San Francisco

27 October - 7 November 2006

As a boy a bit older than me, Dada used to play football in the garden of Ethers in Fleet. Now he's moved to Walnut Creek in SF with Rebecca and got himself kids. First up, and almost as big as Christmas in commercial terms ... shalloween















Why are they always trying to make me sit for stupid pictures? So I put my foot down, no more posing or dressing up for silly pictures















Look at Mama the horny devil. San Francisco was so much fun. Mama and Dada found me a girl to play with. And there's 2 copies of her, sometimes she calls herself Mia and sometimes Kiera















Now time for some touristy shots. The bridge didn't have a gate. Nor was it golden. Rubbish name. Then comes Lombard Street, the twisty one you see in movies. Lucky Dada was driving





























So anyway Dada is getting fat on his travels ... either that or he's going to give birth soon. So Dada played some co-ed football to get fit. Co-ed is like normal football except that girls play. Apparently its still a 'sport'. Dada got a hat-trick which sounds good, but like a man having an affair, he never mentions the misses. Also him and Ethers cycled up a mountain. STUPID or what? ESPECIALLY seeing as Dada had the squits. Here he is just after his 9th poo of the day





























After 4 hours, they made it to the top of Mount Diablo with Adam and Chris (more friends of Dada). On the way down Ethers front wheel jumped off the track, he went head over wheels and sustained a temporary blackout, multiple scratches and a black eye. Funny. Apart from that Dada said cycling down a mountain is about as much fun as you can have. Cycling UP a mountain sucks. He'll do it again















So Dada went to Mountain View's very own Ron's Farmhouse to do a 'comedy' gig. It's very different in the US, there were at least 20 acts and the show lasted 4 hours. Dada was annoyed they put him on first. It went OK and Dada finally got heckled, something he'd been waiting for and was well prepared. But I won't tell you how he dealt with Mr. Heckler because he will using the same technique on the next one (p.s. sorry grandma). Here's the drunk 'heckler' with his 'minger':















Also Dada went to another radio station, this time Alice where he met Jayn, Webster & Chris. But not Alice. Dada had a nice time so in return he sent them a nice little song all about Alice, whoever she is















I scared Mama and Dada quite a few times in Walnut Creek, that'll teach them not to watch me EVERY WAKING MOMENT. I got into a bubble bath with all my clothes on, climbed up onto a dining-room table and, see this tree house below ... I was in the top bit all by myself ...















Also in San Fran: Bumping into Meek in the middle of San Fran on a train platform, Dada playing indoor footy where The Garglars gave him 10 minutes in which he was sinned binned, got a bleeding nose, a warning, hurt his left knee. Still they won 5-4 (Ethers with the winner) AND Spurs beating Chelski ...

Things Dada hates about travelling: Sofa beds, remote controls with no batteries, terrorists, foreigners (joke), e-mail spam (nearly on 100,000), TV commercials, not selling his mini and the bloke at the comedy gig who had the routine about being born with tastebuds in his armpit. Funny man

big UP: Ethers, Rebs, Mia, Keira and Luca Etherington-Smith, Missy and Joe and the Iris Lane massive, Simon Jones, Meek, Mark & Senna, Sean & Victoria with Thomas & Samantha, Ameen and his guests at the party where Barney first went down a step forwards (oh shut up it was cute), Tim & Stacey with Brooke & Sabrina, Alex & Theresa with James & Dominic, Alice 97.3's Jayn, Webster & Chris

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