San Fransisco!

In order to graduate art students are required to take a travel class. Basically its a class meant just to travel somewhere to broaden our horizons and so we can understand the business world outside of school. I wanted to go on a Illustration trip to either L.A. or New York because that those are the biggest places for Illustrators. I was told there was going to be a New York trip this winter a few semesters back so I was planning on going on that and touring all the publishing companies and learning about the industry. But when I went to sign up for the class it wasn't there. So I ended up going on a fine arts trip to San Fransisco! We visited museums and ate a lot of fun food. It was so much fun but didn't really benefit me the way an Illustration trip would. Here are a few pictures I took. I didn't take too many with other people because when your in a group picture the person taking the picture is already loaded down with everyone's cameras and I didn't want to add mine too. Plus I broke my camera halfway through the trip. We are going to share photos later and when I get those pictures then I'll post them too!

This is just a cool building in Reno

One of my favorite parts of the trip was riding the cable cars through the roller coaster streets of San Fransisco.

We ate breakfast several times at a cute little french bakery called La Boulange. They had some really yummy pastries and quiches.

The Clay pot in China town.

The Japanese Tea Gardens were really beautiful!

Me with Buddha and a really beautiful pathway (this pic doesn't do it justice, my head got in the way.)

An old Japanese man practicing his Tai Chi...and Brother Geddes thought he should practice his Tai Chi as well...

De Young museum (where I broke my camera. =( )

I had a really great time in San Fransisco! Out of all the cities I've visited, San Fransisco was definitely my favorite, such an interesting city! I love all the diversity this city held from the diversity in architecture to the diversity in its people and the different cultures there.