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Monday, July 12, 2010

I'm in San Francisco now! It was about an hour and a half drive. I still felt carsick even though the roads weren't twisty like yesterday. We arrived at our hotel at half twelve. My sister and I went dived into the pool, even though it was cold. Well, before that I went on the internet. But I had nothing to blog about so I went swimming. people expect it to be hot and sunny in california but that isn't what the weather is like. It's bright, but it's cold. Or breezy, you might say. So if you plan on going there, don't pack t-shirtsand shades bring a jacket! After the swimming pool, we went into town. We went on a cable car! In the tv show That's So Raven it shows a cable car going up on the hill to her house and before that, it shows the Golden Gate Bridge. In San Francisco, there are hills, with hills on top and cable cars traveling up and down them. And there's the Golden Gate Bridge too, of course. Well, we went on a cable car, up and down hills. And on those hills, I was noticing how the houses are built. They are town houses with old fashioned windows on the outside. Some are town houses, painted bright yellow or light orange with square windows and a part of the roof, diamond shaped a level higher than the rest of the roof. I noticed that the houses in Boston are built with wood on the outside, normally without fences to seperate houses from each other. And in Ireland the houses are made all sorts of ways. We went into San Francisco, looked around at the shops and went into a bookshop with two floors. Here in America it seems that every bookshop has at least 2 floors. My dad and I agree that we should have Barnes and Nobles in Ireland as well, now that we only have one good bookshop, Waterstones. When

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