When you're a grown up you're totally allowed whatever the hell you want for breakfast. Not pictured: the slightly more healthy option of fruit and a small bran muffin.

Yesterday we spent some enjoyable hours wandering around to get our bearings, and today we're going to the aquarium. I want to say hello to some sea otters. We've also just booked a couple of train tickets to go to Seattle at some ungodly hour tomorrow morning to visit one of the hubby's workmates and take him some fine Newcastle curios: a Newcastle United scarf and a tin of black bullets.

I'd have liked to have taken some Greggs pasties but they would have either gone off by now or been eaten while we were in the departure lounge at Newcastle airport :)

The weather today is kind of rainy and chilly, but that's why they invented fleeces and cagoules! Anyway, off to see some aquatic critters :)