San Francisco here we come

It's Thursday June 15 and is the day that the three of us head west to San Francisco. Its my favorite city since being here with Adam last October for two weeks. It felt like home away from home and I'm excited to be coming back, this time for even a longer stint. We checked in with Amwerican Airlines at Chicago O'Hare airport and again my luggage was over weight. I took as much of the heavy stuff out and stuffed into my carry on as physically possible without the zipper bursting or the carry straps snapping before getting there, so I just couldn't believe it. Anyway as it happens because I flew over with Qantas, American Airlines doesn't charge excess luggage. You little ripper. But enough is enough of this excess weight buisness, I'm going to have to send some clothes home. Do I really need five pairs of jeans and countless t'shirts and shoes that to this day I have still not worn?

We are also advised that there is no included meal service on our flight. They will be selling snack packs. Pardon!!! This is something like a four and a half hour flight and the ticket cost me a small fortune, ie more than $500, and now I had to pay for my food. It appears that American Airlines is not a full service airline, wholly hell. We still had bits and pieces of food left over from our stay in the hostel, so we found a food outlet where we could buy bread rolls and we took them on board to make out own sandwhiches. Its amazing what Kate can whip up with a few left overs.

We land in San francisco and make out way to my friend Williams place. Again we are lucky enough to have someone put us up. Some of you may remember Will from Adam and my trip over to San Francisco last October. His photo appears a number of times on our blog from that trip.