Helllooo all. So since my last blog not loads has happened. Me and the Brendan boy have been splitting our time between san jose and san fran. We met up with brian, an awesome guy from camp who left early. we hung out in san fran and had chinese for lunch in china town. We ate at a place called sam wos. it was unlike anything iv ever seen before! To get into the mdf built dining room you had to walk through the kitchen, complete with chiken heads on the floor and lots of relatives i the corner smoking. A meal cost the equvilant of about 2 quid and tasted amazing. I get the feeling it was real chinese food rather than the kind of western stuff we are all used to! so yea, we hung out in town, then went back to katies, hung out there, played lots of nintendo wii, laughed lots, stayed up very very late talking rubbish and watching movies. We then went back to san jose and kims parents took us out to this lovely italian restaurant. for dinner. We walked around down town san jose after we ate, laughed and chatted some more then went home. Day after we went into san fran again with some of kims friends. Shevani and justine, there's pics of them on facebook. They are both really great laughs and fabby tour guides so we had a good time just cruising round san fran seeing the sights. that night we got the bart (bay area rapid transport) back to katies house from san fran which is like a tube/train and took about 30 mins. Mine and brendans first real taste of independant american public transport, we did good! That night we did much the same again, ate, laughed, talked. Its really really nice with just me brendan and katie cos we all get on so amazingly that we never stop laughing and we all just seem to understand eachother, gona miss these guys like crazy. The day after we went back into san fran and met up with lizzy, an english counselor, and her boyfriend and her little sister who flew out after camp to see her. We had a really nice day, it felt like catching up with old friends even though its only been 2 weeks really. We all had so many stories to tell it was really nice, we all then went back to katies house and watched a movie, then them lot left and it was jst the 3 of us again. That night (last night) we went out for in and out burger for tea, its like fast food but cooked fresh, its good! hahaha 90% of my blogs are food related, i realised a while ago, tis funny!!! so we got more movies out, bought lots of energy drink, and stayed up till 5 in the morn chatting and watchin moves.... again!!!! This morning katie drove us back to san jose and we said our final goodbyes to her. That was really sad, her and brendan are a couple so that was hard, but she is studying in aus for 6 months and she leaves before brendan so im guessing they are gona see quite a bit of eachother. It was really hard for me, she is easily in my very top friends, here and home and it sucks that there are gona be so many miles between the two of us, not to mention the 3 of us. she is studying in germany after aus so im defo going over to stay with her for a while at somepoint, funds permitting of course! after katie dropped us off we set off with kim, jorge and lyle from new zealand to kims holiday home/grandads house in the sierras in a town called arnold. The house is lovely, we arrived here after an around 6 hour drive, on which we stopped at a little bar/grill place in the middle of nowhere, very stereotypical, lots of locals looking very inbred and food served on paper plates, we all got some very funny looks for beng foriegn! after looking at the menu for a while i spotted in the seafood section "frogs legs" very wierd, so i ordered them!!! they were actualy really good, a little like chiken i guess.. so here we are in the holiday home, about to go for a late night drive in the houses golf cart, should be fun!!!! Not an awful lot to report other than that, still having an incredible time, im completely exhausted, as is brendan who is snoring away on the bed behind me as i write this. We are going to sneak into a country club tomorow i think, perhaps a round of golf!! haha. right... the golf cart calls!! love to you allll!!! XXXXXXXXXXXXXX