After being a little disappointed with Chinatown we weren't expecting much of Japantown but we still wanted to check it out as it took only about 25 mins to walk there. From the photos in our guidebook we recognised the Peace Pagoda straight away - it is five-tiered and 75ft - apparently Taiko drummers perform here during the Cherry Blossom festival each April. The only building we could see that looked interesting was a mall which had lots of restaurants and s...

Sorry it's been a while since I've last blogged but the internet has been playing up and either been incredibly slow or refused to work. Seems like it's working OK now so here we go.... Steve has had a busy first week at work, getting used to taking the bus and getting a couple of shots done before Monday to preview. He says the people are nice and he's now met the big boss who seems cool and looks like a skinny version of Cheech (as in Cheech & Chong for th...

Today was the 3 year anniversary of the day me and Steve met! We didn't have anything special planned for today as Steve thought our anniversary date was later in the week! So he was surprised when he found a card I'd bought him in his sock drawer this morning! Steve got the OK to get the day off work because when he went in yesterday there was no PC set up for him and it wouldn't be ready until the end of today so he'd be sitting around doing nothing again! We...

We were invited to visit Star's mum & step-dad's new condo which is located on the other side of the Golden Gate Bridge, so Star and Martin picked us up in their car which was cool as we got to see more of the City and got to cross the bridge! There was quite a lot of traffic as it is Labour Day on Sept 1 which is like a bank holiday monday. But we managed to cross the bridge and find a parking space. The views from the bridge are amazing and we were so luck...

Today we decided to explore Chinatown as it's not there far away, about 10-15 minute walk. It's basically one long street of shops selling tacky stuff or chinese furniture/antiques. The only thing we foudn we wanted to buy was some prints of really cool chinese paintings but we couldn't decide which ones to buy so we went away to think about it. There weren't as many restaurants as I was expecting but we still had trouble deciding where to go to eat. Luckily t...