California Part 2

Now here's part 2...

I managed to purloin Liz's laptop again tonight, she isn't happy though, it means that she doesn’t get to read Dlisted tonight. For the benefit of all the lucky people out there who aren’t aware of Dlisted, its a celebrity gossip blog, it also happens to be the bane of my life, reading it comes just after plucking my nasal hair with rusty pliers on my to do list. Anyway, Liz loves it so I'm running quite a risk by writing this post tonight.

For those of you who have got this far and have yet to read the previous post, get a clue and read that first, this post has part 2 in it for a reason. Just scroll down and read the post below it first, you can come back to this one later.

Hopefully everyone reading this part should now have read the last post, so you'll know we're starting off from Friday of last week which is 7 days ago.

Friday we went up to a much bigger lake where Liz's parents rented a speed boat, it was a pretty big one though. I think the name of the lake was the New Mahoneys or the New Maloneys, something like that anyway. We had a big inflatable raft that we dragged around off the back of the boat. Basically one or 2 of us sat on the raft while someone drove the boat around the lake, trying to make the people on the raft fall off. It was brilliant, me and Liz went on a few times together and I went on once on my own. I also had a good go at getting Liz's dad to fall off the raft, I didn't quite manage it though, driving the boat was pretty cool though and I managed to keep it intact in the process which is always a bonus.

Me and Liz went off on our own again the next day on our trip down the coast. We started off by going to San Francisco and staying with her Aunt and Uncle, we didn’t go into the city on the first day as we didn’t have time, setting off from the cabin at about 3pm. So on the Sunday we went into the city and saw all the sights down the embarcadero. Alcatraz etc, we didn’t go over to Alcatraz because we didn’t really have time but I'll do it some time.
Unfortunately the Golden gate bridge was covered in fog so I didn’t really get the chance to see it, the rest of the city was clear though. It wasn’t that bigger deal, most of you know me well enough to know that I don’t care about touristy stuff so much.
At about 2:30 Liz's Aunt and Uncle came to pick us up to take us to a sneak preview of the California Academy of Science, it wasn’t due to open for a while but Liz's Uncle Mark had tickets to the sneak preview. Unfortunately the organizers picked just about the best day possible to hold the event. There were chocolate tasting events and Chinese Moon festivals going off left right and centre and the city was rammed with traffic as well as the swarms of pedestrians milling round stuffing there faces with chocolate and buying dragon charms (I’m speculating there, the only pedestrian I payed attention to was the guy crossing the road while being totally off his tits, he preceded to collapse in the middle of the road while cars drove round him, luckily he managed to get up and haul his intoxicated arse off the road before getting squished).
After like an hour and a half of driving through traffic we got to the building , there was no parking there though, it had obviously filled up with the charm buying chocoholic people. Someone from the Academy approached the Car and asked if were there for the event. He then told us that there was no parking so we should dive to this car park not far away and a bus would bring us back. On a normal day that would have been fine, but we only had a short time left to get to the event and the traffic was so thick we would have been there for hours getting to the parking area, let alone waiting on the bus to get back. For this reason we went home.

On Monday we got up and drove to Monterey, Monterey is a little seaside town , you'll probably have heard of it, it's where the pebble beach golf course is at. Also I believe John Steinbeck wrote a book about it, so there’s a little titbit for you mum.

When we got into town Liz was n a bit of a panic because nature was calling and had been doing so for quite a while up the road with no toilet in sight. I directed her past 2 petrol stations, both of which she failed to pull in at, she proceeded to drive around frantically, unable to find somewhere to go, I finally got her back to the petrol stations, she missed both again and refused to waste time going back to them. She then randomly turned onto a road which went up to a military facility. We were turning round when she spotted a portaloo by one of the buildings, we parked and I had to stand and guard the portaloo while she went and I was constantly being glared at by military types who obviously were puzzled as to why we were there, we jumped in the car quickly and drove away pretty fast.
The manager at he hotel greeted us with the information that he was sorry, we couldn’t have our room because he over booked, he then apologised for the fact that he was going to have to upgrade us to a suite with a Jacuzzi and a brand new bed. It worked out pretty good.

We went down 17 mile drive on the Tuesday while on the way to Morro Bay, 17 mile drive is a scenic drive around the coast of Monterey Bay. Id describe it but you wouldn’t get a good idea of what it's like (and i'm tired so i’m leaving stuff out) so you'll need to wait and see the pictures.

We got into Morro Bay that evening and went out to the big rock to see the sunset, unfortunately it was cloudy over the coast at the time so we didn’t really see it, I got a few nice photos of orange clouds though, and a few of the waves coming in etc.

After a night in the hotel we went down to the promenade to check out the shops etc, we left for Bakersfield at about 3pm and arrived here about 6pm. since then we've just been chilling out. I made curry for everyone last night and they're all still alive which is obviously a good thing. It went wrong but they seemed to like it and don't seem too ill today so I'll mark it as a success anyway.

Well I’m off to Antigua tomorrow night so everyone wish me luck. Not sure when I'll next write but make sure you comment on my posts this time you lazy bastards, 2 is a poor show, It's not to bad here but what about when I'm in Guatemala and, heaven forbid, this is my top source of entertainment. Get your acts together people!

Later

PS. can’t be arsed to load any photos into this post tonight, maybe another time