DAY 13/240 - Thursday, July 26, 2007 Today, I am ashamed to say, we did absolutely nothing. I woke up around 1:30pm to find out the others had spent the whole morning drinking coffee in the coffee house adjoining our hotel (Rosies - they conveniently used me as an excuse for not doing anything). They had only just recently retired to the rooms for lunch, where we all decided to stay for the duration of the afternoon. I wend down to Rosies around 3 for a beer and a steak sandwich, and then went back to my room to find the others hadn't moved. In their defence the long days makes it appear to be much earlier than it actually is. I know i fell into the trap of thinking i could postpone activity and sit ... read more

Well today was the morning after, and there were a lot of sore heads and red eyes as a large number of the wedding party assembled for brunch, in the hotel bar\restaurant. I missed breakfast, but that turned out to be a fantastic investment when I saw what was on offer for brunch. I would have almost advised those too sick to eat anything, not to have drunk so much, so they wouldn't have to forgoe such a feast. After brunch my brawn was enlisted to carry decorations from the reception hall, to cars going back to Tilsonburg. You can imagine how much help I was as the fouth member of a team of Australia Army guys. The bride's parents were hosting a 'post wedding bbq\party' a their house in Tilsonburg, so that's where everyone headed, ... read more

DAY 7/240 - Friday, July 20, 2007 Today we left the tour group we were with, a day early and went from washington to Woodstock for the wedding tomorrow. However we got up much much earlier than we needed to and ended up having to wait 3 hours for the flight (in fairness to whoever decided the time to leave, we didn't really know how long it was going to take to get to the airport). So i think that the fact that we had to wait for so long made us all a little frustrated, but i spent the wait working on a spreadsheet that would be used to judge the winner of the Frodo Photo competition. Took me those 3 hours, the one hour plane flight, the 90 min hire car ride (with michelle ... read more

DAY 5/240 - Wednesday, July 18, 2007 Today we travelled from corning to Washington D.C via Gettysburg, a town in Pennsylvania, the scene of a major battle in the American civil war. I've got to admit, whilst i respect and appreciate the sacrifice our soldiers made, wars depress me, so i don't like to delve too much into the intricacies of it all - especially American civil wars. However i can definately see why poeple who were more into this sort of thing would find Gettysburg very interesting. We went the museum which was very well done. There was heaps of artifacts like weapons and bags and furniture with bullet holes in it, which was all found in the surrounding area. Apparently the battle of Gettysburg, despite only lasting 3 days had the most number of ... read more

DAY 1/240 - Saturday, July 14, 2007 The morning of our departure produced many frustrating, or looked at another way, bad signs, which didn't really assist my anxiety about flying. Take off got delayed in brisbane by over an hour (sitting on the tarmac) due to a problem with some spilt hydraulic fluid from the mobile conveyor belt thing (the one that puts the bags onto the plane). However, aside from my neck pain, the strange lady beside me, and the fact that my ipod docking station wasn't working, the flight wasn't the death of me. Annoyingly, the delay meant we missed our short turnaround flight from LA to NY. The flight they put us on was with American airlines (instead of QANTAS), who managed to lose Meathead's luggage. Very angry Meathead. Anyway we eventually got ... read more