OK...finally here it is...my final thoughts on the main places we visited in a nutshell.... (it's hard to summarise 7 weeks of fun!!!) New York City - We LOVED NYC and would totally go back to live there for a few months given the opportunity - failing that we def wanna get back there at some stage as we just didnt have enough time to do everything we wanted. Connecticut & New Haven - Wow, the whole of New England is just beeeeautiful country and again, probably a place where we could spend more time driving around. Of course...we were [View Full Entry]

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Well yep...we made it back home BOOOO. And as I suspected...being on holidays is WAY more fun than being at home and living reality. Of course the fact that our house was broken in to the very morning we arrived back home cemented those thoughts. So yeh, the flights were all ok and we hit home around lunch time on Thursday. As best we can gather from speaking to neighbours and mum and the gardner, it looks like some punks broke in to our place between 8am and 10:45am. They smashed the back sliding door and upended most of the drawers [View Full Entry]

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Days 43 & 44 – Monday & Tuesday – Los Angeles, Califonia *sob* it's our last day!!! So yesterday we all met for our last breakfast as the six of us - the last supper hehehe. Jen & John who we'd spent the last 6 weeks with, have headed back up to San Fran and then make their way over to Chicago before flying back home to England after there year long honeymoon. It's been very weird ever since hanging out and them not being around and we miss them heaps (awwww!). The plan for Monday was for Kate, Toni, Dean [View Full Entry]

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Day 42 – Sunday – Los Angeles, California Well today we saw how the other half live!!! We took two tours. One was a trolley tour which took us past Paramount Studios, the Capital Records building, and all the usual. The second tour was of the movie star homes through Beverly Hills, Bel Air and of course down Sunset & Rodeo Drive. Some of the homes there are just AMAZING. And every car we saw was a Merc, BMW or Lexus! I think dinner that night was yummmmy California Pizza Company. (Ok my brain is hurting and it's all a [View Full Entry]

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Days 40 & 41 – Friday & Saturday – Los Angeles, California Oh man, I cant believe we're now in our last city *sob* Well we left San Simeon Friday morning and made our way down to Los Angeles. I have heard about the LA traffic but WOW - it was so thick and it was like midday on a Friday...go figure. We went straight to Universal Studios and had a ball taking in the rides and shows. I had been many many years ago, so alot of the shows are similar, just rebadged (ie Miami Vice was now Waterworld) [View Full Entry]

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Day 39 – Thursday – San Simeon, California Another different and interesting day for us today. We headed out of San Francisco this morning (via the crookest street!!!) to Hearst Castle. Have to admin NOT my favorite drive at all and it ended up taking us a good hour or two longer than we had expected to get to the Castle (in time for our booked tour). Not to mention, we had to drive through army land to get to the coast (an experience in itself, we even saw a tank!!!) and gawwwd, we traversed the longest and windiest road [View Full Entry]

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Day 38 – Wednesday – San Francisco, California This was a funnnnn day. We headed to the Exploratorium in the morning...which is like a kid's science hands on museum (Perth people think Scitech) it was SUPER fun! We ran around trying out all the experiments and having fun. When we arrived back to the hotel, us girls decided it was high time we got some pampering so all had pedicures and manicures in massage chairs. Mmmmm mmm mmmm! Following our pampering we had the most delish lunch - seriously I think it's one of the best meals i've had in [View Full Entry]

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Day 37 – Tuesday – San Francisco, California Well today it was FREEEZING and the wind was howling...not my type of weather at all...but we had fun anyways! We decided to take a tour to allow us to take in more of the sights here, so boarded our motorized cable car for 2 hours! What do you know...the Golden Gate Bridge really WAS there (ie no fog today!). We had a great chance to see it up close from both sides as well as driving across it (which was FREEZING). Thankfully we had blankets on the tram available for our [View Full Entry]

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Day 36 – Monday – San Francisco, California Well today we got out first real taste of San Francisco and we lurrrved it! We sussed out the local busses (world renowned for having some of the rudest drivers ever!!!) and made our way down to the Pier Area. We had a really nice wander around Pier 39 - its is a GREAT area (Perth people...think Hillaries/Sorrento type area). San Fran is pretty cool weather wise at the moment (16 today, 13 tomorrow max) but the sun was shining so it was a great morning. We checked out a bunch of [View Full Entry]

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Day 34 – Saturday – Mariposa, California Well today we took a meandering drive through Yosemite National Park...it was bee-ewww-tiful (and BIG!). Once again, it was striking how different all the national parks here are and Yosemite was nothing like the others we had been through. First of all there was a HEAP of snow, huge mountains (the Sierra Nevada range), lots of waterfalls (some of the largest in the US), meadows, bigggg rocks (Half Dome and El Capitan are two of the more famous ones - El Capitan is apparently the largest basalt monlith in the world), big trees [View Full Entry]

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