San Francisco Trip

One of the benefits of working for both a non profit museum and a major corporate company is that I get to feel like I'm making a difference, yet still enjoy the perks of a corporate expense account. 

This last week, our corporate company needed to send their private G4 down to Napa Valley to pick up an investor. Luckily, the museum also wanted to visit an exhibit maker down in San Francisco and a few people, including myself, were invited to hitch a ride on the G4. 

So, here are some pictures from that trip. 

It was a gorgeous day in San Francisco!

The place where we ate lunch.

I had to order the fish and chips!

Some of our volunteers came along and visited the San Francisco Maritime Museum.

The museum staff and I went to the Exploratorium in downtown San Francisco. It was so much fun, and this is a picture of a tornado exhibit they had.

The gorgeous structure that the Exploratorium is housed in. 

San Francisco rush hour traffic.

It's a long story, but we had to drive to Stockton for our return trip in the G4. I took this picture because it brought back so many memories from when my family lived in California. We used to take road trips, and I always looked forward to the windmills and the rolling hills. I used to think the hills looked like sleeping dinosaurs, and I thought the same thing on this trip.

Spin-Masters

Some of you might know that I'm semi-obsessed with the celebrity world. 

I pass the time by checking Usmagazine.com, eonline.com and dayoldnews.com throughout the day. I get in heated discussions about Shiloh Jolie-Pitt's cross-dressing tendencies and whether Cash Warren did make out with Lindsay Lohan (hello? You're married to Jessica Alba! Get your shit together).

But there are times that I get a little thrown by the Hollywood PR machine. I mean, there are some absolute spin masters. I think the perfect example is....

Justin Bieber. 

Who the hell is this kid? He's like 10 years old and came out of nowhere. It was like one day the world was ruled by the Jonas Brothers, and then all these screaming tweens converted and started following this Bieber kid. 

His name is all over twitter. He face is plastered all over the news shows and magazines. Girls are fainting at his concerts. And he just recorded a song with Ludacris (this is crossing the line. Child Protective Services needs to get involved at this point).

I swear his PR team just started walking around and saying, "What?! You don't know who Justin Bieber is? Wow, you must've been living in a hole for the last year." And then everyone believed them!!

These guys are masters. But I'm not jumping on the bandwagon. Maybe I'm just too old for this crap anymore. I'm not going to fawn over some guy who isn't even flirting with the puberty line.