Temperature: 27 degrees, sunny then rain Today was abit of a struggle again to get up. With the combination of very little sleep over the last week and a fair amount of alcohol last night I, and a few others were in a bad way. We were up at 7:50am though as showers needed to be had and so did breakfast before we had to be on the bus at 8:30am to go out for our group photo. I managed to have my first taste of vegemite since I've been here, on a bagel of all things. It wasn't bad but it wasn't the goodness of the plain white unsweetened toast that can be found at home. We got on the bus and made our way to a brilliant spot to have our group photo taken, ... read more

We had a tour booked today for 9:30am, we were running a little late but made it in time. It was a neighbourhoods tour, so we were to visit the different neigbourhoods of NYC, including chinatown, little italy, the upper east and upper west sides and harlam. Some of it i was able to sleep though thank goodness as i had seen it. The tour was very imformative, the only downside was that we were the minority in the english speaking to the french so we did feel a little robbed on the information, but we got to see some nice things that we most likely wouldn't have normally seen. We went inside the cathedral church of st john the divine. we saw the neighbourhoods then ended up at the world trade centre site. From there ... read more

Temp: 29 degrees We got up before 9:30am because they have a free breakfast on here the the hotel. We had showers and made our way on the subway to Battery park to catch the Ferry out to the Statue of Liberty. It was already quite warm by this time, especially on the train. Luckily we had prebooked midday tickets as the line was massive, it went in loops through battery park. We got on and over to the island in no time. Went up to thepedistal and took lots of photos, climbed the 156odd steps up there but got some really good shots. When we got back to Battery Park we caught subway to Wall St, got a few photos there, found the big bull, took some funny pics then got back on the subway ... read more

Today started badly, we went to sleep after 4am and i woke at 6:30am with the worst sickness in my stomach again. I had to get up 3 times over the next 2 hours to be sick, not nice. Too many drinks and lack of sleep combined with a dodgy stomach was never a good idea. After we rang and asked the front desk for a later checkout we had to clean the apartment, this was not fun when i was feeling as sick as i was but we ended up getting it done and checked out by 1pm. We left out bags at the hotel and got in the hire car and drove down to Anaheim so Mary and Ron could see Disneyland and get their picture out the front. We had a lovely lunch ... read more

Temp: 23 (in LA) So, the first blog of my new adventure. Another drama filled start! Ron was due to pick me up at 7am so we we're at the airport by 9am for check-in for our midday flight. I woke at 1:30am feeling really sick. I had a constant feeling of needing to throw up with my head just about on fire. i took some zavance hoping to drop my temperature but no luck. At 3:30am i woke the parentals to see if there was anything they could suggest only to be told that we were going down to the hospital to see what was going on. We went to Dandenong Valley Private Hospital Emergency instead of Dandenong Hospital because I'd probably still be sitting in there with the drunkos. The doctor checked me out ... read more