SAN FRANCISCO

I have no idea where to start... Well San Francisco, you are one awesome place! I am in love! I know I say it a lot (I know, every time we travel) but we have had the most amazing trip! We are definitely not ready to leave tomorrow! In fact I am not wanting to talk about that at all!

We actually bought the "real" camera this time (Cannon EOS 400D) and took some lovely snaps. So I just wanna post a whole bunch of them. They are by no means professional but they are slightly better than my usual iphone pics. Oh but I do lie a little, some have been transferred to picframe and are a duplicate of what I have already posted on Instagram (just because I would be posting a million photos otherwise)! So without further ado! 

It all starts with the awesome Bed and Breakfast we stayed at. This big old beautiful Victorian Mansion (turned into mini hotel). It was full of old antiques, creepy photos and loads of history. Right up our alley!

Japan town, where I found cherry blossoms! Unfortunately we went there a tad too early for the markets to be open. So we will have to go back again.

I know it's super touristy but I had always wanted to ride one of these. It was super cool! 

Wine Tasting in Napa Valley

Wine tasting in Sonoma too!

And Sonoma (where we also had lunch). Such cute little towns out there!

OMG the food in San Fran is amazing! We had this meal at a micro brewery. Where the beer was amazing too!

Had this meal, twice, at an old cinema, turned restaurant. Fried chicken- because I am on holidays damn it!

Stumbled across copious amounts of street art. These pieces are by Lango (Skull and Sword)

Watched Giant's Vs Phillies (was awesome and Giants one)!

The ball park is the best we have ever been to, right on the water (amazing)

I love this photo, we are at the Bay Aquarium. 

The Jelly Fish were my favourite! 

Watching the seals at pier 39

Fisherman's Wharf

Boats around the piers

Submarine on the wharf, there were big world WWII boats there too.

Musee Mechanique. Full of sweet old carny coin operated machines. So creepy, yet so fun! 

Grandmother telling Matt his future, he looks scared

Generally I just loved walking the streets and stumbling across things like this..

Only decent bridge shots we have are on a foggy day. The only foggy day we have experienced our whole trip! Think we have been pretty lucky with perfect weather for 10 days! 

China Town

And our trip to Yosemite National Park. I had to scale it down to just these few photos, otherwise I could have added like 500 here! I love, love, loved it there and want to go back and explore more. We had a very long, one day trip there and back, so very rushed. But I am so glad we got to see it anyway.

I am a dork but yes! I remember Full House being one of my favourite shows as a kid, so I had to see these houses.

I wish I could take my cats to the shop and leave them outside on a lead!!

Aaaaaand then the main reason we were in San Francisco was to get tattooed by Grime. Which in itself was an awesome experience. Our tattoos are amazing and what an awesome dude! Thanks so much Grime, what a way to top off our awesome trip!

So damn happy right there

I am so damn happy but showing it on the inside :D

Tomorrow we leave but as I said I am not talking about that. So will see you back in Oz! 

So we have some new merch coming really soon! We are doing silver on black T-shirts and Crew Necks. Sizes will be small, medium, large, XLarge and XXLarge. T-shirts are $30 and Crew are $50. It's pretty much same design as the last lot of t-shirts and crews we did, just a few slight changes to the image and the obvious change in colour. Should be sweet! I will post us modeling them when they come in. I won't be taking pre-orders because I find that I hold onto them for peeps and they never get picked up. So just holla when they come in if you want one. And yes I can send them overseas or interstate, no problems! 

T-shirts will be $30 each and Crew Necks - $50- Coming soon!

And Matt is going through one of those stages where nothing is getting finished, only started. So here's some pics of what he started or worked on last week. 

Matt actually started this a while back but hadn't added the lower part yet. Still a long way to go on this huge piece! Matt is adding images to the Kimono too. 

In case you forgot what the top half looked like

Some sweet tatties that Simo did last week:

Matt still has appointments available for Rites of Passage Festival. Due to cancellation he has the Sunday available and possibility for a small tattoo Saturday night. Email us if your keen progressiontattoo@hotmail.com

That's all

Tila Tequila Tattoos

Tila Nguyen (born Thien Thanh Thi Nguyen on October 24, 1981), better known by her stage name Tila Tequila, is a Singapore-born American internet celebrity, television host, author, model, entertainer, actress, and singer songwriter of Vietnamese descent.

Tila Tequila has a number of tattoos on her amazing body, a heart tattoo on her left arm/shoulder, another heart tattoo (this one has wings & also two guns crossed underneath it). On her back she has a scorpion tattoo & a Chinese Tattoo on the back of her neck.

Shenae Grimes Rib Tattoo and Others

Shenae has a tattoo that says "Myself & I" on the right side of her ribcage.
She got Japanese characters on her right wrist that mean "Keep Calm," and she explained why:

'Keep calm’ was an important lesson that I learned from the beautiful Japanese culture during my terrifying experience in Tokyo a couple of months ago. It’s one that I’ve always struggled with as a naturally anxious person leading a chaotic life growing up in the entertainment industry. Life happens hard and fast in this business and it’s not always easy to deal with but if I remember to channel the calm and resilient demeanor of the Japanese people and remember the scary moments I overcame while over there, I remember that I can get through anything just fine. You just have to keep calm in those moments to handle them as best as possible because they too shall pass. So keep calm and carry on kidlets… we should all try and be a little more like the Japanese when the going gets tough. Not recommending you go out and get a tattoo to remind ya of that as well but feel free to take a look at mine any time you feel yourself getting anxious or panicked over the little things! haha :)