Wow, it’s over 16 weeks here, almost 4 months! The last month has just flown!

So, what did I do?

I took a flying visit to Texas for work, literally a two day trip, but some nice weather over there.

I took a little longer trip to San Francisco, it was absolutely brilliant, was great to see old friend’s again! I spent some time when I got back making a ‘photo book’ of the trip, short but sweet and definitely well worth the air miles. :)

Click here to get the poor quality version, the full quality one is huge!!

We went to local bars, restaurants, spent a flying visit to Alcatraz, literally when the Blue Angels Airshow was circling overhead! Had some good California food and chocolate, even got some Irish Chocolate into the bargain, throw in a campus tour, a dinner party, a trip to wine country and a great dinner in the Culinary Institute of America…. and it’s not bad for a 3 day trip!!

I also took a trip out to Stone Mountain, yes, it really is a mountain (well, maybe a large hill), made out of one big rock! It’s pretty cool, and the leaves were just starting to change colour, so I think I got some nice photos from the top! It’s about 20 miles outside Atlanta, so you can see the skyline in the distance, it was a gorgeous day, I even hiked to the top — definitely going to go back.

There’s a huge carving memorial to the Southern Generals:

I loved walked down by the lake, it was heavenly:

See what I mean by the mountain just being one big rock:

Even the walk up the path, while tiring, was really pretty:

Atlanta, and Georgia more generally is just covered in trees, one of the nicest parts about the place:

Here’s midtown Atlanta skyline from a distance:

The walk down was far better than the walk up the mountain:

Hollowe’en is huge over here, there’s parades, dressed up houses, competitions for costumes for everyone, not just kids, etc. We even had a few hours of ‘games’ in work in honour of the occasion!!

They even asked us to dress up in work! I went for the “Matrix” look (aka all black), but tried to pick up some fake guns in the party shop and they were all sold out, had to settle for knives!

I took the easy route out on Hollowe’en night, went to a party in Midtown as an Assassin, all black with knives, but without the trenchcoat, which was so unbearably warm!

Other than that? It’s strange, this place is starting to feel a little bit more like home, have printed out a lot of photos and stuck them up around the place and it’s starting to feel like it’s mine, here’s some photos of the photos.

Other than that? I’m planning my trip home, hope to have that sorted soon and then it’ll be really fun! Just need to get some friends to keep an eye on my plants for me :) Nice peace lily in my bathroom and my poor fern is still holding on, barely, to life!

Any requests for Christmas pressies on the Fio express, just shout.