San Jose Morning

It is a very nice morning. But apparently things are going to get a lot worse weather wise later in the week. Never mind.

Found this outside the room in our motel.

And this is our motel. We are just about to head out for a day trip. I'm taking the camera, there will be pictures....

Do I know the way to San Jose?

Yes. In fact I'm here now writing this. Sitting in my motel room with free WIFI and a big bed. Which I plan to use in a minute or too. But first, the start of the reportage.



At Manchester airport they had a very impressive skylight.



On the plane to Chicago they had happy cheese.



This was the roof of the moving walkway accross the airport in Chicago. Impressive for a ceiling I thought.


..and this is where we just had tea. More tomorrow.

Gungy

Helped out at the University Awards Ceremony tonight. I did some judging and some presenting. Great fun. Half way through we had a quiz called "Hostage to Fortune". Two local schools were in the final. Each school had a quiz team and one very special member:

You may be wondering why the two people in special suits. In a padling pool. Well, at the end of the quiz this happened:

I thought the tradition was that only the loser got gunged, but apparently in Hull we are made of sterner stuff.

Bongo Friendee

My next door neighbours have a car which revels in the name of a "Bongo Friendee". It is a super four wheel drive people carrier with the best name I've ever heard. I think it originally hails from Japan.

I can't find the bit of the car called "Bongo" (although I swear it is there) but I found the "Friendee".

Manly Voice

Got a very manly voice at the moment. Something to do with a throat thingy which I seem to have caught. I feel fine, but I have very a very impressive rumbly way of speaking. I think I should record a bunch of movie trailers and advert voice overs before the usual sound comes back.