Still can't handle this jetlag, awake at 4am is not good! But the advantages are we can get out early, so off to Santa Monica Beach we went, via Paramount to take a photo, tried to get on the tour but all booked up. Traffic in LA is a law unto itself, scary beyond belief when it is actually moving, which thankfully isn't very often! Santa Monica is a very nice seaside town. So we did some shopping, walked along the pier, saw the end of Route 66 & had brunch, then decided we would walk to Venice Beach to see the muscle men working out - Bugger me ( I would have sworn a lot more but my Mum is reading this blog) Hubby says' It is only a little way up the beach, we ... read more

EXCITED !! Hell yes Friday afternoon & it is nearly time, have had a really busy week, (feeling sorry for Hubby, really busy in work & being dragged out, see next paragraph lol) so no surprise the time has flown by, and I still haven't finished the packing, alright I don't actually do the packing, as Mr Perfect won't let me !! But all this preperation & still not enough hours in the day, haven't had time to visit family yet, but friends are coming tonight, (better not involve any drinking after visitors last weekend, but I won't go in to that !!) Had surprise visitors turn up for their anniversary in the week, so it was only polite to show them the joys of 'The Barbican' a beautiful part of Plymouth with some wonderful history ... read more

How does he do it? Casually sat eating breakfast this morning (Sunday 5th Aug), feeling remarkably good considering the amount of alcohol we managed to consume last night, whilst watching Team GB win lots of gold medals :-) ... sorry I digress, Hubby asked "Where are the driving licences? " Easy answer to that I say, 'in the holiday pack' with passports, tickets & every other piece of paperwork we will need in 13 days time, feeling quite smug, off I go to look aaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh - His is there, but no sight of mine !! No worries I know where it will be, so off I go to look in the folder where everything paper like is kept in our house, (or should be) nope not there, got to be with car paperwork then, nope! ok ... read more

Three week road trip through California, Nevada & Arizona, no worries!!! Yeah right, knowing how much 'hubby' likes to research, plan & schedule things, this was never going to be an easy task, so thought that 2 years should have been enough time, but no, with only 16 days to go, he is happily informing me that he has found a nice little 'off licence' less than quarter of a mile from our B&B in Los Angeles - "Can never be too prepared" he says - really!! So I thought I would start a blog today, Thursday 2nd August 2012, to help 'vent my frustrations' otherwise he will get it both barrels & we may not get to see our 11th anniversary :-)... read more