airbnb love

Alright, so this is how it goes down. Erin and I have booked most of our accommodation for our 4 month trip, through the company airbnb.
It's a site where people rent out either rooms in  their house, or entire apartments for travellers.
With all the bookings that we have through this site, it can get pretty crazy with communication. when you're so busy exploring the whole world n stuff things can creep up pretty fast! You need to be on the ball when keeping in touch with your next place of stay.



ANYHOW.
 A few days ago we get round to touching base with our san Fran house...person. The man offers a few different routes to get to his house which is lovely. Then the day before we leave we get another message from him explaining to us that we don't need to worry about catching a cab to his abode, he has connections and can sort out a private driver for us.

At this point we're like, heck yes! feeling preeetty happy. it's good to know we have a free ride and can relax when we land in San Fran. Our usual drill is scrambling into a taxi exhausted and unaware of where the hell we're going.

so we leave L.A...and few hours later we finally land in the land of fog. Then as the text message tells us to, we collect our bags, then start hunting for a man waving our names on a piece of paper.

As we come around the corner i see a man holding a very bold colourful sign with our names.. then on one side of him i see a girl holding champagne... and the other side, a lass holding a balloon and flowers...i creep up to the trio.. and wave in a "hey they're our names but are you guys really for us? " kinda way.
 We get welcomed with hugs and screams and way too much energy and we kinda go along with it but really have no idea what the hype is about. I'm just starting to think that san Fran is just a REALLY FRIENDLY city. 

It turns out airbnb's main office is in san Fran, and these guys have noticed our 17 or so bookings through their site and wanted to take the time to welcome us to their city and take care of our transport.... aaaand they were super keen on having some drinks with us in their office... crazy. I think it took us at least 15minutes to understand what the hell just went down. But ah yeah, we feel pretty special, and i feel like we will really enjoy this amazing city!