We woke up late in San Jose since we were up until 2am. Bill had to get up at 5am though and Ryan and Peter went to pump some iron in the morning. When they got back we all went to lunch and then to supermarkets, which is our favourite activity. We went to Trader Joe’s first which everyone seems to recommend so I thought would have the most normal food, but it was still real real weird. We bought a bunch of supplies and then Lyndal and Shara went to Safeway. I’m not sure how weird that experience turned out to be.
When we got home Shara and Lyndal made the Americans some caramel slice, since slices don’t exist in America (WTF), and Peter and I went to go buy some beer, and then drank as much of a 40 of malt liquor as we could (review forthcoming).
In the evening we all drove to San Francisco in two cars (Bill and Ryan have tiny cars) to see Aziz Ansari. This time Bill did not get lost once! He did get yelled at by a surly San Franciscan though, I thought they were meant to be friendly? I am disillusioned! Anyway the show was great. Wes and his girlfriend Lisa met us at the show, which was awesome. When we got seated we looked over and noticed that Eugene Mirman was just chillin by the bar. Bill talked to him and it turned out he was just “welp, maybe I’ll warm up the show”, so we got to see two great comedians for real cheap. We got to see Nick Kroll too, although I had never heard of him. Lyndal was confounded and enraged by the concept of a two drink minimum. I just got drunk instead. After the show we gave Aziz a bottle of Lift we had brought from Australia because he mentioned in his blog that he loves it. When he saw us waiting with it in the line he got real excited and kind of ignored the dudes in front of us. We then had some group photoz at historic location 1 Maritime Plaza (not historic) and then Bill got lost several times on the way back to the car (Bill is hilarious). We went to Fisherman’s Wharf and proceeded to go to a souvenir store and spend all our time picking out marijuana-related merchandise and saying “hey Lyndal, you want this”. We are pretty funny. We split up again to drive home. Lyndal and Shara went with Peter and Ryan to drive very fast up and down San Francisco’s hills, and I went with Bill, Wes and Lisa to drop them home and fill up with petrol. Petrol stations in America let you pay at the pump and include that latch on the nozzle that means you don’t have to stand there holding the trigger like a chump. Take note Australia!
Lisa and Wes came back to San Jose to rock out and eat caramel slice. We did not get much sleep on this night either!
