Leave these poor sick monkeys alone; they're sick! They've got problems enough as it is!

So, as some of you may have noticed, I am an awful blogger. This summer, Amy, Vanessa, and I had the amazing opportunity to attend the first day of the Outside Lands Music Festival in San Francisco! I never fully documented the fun adventures we had, so I will reminiscently do that now. With Radiohead and Beck headlining, the cost of the ticket was such a small price to pay! Amy and I drove to San Franny on Friday morning, putting us at Vanessa's beautiful home in Daly City at around 3pm. We took the bus to the Lincoln stop, just outside of Golden Gate Park and enjoyed a scenic mile (or more) walk to the location of the festivities!

The booths were so fun. It was a music festival in San Francisco, so as you could imagine, it was full of eco-friendly products and information. There was homemade jewelry, hand made tie dye accessories, and cool companies such as Readymade Magazine and Benefit Make Up were in attendance as well. Benefit was offering free makeovers with samples, cute pink lollipops, and they planted a tree in your name in recognition of all the wild fires in California this year. Go Benefit! If I weren't so pleased with my Bare Minerals, I would definitely give Benefit a shot just because of their awesomeness.

Beck was fantastic! We had a great view of the stage and I was just so excited to finally get to see them perform live! Unfortunately, we had to peace out a little before they were done to get an

okay spot to see Radiohead, but it was all good. We decided to follow this rowdy crowdy because they looked like nothing could stop them from getting to Radiohead. Plus, it looked like they were taking a shortcut. Well, no duh they were taking a shortcut! They pretty much stampeded over a chain link fence and were climbing over picnic tables and up a freaken mountain. These folks meant business. So after climbing Mt. Everest and maneuvering many obstacles,

we had to try to squeeze our way through a sea of people. We made some distance, but I would have felt bad for going any further because these people had been waiting hours to see this amazing band, and my heart goes out to them, because I can totally relate :) I couldn't see the stage, but I have faith that they were playing beautiful music. They played a lot of their older stuff, which was sooo cool. It was fun to watch all the nerdy boys practically jee-ing. We had some interesting people around us. On one side, we had a couple who, from the looks of it, would probably never see each other again after this concert. Then there were the boys in front of us who were completely plastered. One of them kept offering to lift Amy on his shoulders so she could see the stage. Uh, gag me. Amy was about to bust a cap! But the concert was so amazing, in case I hadn't clarified.
We got back to Vanessa's house late, after we walked and walked and walked....and then waited an hour for a bus that wasn't completely full. Saturday, Amy and I decided to go to the SF Zoo because we had never been. It was a lot of fun. The gorillas, though, they were kind of...unsettling. Amy and I thought it would be cool if we communicated with them through our mad ASL skills, but we were apparently offending them because this fatty man gorilla kept rolling his eyes at us and even chomped at us a few times before retiring to their house thing. How rude. But I was pretty frightened by the chomping. After he disappeared into the house, I was waiting for him to show up behind us or something. Just walk on up and tap on Amy's shoulder or something, haha. So, please don't sign to the monkeys.
The rhino was cool. I kept waiting for Ace Ventura to emerge from his bottom, though. But yeah, he was cool, until a docent came up and said, "Isn't he amazing? He looks like an evolved dinosaur..." At that point, it was time to say goodbye to the rhino before he called on his dino friends and they took over the world, one zoo at a time. We also saw the infamous tigers and several places that may or may not have been the scene of the tiger attack. But we agreed that if either of us were being attacked by a tiger (or gorilla), the other would take of running, but definitely live to tell their legacy.
I don't know about zoos. It seems like the animals are so sad in those little caged habitats. They live so that little kids can gawk and scream. And retarded adults can try to sign to them. Amy had a great suggestion: Let's get them some television sets so that the next time we go, maybe the gorilla will want to communicate with us so he can ask what we think about Heidi and Spencer.