While we were driving from Jerome, AZ to Prescott, AZ we stopped in the mountains to check out the snow. It's very bizarre when you're down in Phoenix, in the middle of the desert surrounded by cacti, to think that there are pine trees and snow just 2 hours north of you! As you can see it was pretty warm up there too, still t-shirt weather when it wasn't windy...

Inspired by our friends Jim, Barb & Daryl who spent Christmas day out at Jerome AZ, we decided to follow in their footsteps and spend a day up there ourselves. It's a beautiful old small town, built into the side of a cliff it seems as you hike (or drive) ever upwards through the rows of small shops until you reach the haunted Jerome Grand Hotel at the very top. The hotel was formerly a hospital and it's restaurant is called "The Asylum", which probably gives you some clues as to what kind of hospital it was and why the place is so haunted ;-)

We just spent a great weekend in San Diego, CA. Checking out OldTown, Gaslamp, Coronado, The Embarcadero, Balboa Park, Mission Beach & La Jolla was all tons of fun. We can't wait to go back again... or get rich enough to move there!

I went to PDX last weekend to see peoples. I went shopping all day on Friday with my friend Lisa. We found the coolest store on N Dekum and N Interstate called Alex Sandra's. It is women's vintage clothes. I got two really cool dresses. You need to check it out. The owner is a blast. We had so much fun trying on stuff.

At the Wynn hotel they have an amazing waterfall surrounded by trees that they project all kinds of stuff on. Tonight we saw giant robot flowers dancing a duet, followed by a James Bond intro style version of Creole Lady Marmalade. Very cool...

Found this wonderfully gay statue of Siegried & Roy & a tiger outside the Mirage!

I'm blogging from the Mirage right now where Sarah & Tony brought us to the Beatles bar 'Revolution'. The Cirque du Soleil show 'Love' is here so the whole casino has Beatles stuff everywhere. I'm off in search of the Blue Meanie...

Hi all, Im live blogging on my iPhone from Vegas! Sally's friend Sarah and her boyfriend Tony are here for the weekend so we drove up to meet them. It's crowded. We checked in and headed straight to margarittaville for some food as after 6 hours in the car we were starving. Ciao :-)

Monday was our last day in Portland and we had to be back at the airport around 4pm. This gave us a few hours to run around and see some more friends, so we started out with a quick breakfast back at the Doug Fir again - yes I do miss that place! Then back into downtown in search of one of Sally's best friends Nick. We knew he was working at a store called UnderU4Men which sells fun & cool underwear for men - you'll never buy your underwear in packs of 3 again after seeing this place :-) We weren't sure if he would be working a shift when we got there, but luckily he was, and even better he was busy changing one of the window displays so we crept up on him and leaped out in-front of the window. After a momentary look of "WTF?" he came running out to hug Sally so fast that they both nearly went flying out into the street :-) It was hilarious. We hung out for a while chatting to him, I checked out lots of underwear, and we all checked out the golf-ball sized hail that suddenly started falling outside. OK I exaggerate, but only a bit.

Sunday we majorly learned our lesson from yesterday and crammed as many different friends in as possible :-) We started out by going to the Doug Fir for breakfast with my friends Amanda & Jim. Amanda was in Phoenix visiting us last weekend, but Jim had ripped the tendons in his legs and couldn't come. Sure enough Jim came hopping in on crutches and painkillers, but it was great to see that he's still his usual funny self. They also had a gift for us, a beautiful Vargas print in a delightfully tacky plastic frame that Jim had found at an auction or something. It's one of the nicest gifts I've ever been given ;-)