Violent Pillow

• Summing up the trip: Santa Cruz Boardwalk, Roller Coaster, Beaches, Driving, Music, Mountain View, Irish Pubs, Tapas, Beer, Facebook, Traffic, Fisherman’s Wharf, Pier, Walking, Parking Tickets, Marina District, Shady Hotels, Bar Hopping, Drinks at the Drake Hotel, Starlight Lounge, Wicked, Golden Gate, Saulselito, Brunch, In N’ Out, Waxing, Cabs, CPR, “You’re So Beauthifool”.
• Great Moment: Getting a cab in Palo Alto is apparently quite difficult. This didn’t stop me from NOT waiting in the taxi line and hailing a minivan cab before anyone else. A girl came up to be and told me that there was a group of like 20 of them and they should get priority and that I should give her the cab. I gave her my “thats really sad but I don’t give a shit face” and shoved the girls in the cab. As I closed the door, she looked at me with a “are you for realz” face and exclaimed “OMG is this really happening right now???”. Yes bitch, it is.
• If you put Niamh, Andrea and Katherine together prepare to laugh forever. The hilarious energy these three put out had my abs hurting by the end of the trip.
• The bars in Mountain View, Palo Alto and San Francisco were all very very fun. Alcohol helps.
• Best quote of the trip: “I smell gum and it’s not in my mouth” – Katherine pretty much forcing Andrea to give her some gum.
• I thought it was pretty crazy how areas like Mountain View and Santa Cruz, just outside San Francisco, had weather that was much hotter than San Fran which is only 20 minutes away.
• California is expensive.
• Not only is California expensive, but San Fran takes it to a whole other level. From rent to food, I wonder how people can actually afford to live and eat at the same time.
• San Francisco is filled with unprecedented levels, for me, of douchebags.
• I still would like to try living in San Francisco, if only for one year.
• Beaches in Northern California are A LOT different than beaches in Southern California (for me better, because you can only see so much plastic surgery on a body).
• Song of the trip:
• Many other things happened that I can’t think about now but overall, I had a really really great time. Thanks again to Niamh for being a good host. We definitely need to try and make the trip to California an annual occasion. But now for what you are really waiting for, pictures (after the jump).

The only way to be happy before a flight on Southwest.

Gabriel: Wow, I’m actually starting to feel it.
Katherine: Sooch a vathinaa….

The faces of breakfast.

The weather was fantastic. So fantastic that it was part 1 of my arms turning red. Also, so fantastic that every Google employee came and tried to take over, but they are sooo nerdy that I was able to fight them off easily.

Rollercoaster make my heart flutter with happiness, not matter how much they break your back.

Andrea: So many colors. Its like a skittles bag threw up.

The girls thought it would be a good idea to walk on the sand instead of the boardwalk…….

but if you click on the pick and zoom in on Katherine’s face, you could tell that the sand burned like Satan’s touch.

If you ever need a heart attack…….

Niamh pretending to be a Hollywood agent. Andrea pretending to be interested in what I am saying.

Bird poop falling from within an enclosed umbrella table is ridiculous. Birds should be allowed to get shot.

I could see why so many people are just constant beach goers and have no real job or responsibility other than being a beach bum.

Weirdly enough, Kanye West came out of nowhere and punched her in the face for copyright issues.

If my smile looks fake….that’s because it is.

All these peace signs you are seeing from Katherine is her inner preparation for her upcoming trip to Asia.

Oh tapas, why must you be so delicious and make me fat?

One of the few pictures of that night of them together that I was “allowed” to post up without fear of getting killed.

Proving Mexicans are hot.

Enjoying the first Irish Pub, before the three way catfight began.

Stout. Its good.

Let me enjoy my beer you freak!

My new girlfriend. Please ignore creepy old guy staring at camera.

Wow, don’t they look so happy and sober?

Well they weren’t.

It’s fascinating how fast girls can be in heels when they are not sober. They soon were arrested trying to break into the facebook headquarters.