The journey towards living it up in San Francisco

Well, after a night with little sleep (thanks Tara, Nikki and Kath!) HB and I managed to pull ourselves out of bed and get to the airport on time to catch our flight. I was amazed to find that in our 2 hour wait in the departure lounge, there was not 1 televison! Thats right not one! The domestic terminal has tv's and you only have to wait there for up to an hour, but in international you get nothing but tacky duty free shops and to stare at a wall. Didn't they know that I wasI'm leaving the country for 3 months and needed to catch as much of the Ashes as I could, gosh!

The plane ride was pretty cool, we managed to get seats in the emergency exit aisle which was fantastic as we had room to stretch our for the next 12 hours, and we both have little tv's to play with and occupy time. The only downpoint was when the ice creams came around (splices I might add, mmmmm!) they were so cold that when I went to suck on one my lips got frozen to the ice cream (like off dumb and dumber with the licking of the chairlift). Never thought this thought of thing could happen but it did. I managed to remove my lips from the offending ice cream but in the process ripped off a good portion of my lower lip - sexy! At least the blood scared all the onlookers away...

Luckily everything else apart from ice cream eating has gone rather smoothly. Our bags arrived at San Francisco and not Vladivostok which was a major plus and we cleared customs fine. HB checked his snowboard bag before customs to ensure no Shappelle Corby like shenanigins and everything was ok. Almost been run over about 5 times, really have to learn to look left before I cross a road, however this isn't always the case as a lot of the roads are one way streets, so I still end up almost becoming a permanent addition to a Cheverlot's bonnet.

It's been rainging pretty hard today but we hit the famous hilly streets anyway and had a good wonder around downtown and the dock area. Within 5 minutes of walking HB's 'holy' shoes were drenched and he had wet feet for the rest of the day - a shoe shopping trip is definately in order for him! Our first meal in the USA was (fittingly) fast food. Oh the Land of Convienance! The 99c taco's were simply too good for HB to pass up. Managed to score some free food samples later on in some markets, and got several free cans of 'Monster Energy' (ala. red bull ripoff) from a passing promo vehicle - once a stingy student, always a stingy student?

In the end its the little things that have made the US different. Like having dinner in a shopping mall food court but being able to buy beer. Seeing an 'Afo Hair Care' aisle in a priceline pharmacy equivilent store.

Ok well im out of quarters will have to go, stay tuned for more updates and photos.