Big Girl Work Trip: San Francisco

For a few months after January Kickoff Meetings, some of my bosses were traveling around the country doing some meetings in our key cities.  Obviously, as the events team, we were the supporting cast for these meetings.  I opted out of much of the work/travel to focus on recognition trips (I think we all know how much I love a week in Midway, UT), but luckily I still had the opportunity to travel to San Francisco for what I like to call my "First Big Girl Work Trip" because it was my first time traveling alone to run a meeting for Nu Skin, and a city I'd never visited.

A meeting of 400+ Nu Skin distributors is seriously a walk in the park compared to navigating and sightseeing San Francisco for the first time, completely alone.  It might have been my least favorite trip based on frustration alone.  To be perfectly honest, it just wasn't as impressive as I was hoping it would be.  The Painted Ladies, or the Full House street, were so tiny in real life.  Ghiradelli Square was no cooler than the one I went to at Downtown Disney.  Don't even get me started on Chinatown, which people said is like New York's and couldn't be further from the truth.  The only two things I really loved were the Wharf and the Bridge.  I still dream about having another freaking amazing fish sandwich.

I would have loved to tour Alcatraz.  Hopefully someday I can go back and have the money to shop and the company to show me a good time.  I'm not writing the Bay Area off, I'm just saying my one day there didn't knock my socks off.

 This is the lovely sunrise over the water outside my hotel.  I had to help set up the room super early in the morning, then stay in the meeting until the minute I left for the airport.  That is what had me up early enough to catch a sunrise.

The one really funny thing about this trip (this story will show how lame the trip was) is from when I went to Chipotle to get dinner the night I was there.  Since I was alone and exhausted that seemed like the best option.  The boys that were working started asking me all these questions about what I was doing and why I was alone and in the Bay Area, etc.  They were really nice and gave me my food for free!  When I tried to argue with them they said they just wanted to make sure I came back again next time I was in town.  Thanks teenage boys for making my day!