We got up and headed to the Milford for another sad goodbye… This time it was Lauren’s turn. We said goodbye, to which she replied, “I’ll see you before Christmas!!” Looking forward to it LV!! We left and headed down to the Ground Zero site. It’s a bit odd being there, remembering all the images from that day. The site itself it really big, you can only imagine how tall the towers themselves were. We basically did a lap of the site; you can’t really see much anymore, it’s just a building site now. We did see a mural on the [View Full Entry]

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Got up early and headed down to Battery Park with Caddie to meet up with Lauren, UK Mich, Steve and Nathan. Got our tickets for the ferry out to see the Statue of Liberty. It’s big… But not as big as I thought it would be. It was still pretty cool to see. Once we were on the Island, we lost the others, so Mich and I just took lots of photos ourselves, or found other Aussie tourists to take photos of us =) We headed back to the ferry and found all the others on there. Before taking us back [View Full Entry]

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We had a mini sleep in, then got ready and headed down to Times Square to meet up with Loz before we started our TV & Movie Sites Tour. Quite an interesting tour, as well as seeing the sites, we got a good overview of the entire city, as the sites were all over the place. Sites we did see included the Ghostbusters fire station, houses from I Am Legend and the Cosby Show, Ben’s Pizza from Men In Black II (we also had lunch here, yummy!), the Friends apartments, Law & Order Courts, Bowery Ballroom from Coyote Ugly and the [View Full Entry]

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Bags to coach for the final time - 7.45! It was a little surreal I guess, after 26 days on the tour it was all going to be over =( We stopped at the United States Naval Academy. We did a tour of the grounds. It was kind of interesting… But our tour guide was pretty boring… So it wasn’t that great. It’s extremely hard to get into this school, and it’s so strict once you’re in, with barely any outside contact etc. We then hopped back in the bus and headed into Philly!! We had a surprise stop at the [View Full Entry]

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9am off to the coach to get a ride into DC. Michelle, Lauren and I decided to make our first stop the Holocaust Museum. It’s been said it is the best museum in DC, and after going there I have to agree. We were there for around 2 hours, and it was so well set up, and if you were to read everything and look at every picture you could just about be there all day. It was really heartbreaking though as well… A very touching tribute to the victims of the Holocaust. Our next couple of stops were fairly rushed, [View Full Entry]

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Brekkie was set up in our own little quarters downstairs, then at 8am we headed out to the coach. We were taken to Arlington Cemetery, where we saw the changing of the guards at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, and JFK’s gravesite. He has his son on one side of him, Jackie O next to him, with a plot for his daughter next to her. Just around the corner is Robert Kennedy’s gravesite, and I’d imagine that around this area is where they’ve buried recently deceased Edward Kennedy. After this we saw the Iwo Jima Memorial (yet another war memorial). [View Full Entry]

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8.45am Bags to Coach! Stopped at a truck stop just past the Virginia border… Had a lunch stop in Richmond, the capital of Virginia. Cute little area where we stopped - it was here I found blocks of Cadbury’s chocolate!! Was super excited… Tried it later and it was horrible… pathetic excuse for Cadbury’s!! Got to Washington, we were staying just out a bit, in Cheverly at the HoJo!! Haha the Howard Johnson Hotel… Had buffet dinner at a little Italian restaurant next to the hotel, then hopped on the bus for an Illumination tour of Washington Dc. We sta [View Full Entry]

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7.45 Bags to Coach! We were in Charlston for around 3 hours - and were really excited about it because that's where the Notebook was filmed! Michelle and I had planned to see the house Noah fixed up.... then found out at the information centre that its ages away, and even if we got to it, its on a private plantation so wouldn't be able to see it anyway =( We did however see the theatre where Noah and Allie had their first date! We just walked around for the rest... Went into a shop called Urban Outfitters... had lunch... On [View Full Entry]

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Only had one stop on the way... Then we were in Savannah by lunchtime. Had a walk, some lunch at subway, saw where the bench was where Forrest Gump was filmed - though the bench isnt there anymore. But saw the steeple where the feather flys down from! We had a look down at the river.. Saw one crack of lightening then it was all of a sudden poaring with rain... Time to head back to get our room keys. Just relaxed in the rooms for a bit. Had the tv on, and every channel was interrupted by a flash flood [View Full Entry]

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8am bags to coach! Only a 45min drive to the Space Centre - So we were there for doors opening at 9am. We were there for about 5 hours - which sound like a really long time, but we still didn't get everything done! We saw where all the rockets are take off from, touched moon rock, saw heaps of different presentations, real rockets from different Apollo missions... where they do work for the International Space Station... The only thing we didn't get to do because we ran out of time, was a simulation of being in a ship going off [View Full Entry]

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