Well hellooo! Once again its dead early in the morning here as I just can't sleep in past 7. Although that might be because I crashed out at half eight last night after the cheapest dinner ever of some atomic yellow microwaveable macaroni cheese! This budgeting thing is going to kill me by the end, although hopefully the pressure will ease a bit when we get somewhere thats a weee bit cheaper. Oh and hopefully a little bit less inhabited by crazys. The mental...

Hi guys! Well we attempted to hit Alcatraz yesterday but by the time we got to the desk to buy the tickets they had sold out and so we had to buy them for today. It had totally escaped our notice that it was a Saturday and hence it would be dead busy. We got down to Fishermans Wharf on the cable car, like a tram thing that you see on all the movies. It was so much fun, especially as on the way back I managed to be the first one on (ok, I ran round to the fro...

Hi! First card! Just wanted to let you all know I am here safe and sound. The flight was mega long and dead boring but at least we don't have to go through that again. Oh hang, apart from in a week when we hit the Cook Islands! Anyway, off to Alcatraz today. Yesterday was just eaten up by getting here, via a plane, train and an automobile! Oh ok the car was just the parentals dropping me at Heathrow but we did get a train from the airport to downtown. I...