisherman's Warf and found the same tour agency that had canceled our first tour (it still went so I guess it was just overbooked). We were able to get a 2 hour tour of San Fran that went to the Golden Gate Bridge, so we were happy! So glad we didn't have to wing it, bc we probably wouldn't have seen ANYTHING! Our tour guide Danny from Honduras was great!  He was very informative and funny!  We were able to see many of the famous landmarks: Lombard St,  Union Square, Alamo Square and the Pretty Ladies, Golden Gate Park, and of course the Golden Gate Bridge! Along the way from Pier 39 to the Golden Gate Bridge, I think temperature dropped about 20 degree and the wind gusts increased about 15 mph! We were glad to get back to Pier 39 (even though only 64 degrees it was sooo much warmer :)!! We went to a souvenir shop and picked up a few things, went and saw the sea lions on the Pier 39 planks and headed to dinner!

Friday Evening:

Our drinks and appetizer

We were told that the F Line cable cars would take us right to Pier 1 1/2 where the restaurant La Mar was. We waited about 30 minutes while talking to our moms (we love our mama's). A cable car came, but didn't pick anyone up. The looked like sardines packed in there (about like our car on the way from AZ to CA). We heard someone say the next one would be there for 20 min so we decided just to walk. It was only 0.6 miles. OMG, I think my feet died few times by the time we finally made it to La Mar. Although our feet were killing us, we did walk through some pretty neighborhoods and along the bay.  We saw the double decker bay bridge up close and it was so cool to see cars driving on it!  We made it to La Mar and I new I wanted to try a Pisco Sour.  All my Peruvian friends have told me its so good so I just had to see for myself!  They were right :) Hayley got a Pisco Punch, and it was very good too! Our appetizer was homemade potato chips, sweet potato chips, and some other kind of potato with 3 different sauces. Very good!  For dinner I had a sampler of empanadas (chicken, steak, corn, and mushrooms). Hayley had skirt steak skewers,  some kind of potato and some corn. Both entrees were delish! A couple next to us informed us on how to get back the BART station. As we were leaving the restaurant, we passed a roller blade gang! Not kidding, they had two people with speakers in a baby stroller and they were jammin' out as they skated along the sidewalk!  I have NEVER seen anything like it!  One of them even told us to try it one Friday night as she passed by. The things you'll see in San Francisco, hahaha. Anyway, we made it back to the station, rode the train back to Pleasanton, found the car and finally made it back home! We both crashed and didn't wake up until this afternoon! We had soo much fun!  I can't wait til' our next adventure!

Cheers to an AWESOME day!

~Hayley and Elizabeth~

Well this week has been full of work. I actually worked Mon-Fri 12 hour shifts, and Hayley has worked Mon-tonight, with only Fri off, also 12 hour shifts. Monday was a full day of hospital orientation.  We arrived at 730am to the hospital lobby and left about 615pm. The whole day was nothing but a unorganized blunder.  The first half of the day we filled out paperwork (that we had already previously finished) and had a respiratory fit test (TB mask). I think we did about 15 min of actual work. Then we had a computer class in which none of the computers actually worked. We had several people come and speak to us (boring!), and then ended the day getting our computer and pyxis (medication distribution system) passwords. We actually left orientation more confused than when we arrived. It was like there was absolutely no communication between the teachers.  Great way to run a hospital, right?! Anyway, the next two days, Hayley and I both had floor orientation. The floors were run about the same as other hospitals as far as assessments, and medication distribution times, but the computer system was ancient. It reminds me of the DOS computers we had in elementary school with the green typing, playing organ trail. Totally not user friendly, but I think we are finally getting the hang of it.  Friday, I was floated to Hayley's floor, but unfortunately she was not working that night :( So, as y'all can see, it has been a pretty boring week of working. Tonight I have been looking up fun stuff to do around Modesto/San Fran. I also decided to try something new, and dye my hair brown. It came out kinda dark, but maybe it will fade! I also watched True Grit earlier, which was a pretty good movie, but make sure you have the volume turned up when you watch it because they talk "western." A little bit hard to understand. Tomorrow is 1 of 2 of our only days off together until Aug 24, so we are going to do what we do best, SHOP! Well hope this week is awesome for everyone! Till, next time,

Hayley and Elizabeth