Emily and Mitchell in the USA

A weekend away in Vegas for the biggest emo festival ever! (If you want to just read about the festival, scroll down until you see all blue. Likewise, if you don't want to read all the nitty gritty details about the bands and what songs they played, feel free to skim over the part in blue.) We left after work on Friday evening and other than one pee break we went straight to Vegas, arriving just before 10pm. We checked into our hotel and they gave us a free bottle of wine to take up with us! We had a glass as we looked at the view out of our window. We could see the large observation wheel and some of the other hotels and casinos lit up (and the gas station and car park across the road). We considered going out to explore that night, but we had lots of time for that later.  Saturday On Saturday morning we had a lie in as we knew it would be a late night. We found a place for breakfast, which turned out to be attached to a casino, and then started our journey along the strip. We wer...

This last week or so, we've done lots of little new things, so I thought I'd collect them all together into this post. Last week (before Asta arrived) we did some more things with the meet-up group. On the Tuesday we went for mini golf in the glow in the dark place we'd been to before which was fun and then we all went for food at a nearby bar afterward. We got to talk to the other British guy and his wife which was fun, as we got to do all our inside jokes about England which we miss.  On the Wednesday I got to visit another new library. This one was up in the mountain town of Idyllwild. We've been for several hikes and a couple of camping trips up there, but haven't really explored the town. All of the buildings are built like log cabins, with lots of wood and rustic furniture out front.  A viewpoint on the way The deck in the trees where I had lunch The library was very cute, with special sections dedicated to hikers, and pinecones everywhere. It was also fire pr...