Doing laundry is starting to become the bane of my life! This time I thought it would be easy as I had loads of quarters and there were 3 machines free (1 was out of order, this alone should have given me some misgivings about what was to lie ahead!). So I load up the machine and set it to wash, then go back to our hotel room to wait. 38 minutes later I go back to put the washing into the dryer but I find that the machine has got stuck on the rinse cycle! So I a...

Yesterday Steve had to go into work for a couple of hours because he left early to go to the wedding on Friday. But it wasn't too bad as I went in with him and just surfed the net. After he did his work we went into the local sports store and I got a fleece and beanie (both North Face and super cheap! I now look like I'm sponsored by them though!) as it's getting pretty chilly now. I was starving hungry as we hadn't had lunch so we went to McDonalds as it was ...

Today we went to Star and Martin's wedding! Steve went to work in the morning and then one of Steve's colleagues, James, gave us a lift as the wedding venue was about 120 miles away in Monterey! It took us about 3 hours to get there as the navigation tool on James' iPhone only updated every couple of minutes so he kept missing the exits on the freeway! But it was a fun car journey as we got to talk to James a lot and get to know him. Luckily we got to the venue...

We've now been in San Francisco for 2 weeks and we're now starting to feel quite settled. Steve is getting into the swing of things at work, whilst I've been sorting things out for our new apartment that we'll be moving into on 24th Sept. Steve's old work chum from Kuju, Gina, is in San Francisco on holiday until Friday so we met up with her in a nearby brewery restaurant that she's frequented on her many work-trips to San Francisco. It was called the Thirsty B...

We were pretty knackered after our trip to Japantown yesterday so we decided to have a bit of a lie in before having brunch at the diner that we can see from our hotel window. It's called Olympic Cafe in reference to the Olympic Games, but believe me you wouldn't be doing any such activities after a meal there! We took a bit of time choosing what to order as there's so much choice and multiple combinations of breakfasts you can have. Even when you think you've n...