So this is my experience of the trip, lol.
Woke up, got dressed, and called Jeanine at 9:30 am. Turns out that she had overslept and that I had woken her up...XD I arrived at the train station just as my train was leaving, so I waited with no one else on the platform for about 15 minutes for the next train, met up with Jeanine at her station, sketched on the train while Jeanine played tetris, and then we arrived at the first destination-West Field Mall in San Francisco. The meetup place was Borders, but since it was our first time at the mall, we consulted the handy ELECTRIC TOUCH SCREEN MALL MAP TO FIND BORDERS. But in the end, we still had to ask the mall concierge for directions... We were the first to arrive in Borders and met up with Miguel and the rest of OMG5 shortly afterwards, and we all headed upstairs to see Forbidden Kingdom. Not a faaaaantastic movie, but pretty entertaining with Jet Li, Jackie Chan, and the girl from Condor Heros (YAAAAAAAAN GOOOOOOR). I spent most of the movie laughing at the bad wigs (especially the long silver one!), admiring the costumes, and wishing that I had learned kung fu when I was little. XD After the movie, we followed Migurl, who knew how to get around on public transport in SF better than we did, to the bus to japantown. It was the first time many of us have ridden buses, so we looked like inexperienced suburb noobs on the bus. XD
Arrived at Japantown, and I ran off to see if I was on the Japanvideo Cherry Blossom Festival billboard- I was, but I was closing my eyes, much to my embarrassment... 
I also took my ceremonial "make my deranged samurai face" picture in one of the many japantown insert-facers-things, and my head got a bit stuck. XD
We had lunch at a restaurantwhichIforgetthenameofnowbutithassushiandoyakodon, and we had sushi or oyakodon. I washed my hands when everyone went in first, and they went afterwards because we took public transport and all. I was bored and was taking pictures of myself when Victoria snuck up on me and scared me into screaming.
Miguel impressed most of OMG5 with his wasabi-eating powers, but he was no match for my peanut-butter consistency wasabi/soysauce mixture and pure wasabi eating powers. (My nose hurt afterwards though)
Nick seemed to find it very funny... We talked about cosplay and convention experiences for the rest of the lunch-time, like Jeanine's wonderful Death-note movie experience at Anime Expo, and our hotel-cooking-hairspray+ricecooker near-death experience and just spazzed about Fanime the rest of the time. After lunch, we did purikura! (My favorite part of the day, lol.) We were joking around that purikura turned normal people/guys into BEAUTIFUL KAWAII JAPANEZ WOMANZ, but IT ACTUALLY WORKED See my deviantART journal : http://bubydub.deviantart.com/journal/17740342/#comments for the purikura pictures. : D
We crammed everyone in the tiny photo-editing booth, and spent a looooong time decorating the pictures, spazzing about the timer running out (it froze at 35 lol), and spent a long time cutting them into individual photos (4 sheets worth!). There were a bunch of duplicates of the sperm and OMG5 lawl, and not enough concubines to go around, so I didn't get one. ;__; Sadly, Victoria, Nick, and Tonya had to leave early, so me, Jeanine, and Miguel sent them to the bus stop and just hung out and had dessert (dream cake for those two, creme broule for me) until Jeanine's parents mysteriously appeared in Japantown early, and we had to part ways. It was a really fun day, and I can't wait to see everyone at Fanime! 
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