Mr Button declared he wanted to go hunt a bear. Not with guns you understand, Mr Button states (in Vogue magazine June 2011) that he loves all animals and would be a vegetarian if he didn’t love eating steak so much (he loved Texas).

So we struck out for Sequoia forest in search of bears. It was as we were driving through the forest that we caught sight of a bear ambling through the trees being closely pursued by a guy with a video cam. We are in the technological age where even bears are celebrities soon to be in the ‘spotted’ pages of Heat magazine or sim. So with ‘bear’ ticked off our list we went on our way to see some giants (trees that is). Sequoia’s are larger than red woods because of the width of the tree trunks as well as the height. We made our way to the giant forest and ‘General Sherman’ (the world’s largest tree) it even made Mr B feel rather insignificant, but alas the same could not be said for his over sized ego.

Trees done we made our way to California which Mr Button was most excited about, probably because of the prospect of seeing lots of tanned lovelies. But Mr B will have to wait as we are currently inland and no where near the coast so he just has to sit by and watch as I read trashy mags and drink wine into the evening, my skin lily white and blinding in the moonlight.