Ok so onto what i did the past two days.
So on Monday i had this faboo plan to go to golden gate park, do the conservatory, the aquarium and natural history museum, and maybe the deyoung. I took an epic bus ride on the 33 line from dolores park to golden gate park. As per usual things did not go according to plan.
so first i went on a walk through some gardens and here was a flower. I wish i could say i know anything about flowers, but i don't, so i have no idea what kind of flower this is. But i liked the color.Then i walked a bit more, miles i'm sure, and finally found what i had come for, the conservatory. My mom has this old picture from the 60's when they had all just come from mexico and my grandma took all of them to sf and they took pictures in front of the conservatory.
I really wanted to recreate this picture but alas, there was no one there to take the pic for me so i had to settle for a self taken shot. the other ones i took smiling looked v. wierd so i opted for a my space pose and i think it worked out nicely. 
You might be saying "what is going on with her hair??" Good question. i do not know. I forgot my blowdryer in LA, nuff said. Disappointment #1, the conservatory was closed. bitches! David and i had bought a 25 cent map the day before at a gift store which did not inform me that the conservatory was closed on mondays. grreeeeat.So then i headed through some path trying to find the lily pad pond, which somehow elluded me but i turned a bend and saw this.
the deyoung!!! They were having a Chicano art exhibition which seemed v. approp so i was pretty stoked, until i walked to the front doors and found them locked. closed on mondays! fuckers! I did however manage to find a lily pad pond. According to my ghetto useless map it was not THE lily pad pond but it was something.
Note the abandoned sprite bottle. nature, le sigh...So then i thought, maybe just maybe by some stroke of luck the aquarium/natural history museum would be open. They were supposedly open 7 days a week. I had this imagine in my head of giant mastadon bones, and being very "from the mixed up files of mrs. basil e. frankwieler." i was tre excited. i turned around to see this.
Apparently this museum had not been built yet! What the hell! For the time being they were holding all the museum stuff in a building all the way across town. At that point i gave up, realizing that my day had been wasted and i headed for david's apartment for some tv and nappying. so much for nature. On my way home though i did overhear this really bizarre homeless looking man telling a tourist couple from georgia how he was actually very wealthy, owned lots of property in sf, and used to be part of KC and the Sunshine band. I mean in this city you never know so i chose to believe him. anyways then he started to ask the couple for their phone numbers so they could hang out in atlanta since he had a house out there. At that point the couple was liek "oh here is our stop, we have to go bye!" i think they were lying because they got off on Castro street, which was a little fishy. Tuesday i decided to be ambitious. I woudl see that damn natural history museum, get it out of my system and then shop. I wasn't going to for reals shop because i have no money but i did have macy's dollars and some credit from copeland sports, and you can't keep a good girl down. My first stop was copeland's where i bought my first pair of warm up pants, very exciting. They are too long though so i might have to alter them. I also bought myself a puma baseball cap, my first cap ever. it was a day of firsts for many things.
So then i walked a few blocks to this so called museum. It was right next to burlington coat factory, slightly unsavery. Anways it sucked! no lie, totally blew chunks. they had stuff like this
it's a california condor. um...yeah whatever. They also had stuffed muskrats, and other various birds. no giant dinasaur bones. apparently they are not getting those until september. fuckers. So then i headed to the aquarium side of the museum which was more like a glorified pet co. No blow fish, no sea horses. you all know how much i love love love sea horses. 
they did have this fish though. they had pretty much all the fish from finding nemo. But yeah, it was no marine bay aquarium is all i have to say about that. I decided to walk on and head for some solace at one of my favorite stores. The container store!!!
If you have not been yet, i highly recommend it. You will find things that you never new you needed. I wish i had more stuff so that i could find places to store it! But really let's get to the highlight of my excusursion, my new european walking shoes. very exciting stuff. so macy's had this deal where if you bought things on pre sale last week they gave you a $10 gift card for every $50 you spent. Well with my mom's luggage set, my one suitcase, and her deisel shoes we racked up 8 of these gift cards. That's right $80 macy's dollars to spend on whatever we wanted (except furniture and makeup which was a real bummer because i needed a new eyeliner). The only catch was that you could only use it on the 18th through the 20th, but for me this was perfect since i was going to be in sf on the 18th at a flagship store no less!
So anyways i thought either i would buy some kind of top or summer dress or i'd look for some casual walking shoes. So anyways i looked at the pumas but really everyone and their mom has pumas, and i already have some pumas, but then i saw the whole table of lacoste shoes. Oh how this took me back to florence 3 years ago when Saxon and i bought lacoste tennis shoes before they were even sold in America. Anyways i bought these shoes.
cute, no? Actually they were the very shoes that saxon had bought that day in Florence except that his were green. I remember being really annoyed because i wanted a pair too but at that time they hadn't made them yet for women. So i bought a different pair. of course in typical euro fashion they were way ahead of their time and these shoes have probably come and gone in euro styles. can you believe saxon and i were on the fore front of fashion. Anyways he also bought a pair of said wrap arond pumas which you couldn't get in america yet. i think he paid almost 200 euro. I really really wanted a pair but i couldn't afford them at the time because i was hording sisley clothes. Anyways the point is that i saw potential for the shoes and so i should get some fashoin snaps for that. So Anyways i am very excited for my new walking shoes. Just imagine an outift with these shoes, and city shorts. it would be too much! cathy, can you emagine! Also sidenote, cathy, these are orange shoes done right.... Anyways david said that they had a hint of euro trash which i informed him was just the look i was going for. Point of the story being that i used my macy's dollars and got the shoes for free! rock on macy's!
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