We had some sad news yesterday. We took our 18 yo cat Mongo to the Vet yesterday becasue she was doing poorly. She didn't come back with us <8-(

 

Di adopted her the year we got married. She was a stray in the aera we were living in. She has been with us ever since. Moved with us in Canberra and the took a drive to Syndey with us. Took the long journey across the Pacific to Seattle with us, and most recently drove down to San Jose with us.

 

She definately had a good life and we will miss her a lot.

Sammie turned 8 yesterday. I am pretty sure she had a reat day, despite the fact we are in a completely different city from her friends, and the place she has pretty much always known as home. We have now been in temporary accommodation in Sunnyvale for two weeks.

 

We started yesterday (only the second wet day we have had since being here) with Sammie getting up to unwrap her presents. We had a great home cooked breakfast courtesy of Di and then the kids watched Viva Pinata. They are having withdrawal symptoms from the game as th 360 i spacked up with the rest of our stuff.

 

They we packed ourselves up and headed to Monterey. We were pretty sure Sammie would get a kick out of the aquarium there. So in torrential rain, we headed down the 101 through Gilroy, which will soon be our new home town, on down to Monterey. The aquarium was truly awesome, even though it was packed.  We had a great lunch there and then did a work along Cannery Row. By this time the sun had come out and it had stopped raining and although a ot cool it was a great afternoon topped off with some Dippin Dots - the ice cream of the future - as Harry loves to remind us.

 

We then headed back to San Jose and stopped off at the house in Gilroy we know we have a contract on for a quick look. We can't wait to get settled in there, but it will still be a few weeks before that happens. Then it was back to Sunnyvale. Sammie loves Kookaburra Wings from the Outback Steakhouse so her birthday dinner request was for those. We found the closest Outback Steakhouse and headed off for dinner. Turns out we ended up in Cupertino, right opposite Infinite Loop and the Apple HQ.

 

All in all a great day was had by all <8-)