STEVE'S 30TH BIRTHDAY!!! I tried to make it as special for him as possible which meant running around like a blue-arsed fly for a few days! PRE-BIRTHDAY:For his present I emailed Pascal and asked him to drew a personalised picture of me and Steve in San Francisco. I left the concept totally open and just told him about our blog so he could get ideas and also see the photos so he would know what I looked like! I knew Pascal worked super fast but I asked him at ...

I'm a bit behind with the blogging I'm afraid! I was busy sorting stuff out for Steve's birthday which was really good and all the details will be posted up soon!Today we had a lovely lie-in and it was all nice and peaceful until about midday when we looked down from our balcony and we noticed a lot of people milling around the civic centre. The main road was also cordoned off and there were marshals guiding people along - what on earth was going on? A quick sear...

This blog is dedicated to Shopping on a Shoestring! We've spent the last few days trekking around different parts of town and it's been really tiring but quite satisfying as we were on a mission to find things as cheap as possible. Afterall we're only here for another 2 months so we'll probably be giving our stuff away, but we can hopefully take some of the things we've bought home with us.I have to thank my Uncle and my cousin for pointing me in the right direct...

Today we went to The Cartoon Art Museum (www.cartoonart.org) as we wanted to see the Totoro Forest Project exhibition which was a display of artwork by many different animators, artists and illustrators that was inspired by Hayao Miyazaki's animated film My Neighbor Totoro. The artwork was previously auctioned off at a fund raising event at Pixar which is just across the Oakland Bay Bridge.The museum is quite small, it only took us around an hour to walk around, ...

Well we moved into our new apartment yesterday and it all went smoothly! Steve asked his friend at work, James, to give us a lift with all our stuff. We didn't have that much stuff really, just 2 suitcases, 2 rucksacks, a folding table and an airbed. Steve had already taken the 2 sleeping bags and pillows to the new apartment when he picked up the keys at lunchtime. Yep we're pretty much camping in our new apartment! We decided not to rent furniture as they have...