Congrats Tinyevil on your monumental step in life's journey.
It has been my experience that
there is a reason all of those people live in California, the weather. Personally, I couldn't put up with all of those people any longer, but you are young.
My favorite restaurant in the world is there in San Francisco and hopefully I get there again someday.
http://www.tadichgrill.com/
Their Cioppino is legendary.