Ooops

We've just had a lovely day at 'California's Great America' in San Jose. Lots of roller coasters, a magic show and fun in the pool.

Then we set off for the hotel we'd booked this morning in San Jose.

There are lots of San Joses the whole Spanish speaking world over, I assume. We forgot to check which one we had booked into. We just blithely assumed it was the one we were in, here in sunny California.



I began to question that assumption as we spent 2 hours looking for it only to discover no-one had heard of the street it was on. Eventually got some help from a lovely chap who ran a Hawaiian drive through and the sweet manageress at a Best Westin who fed us cookies as we stood in stark disbelief.

We were due that evening at the Hotel Petit at 24th St and Paseo Colon...




San Jose...




Costa Rica.




D'Oh!!!

Still, all's well that ends well and we're now tucked into a WiFi'd up motel in the San Jose we wanted and ready to get a much needed good night's rest. Tomorrow we plan to see the Winchester Mystery house. Wikipedia that for the full scoop, but it was built by the heiress to the Winchester Rifle fortune who felt massive guilt for all the killing done by her father's guns. A phony medium (are there any other kind) convinced her that the ghosts would be assuaged as long as she kept building her house, so she kept building and building random additions and alterations for donkeys years. There are stairs that go nowhere, pointless corridors, random extra chimneys etc etc. Should be interesting.


Getting back from Hawaii was hard. On the last day, our 4th Anniversary, we were up bright and early and by 6 AM we were catching waves outside the break at 'Canoes' on Waikiki Beach, standing up and riding sweet. A good day!

The day before we'd been 30m under the sea on a ship wreck hanging out with a pair of 6 foot long Hawaiian Green Turtles. Awesome! After that we rented 50cc moped and biked over to Diamond Head for a hike to the top.My beautiful wife looked oh so sexy tooling around on her moped.

Hawaii was good for us, and I hope we get to go back some time. Aloha everyone.