The children using our bed as a trampoline- guess who started it??!!

Start spreading the news........ we're leaving today

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July 6th 2008
Driving into New York in the morning rush hour was a thing you have to see to believe, people using their horns as much as their brakes and as for red lights they may as well not be there. Anyway we managed to negotiate the traffic and with carefully planned directions thanks to google maps the night before we found our hotel no problem, the fact it was about 45 stories high also helped! We mana ... read more

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Britain's American colonies broke with the mother country in 1776 and were recognized as the new nation of the United States of America following the Treaty of Paris in 1783. During the 19th and 20th centuries, 37 new states were added to the origina... ... read more