One Valium was not enough for me as we made our way through the Brisbane international airport with Kynan… Not that he was naughty or a pain, it was the realisation of the fact we were taking an 18mth old on his first long distance flight to a country we had not been. Seriously, what the hell were we thinking? We had a star spotting moment before we even left Australia. How’s this for a bit of embarrasment - Behind us in the line was Troy Cassar Daley - I said to Mark, hey that man behind us is familiar [View Full Entry]

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Our very first ride at Disneyland was the Finding Nemo submarine ride. We waited in line for 30 minutes in the drizzling rain for this ride. We were expecting it to be awesome, it was so lame that even poor Kynan fell asleep during it! (See the pics!!) Lucky this was the only ride that was not great - the rest we went on were awesome! Kynan in particular is a little thrill seeker - he went on everything from Dumbo, the teacups, Buzz Lightyear, Haunted mansion, Space Odyssey, Roger Rabbit and many more! The cheeky sausage loved them all. We [View Full Entry]

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Hi There, Well, I´ve been here about 2 months & have learned lots of Spanish but make TONS of mistakes everytime I open my mouth and have a very hard time understanding locals, kids, well basically a lot of people that don´t speak as clearly as my teachers and as slowly as other students. To help solve this problem I have been listening to talk radio in Spanish and trying to watch Spanish movies when I get the chance. Willie will be here in just a few days. He will spend 15 glorious days with me. We will begin our adventure [View Full Entry]

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In transit on our way back from Brisbane sitting at LAX. Adrienne's graduation went smoothly yesterday and she will be home for Christmas. [View Full Entry]

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We are spending Christmas this year in LA at Russ' house. We hope to fly standby on Sunday 12/20. If you didn't know, Dave is a Pilot with Continental Airlines and we get FREE flying. Free flying sound great, but there has to be empty seats and we get in line with the other employees and their families. My place in line is based on Dave's seniority date. It is very hard to use standby for the holidays, but we are taking our chances and we don't mind getting stuck in warm and mostly sunny LA. It might take us 2 [View Full Entry]

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After another few hectic days, we desperately needed a sleep-in. It turns out that LA had a large storm move through, so it had rained most of the night and was still raining all morning. So it was a good morning to take it easy. Once the rain eased late morning, we headed down to Santa Monica. We checked out the huge pier (the official end of Route 66), before walking along the beach toward Venice Beach. We encountered some weird and wacky stuff along this walk - the only shops open were tattoo parlours and pipe shops (not your musical [View Full Entry]

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We've got it all packed and we're off! [View Full Entry]

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Well the great North American adventure has started. We had our "Amazing Race" moment in the airport in Sydney with thetravel agent not informing us of the online visa we needed to complete in order to depart the country which found us running through the airport, bags flying behind so that we were not the last team to check in. Thankfully, it was a non-elimination round. We celebraed with a VB (dodgey man!) on Virgin Australia which impressived us with their service, mood lighting, entertainment and help yourself snack bar. Before we knew it we were touching down in LAX and [View Full Entry]

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Well it feels like coming home! We start recognizing bits! Banana Bungalows are rocking! At least we can drink here and are actively encouraged to! A little wine, a bit of TV, and an early night. We are up for breakfast and getting some directions to the airport so we can drop the car back. A pretty straight run and we are at the airport, which is where the fun begins! We find the budget car return place but cannot for the life of us figure out how to drop the car off, no one is around so we drive around [View Full Entry]

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Hey peeps, Hier ben ik dan weer om jullie over mij luizenleventje te vertellen Heb de afgelopen maand veel gerelaxt maar ook veel dingen gedaan en gezien. Na de midterms was er eigenlijk niet zoveel te doen omdat iedereen zijn energie aan het opsparen was voor de Halloween. Tijdens die 2 weekenden heb ik lekker in de zon gelegen overdag en in de avond film gekeken. Het voelde aan het begin heel raar aan omdat ik het gevoel had dat ik iets MOEST doen met mijn tijd. Na een gesprek met Santiago kwam ik tot de conclusie dat ik gewoon ervan [View Full Entry]

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