24/08/12 - Day 1 in San Francisco
Hey guys! I'm back in Australia now from the J-pop Summit Festival in San Francisco! It was a great experience and I'm glad I was able to take part in it.I've been soooo busy since I got back to Australia. I'm actually meant to be doing an assignment now due on Monday lol, but I just felt like I haven't blogged for a long time so I thought I'd take the time now before I start study. Next week might be a bit busy for me too *sigh*. It's my birthday next week and I'm not really looking forward to it haha, damn I'm turning 22, feel like my age is getting to me haha.
Anyway, I think I'm going to try blog a lot about my trip to San Francisco to get them all out of the way so I can continue blogging about Japan haha. There aren't too many posts, but I have a lot of photos of the Liz Lisa cosmetic range also, so I will make a post of that later. I also vlogged and did a tour of the Liz Lisa pop-up store before it opened, so I will try edit that asap!
So before my trip, I didn't sleep at all the night before because I had to go to the airport around 4am to fly to Sydney. I arrived in Sydney in the morning and had about 3 hours in the airport before my flight to San Francisco. Decided to walk around and have lunch. Why is food SO expensive in Sydney Airport?!?
I spent $30 on this ramen <_<
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I thought the food prices where I live was bad, but Sydney is so much more expensive T_T
Boarded my flight to San Francisco!
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About 3-4 hours before touch down
Landed in San Francisco~ Took the train to go meet up with the Liz Lisa staff. I was so tired because I only slept around 2 hours on the flight (flight was around 14 hours). I had a window seat but it was one of the ones that had a huge gap between the window and the seat so I couldn't sleep T_T On flights I always like the window seat so I can lean on it and sleep T_T
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We went to check into our hotel, then went for a walk to JapanTown in San Francisco.
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I like how the streets look really historical!
Stood at the front of the City Hall being all touristy haha.
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We had this exact same moving flower at the front of our university a few months ago.
We then kept walking to JapanTown to set up the Liz Lisa Pop-up store for the weekend.
I thought that the JapanTown is quite amazing! They have a Daiso (100 yen store) and also Japanese restaurants/supermarkets! Wish we had this where I live!
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Finally arrived at the New People store to set up the Liz Lisa Pop-up Shop!
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It's such a nice place inside!
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Had a Matcha latte because I was still so tired T_T
Boxes of Liz Lisa stock!
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Went to Daiso quickly to buy stuff
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After we finished setting up, we decided to go to dinner. We went to Fisherman's Wharf which is apparently a famous place in San Francisco.
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Me with Aino-san and Hiroko-san!
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We chose to go to a small cozy restaurant. I forgot the name though T_T If anyone recognizes this place please let me know!
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It was actually Aino-san's birthday!
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I'm not a fan of seafood but this place was really good!
That's all for today, I'll try blog a lot more when I have more time. Planning to go to Japan early next year again so I need to try get through all these Japan posts and vlogs fast!
10 comments
Write commentsSan Francisco looks amazing, wish Melbourne had a Japantown. can't wait for your other posts :)
ReplyI hope to go some day! Liz Lisa should come again!
ReplyOmg I missed your vlogs so bad, i check every single day. Loved this entry. Can't wait for the next!
Replythe food looks so yummy !!!!
Replyhawaii also has a lot of japanese stuff, well, oahu, that is... i'm glad you liked the food. i had some seafood this weekend... we went to a city named Baltimore for my 21st birthday. i totally feel ya about getting old, which is weird b/c everyone else gets so excited, especially about their 21st bday. oh, and 30 dollars for ramen...that's crazy :p looking forward to future posts.
ReplyPS, 'd love to try a matcha latte myself, not sure where i might get one.
It was amazing! I'm going to try blog more now ^_^
ReplyHopefully they do!
ReplyAww thank-you for your support! I will be writing up another one now!
ReplyIt was really good ^_^
ReplyAhh I heard a lot of japanese people go to Hawaii. Aww happy 21st birthday!
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