Thursday 2 March, 2006
Pretty house in Oakland
Pretty house in Oakland, originally uploaded to Flickr.
We made it! Cold (but fresh). Happy (but very jetlagged) and have only one run in with pycho custom guy to report. He yelled at Virginia and I when we approached his desk together.
'Are you sisters!'
'No.'
'Then why are you coming up here together? Let me explain. One of you might be a murderer. Or have raped your husband. And you wouldn't want the other to know.'
And I still have absolutely no idea what he was on about.
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