How to press a penny

No coffee today, spent everything Pressing Penny's.
Here's a step by step guide on how you too, can blow it all on commemorative penny's.


1. Get 2 Quarters and a Penny






2.Select Design








3. Insert Coins








4. Crank the Handle 6 times








5. Result, a beautiful pressed penny

NZ vs USA

Location: Cafe Espresso: Auckland International Terminal: New Zealand
Coffee: Small Skinny Latté
Ambiance: Poor 1 out of 10
Flavor: 1 out of 5

Overall Rating: 3 out of 10


This morning when I woke up I had one thing on my mind.... California! Everything was going so smoothly, Miguel's lovely mum drove us to the terminal, we checked in while she bought our breakfast, we cruised through customs, killed 2 hours in duty free...... then THE ANNOUNCEMENT - "We are now boarding flight NZ136 to Auckland, all passengers are now welcome to board. (pause) Would the following passengers please make themselves known to the ground staff prior to boarding...... Mr Miguel, and Mr Sam.... DING."
We got to the gate and the first words out of the dudes mouth were "unfortunately we've had to......." suddenly a dark sorrow filled our hearts. He continued "Upgrade you both to Premium Economy". There's nothing like a bit of undeserved favorable treatment to get the trip underway.

When we got to NZ we had a 2 hr transit so i decide to grab a cup of that black gold I love to sip on. Although this time it was not so lovely. First, when I ask for a strong latté, don't make it on skinny milk. Second, how's about you learn to pour a shot of coffee... I mean if you are planing on running a coffee shop as a business, maybe train your staff to grind, tamp and express a decent shot.

Any way, that's enough of that, I'm now sitting in The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf in Santa Monica and all is well, I have a warm hot choc curdling away in my belly and I'm just about to catch up on some Z's before our flight to the windy city tomorrow.

2nd Location: The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf; Santa Monica CA
2nd Coffee: Hot Chocolate
2nd Ambiance: 7 out of 10 (Bumped up by the free WiFi)
2nd Flavor: 3.5 out of 5

2nd overall rating: 7 out of 10