San Fransisco Trip

While we were in Sacramento this Christmas we took the opportunity to go to San Fransisco. We woke up really early in the morning and drove to Pittsburg CA, yeah I never new of this place till we were driving and Benj finally told me about it. Then from Pittsburg we got on the BART, which stands for Bay Area Rail Transit. it was my first time riding something like in a while ( the last time I road anything near to that was when our family went to Europe my junior year and we road a subway.) 

When we got there we walked everywhere, but our first stop was China Town. It was awesome and there were so many stores to look around in, we even got hungry enough ans stopped at a small bakery and shared some yummy pastries. There were a lot of new things I have tried since marrying Benj, When you marry out side of your own culture (Benj being from Taiwan and all) you get new experiences you wouldnt have tried any where else. Some good some bad but... mostly good. 

 Sorry you will have to turn your head side ways for a couple of pictures, I'm still new at learning about blogging. We also stopped at the Grace Cathedral Hall, but didn't seem to get very good pictures of it. It was beautiful but the moment I walked in I new it couldn't be a church I ever attended, there just wasn't the same spirit there as we have in the LDS church. After walking around there we then walked to the Warf. I loved it there. By the time we walked around and looked at stuff we were starving so we stopped at some nice restaurant  and ate some calamari and nice big bowl of Clam Chowder. 

This was right before we went to dinner. The sun was setting and  it wasn't too cold out there. So beautiful!

Our trip was amazing and next time we are in California we plan to go again, there just wasn't enough time to do all the thing we wanted to do!

Christmas in Sacramento

I know this is a month late, but we forgot our camera in Sacramento ( where Ben's family is from). Anyways we spent this Christmas with Benj's family. It was really different for me because I'm used to having the snow, and well lets face it, it was my first Christmas away from home. We spent about two weeks there, and did many things. Christmas day we went to the Zoo with his family, and it was really fun. I love the zoo but I haven't been to a lot of them because lets face it Idaho doesn't have a lot of zoo's and the zoo's they have don't have a lot of animals in them.

I thought I would share a couple of pictures of the Zoo. Here is Benj with a Heina. See we don't have these in Idaho Zoo's.

I just had to share this photo because Giraffes are my favorite animal and they were so cute when we were at the zoo!

The zoo wasn't the only thing we did while we were there. Benj's family is all about food, so when the holiday come around that's all they really do. We ate so many good Asian food while we were there I even got to experience Benj favorite food called zhongzi. Its this steamed rice that has meat in side of the rice and then its wrapped in banana leaves. it looks something like this.

And then when it's open it looks like this.

Its actually really good, but you really have to be open to new ideas, and new tastes, because this is kinda of an acquired taste. 

For Christmas eve we had huo guo  which means hot pot. Basically what you do is get a portable stove top to put a pot on and then you throw a bunch or meats and veggies in there to cook, then you pull them out and eat what you want. There's also this Asian sauce its like a bbq sauce they make with peanut butter sauce almost.

Sorry its side ways for some reason I couldn't get it to turn.

We also went to San Fransisco but I think I'll save that for another post.