"San Francisco? That's the farthest we can go?"

"Calm down, Louis," said Mrs.Stevens, "You sister already doesn't want to go, and in case she wants to come home early or if something goes wrong I don't want you to be too far away."

"Alright, whatever, maybe you and dad can come party with us, we'll only be an hour away."

With that Louis went up to his room to call Twitty and Tawny and tell them to be ready to be picked up in the morning.

Dinner was tense that night; Louis didn't want to go to San Francisco, Ren didn't want to go out of the house, and their parents just wanted to be rid of them for a week.

In the morning Louis and Ren loaded their bags into the back of her car, picked up Tawny and Twitty, then headed west towards San Francisco.

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Lizzie couldn't believe her parents had agreed to it. She, Gordo, and Miranda would be over 400 miles away. Having McGuires in Berkeley really helps. Lizzie's mom did give a few rules, though.

1. The girls were to always sleep in a separate room from Gordo, even if it meant he had to sleep in the kitchen.

2. Don't hassle your aunt and uncle, they're being kind and opening their home for you to stay, if that means you can't do everything you want one day, don't complain.

3. BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) is only ok to ride if you are A.) with your aunt and/or uncle or B.) have their permission and are back at their house when they say you need to be.

The three were set to leave on a plane the next afternoon, and were each to call their parents when they landed.

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The scene in Pickford was a little different. It isn't because their parents had seen through the field trip lie, because they hadn't. Phil and Keely just didn't know how they were going to get there and where they were going to stay. In fact, they were still fuzzy on where "there" was.

"We shouldn't leave the state." said Keely

"Right, besides, there are a lot of places I haven't been to."

"Why not go up north?"

"Keely, we're in Southern California, "north" could mean a lot of things."

"Northern California, Phil. The bay area?"

After deciding they would stay in the low key city of Hayward, and that Phil would brave the 6 hour drive, Keely went back to her house to pack and be ready to get picked up in an hour.

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When Louis, Ren, Twitty, and Tawny finally arrived in San Francisco, it took them two hours to find their hotel, and when they got there, the clerk told them check in wasn't for another two hours.

"Why don't we get something to eat?" Twitty suggested.

"I'm not hungry." Ren stated.

"Yea, well the rest of us are." Louis snapped, already getting sick of his sister's antics.

"I'm not that hungry, actually." Said Tawny. "I'll hang out with Ren while you and Twitty get some food. Just meet us back here at 3:00 so we can check in."

"Fine, later." said Louis, still with a sense of irritability in his voice. Twitty gave Tawny an apologetic look, in case Louis' tone had upset her. She didn't even notice, she was already pulling Ren towards the car, leaving Twitty and Louis to walk.

"Where do you want to go?" Twitty asked.

"Whatever is closest."

"There's a place over there, it's called...The Chill Grill? Do you want to check it out?"

"Sure, it couldn't hurt."

Louis and Twitty decided just to order whatever the lunch special was, not feeling too adventurous. They both decided that the food was awesome, and that they were going to force Tawny and Ren to eat dinner with them there.

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Around 4 p.m. Lizzie, Miranda, and Gordo arrived at the Oakland airport. They were greeted by Lizzie's aunt, Jane. She wrapped them each up in a warm hug and took them down to baggage claim.

"I'm sorry your uncle Tom couldn't make it, he had to work."

"It's ok," said Lizzie, "we're just happy to be here."

"Wonderful! So what do you kids want to do today?"

"We were wondering if we could look at UC Berkeley." said Gordo. Miranda jabbed him in the side. The last thing she wanted to do on her Spring Break was look at schools.

"No we weren't," Miranda said, "We actually wanted to walk down Telegraph and maybe check out some venues like The Gilman, and iMusicast."

"We could look at Berkeley while we're on Telegraph, after all, it is at the end on the street." Gordo countered.

"Hold on a second," said Aunt Jane, "it seems you all have different agendas. Tonight why don't we just keep a low profile at home and plan out the week?"

"Sounds good." said Lizzie, who was tired of her friends, who had argued the same thing the whole flight.

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Hayward was just about as plain and boring and Pickford. Leaving both Keely and Phil disappointed.

"Why did we decide to stay here?" Phil asked.

"Because it's a really chill place...? We're a few minutes from Oakland and Berkeley and about 15 minutes from San Francisco." Keely replied.

"Yea, but, it seems so boring here."

"That's why we're only going to be here when we're in our hotel room, we can spend the rest of the time out doing things."

"Alright, let's just find the hotel and get settled." said Phil.

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(a/n: I feel a little bad because the only TSR thing in this whole chapter is the Chill Grill part. The next chapter should be centered around TSR, and I'm going to stop the whole switching from one show to another thing, unless I really feel a need to.

I would also like to thank my (2) reviewers, because they both put a smile on my face, and got me write this chapter instead of playing The Sims 2 last night.)