6 weeks holiday in numbers

The summer holiday in numbers:

6 weeks of school holiday
5 loads of washing done post holiday - omg how long did we go for!!
4 chillies that are currently growing on our plants - come on guys, you can do it!!
3 countries visited - Majorca Spain, USA, Mexico
2 Christmas presents made - nuff said for now, don't want to give the game away!
1 house sold - yay!!

Vacation in numbers

So after spending some time in the grand old US of A there are some things we did and didn't do that us Brits consider typically American:

# of:

Starbucks drunk: 0
Hot Dogs eaten: 1
Burgers eaten: a couple
Use of the term 'Awesome': countless
Taxis taken: 5ish
Coffees drunk: too many to count - bottomless cups!!!

Number of meals finished: 0

Football matches seen - 49ers: 1

I wonder what else we Brits consider American?

Number of times they got my name wrong - 3 Leah, Lana, Liam?? What is that about!!!

Living on the Ledge

Last day - boooo - but we have a jammed packed schedule to make the most of it!

So we are off on our boat tour along the river then out onto Lake Michigan. I love a boat trip and this one was exceptional. You get a great view of the buildings from the river from the one voted as the ugliest to Trump's new tower, then onto the lake to get a great view of the whole skyline. And on such a lovely day the city skyscape was in all its glory. Amazeballs.

Once we disembarked the boat we headed towards the Sears Tower - now called the Willis Tower via Grant Park to see the bean and the concert hall. A great open space and the public art works are fab - fully interactive from creating weird and wonderful reflections in the bean to splashing in the water created by the fountains. The concert hall is in all its splendour, another great Gehry piece of architecture. You don't feel like your in a city here - with the lake on one side and all the openness of the park - though you can see the buildings surrounding it obviously!

Our final stop before collecting our cases and heading to the airport is the Willis Tower. Last time I was here was 2007 when it was still the Sears Tower and had no ledge - the completely see through boxes that jut out of the main structure of the building. Up we went - great views obviously all around then into the glass box we went! I went for backing myself into it - Daniel was on his hands and knees looking through the floor! But we did it - we lived life on the ledge!

So our time in Chicago and the USA altogether has come to an end. It's a shame but you never like going home from a holiday - though you have to earn the pennies to pay for them! We've had an amazing time - which we knew we would do. Homeward bound......

Amazing Architecture

Chicago looks just as amazing in the day as night. The buildings are stunning so we took a walk to explore some. Daniel captured some fab photos of them mixed with the nature in the city also. We found our way to Navy Pier which is very patriotic with all the flags flying at the end of the pier.

We took a walk by the river and found an architecture boat tour which we are going to take tomorrow and also went along their main shopping street too - the Magnificent Mile. Everything is so easy to do here and easy to find. It's a very friendly city to get around. We stopped for lunch at a sports cafe which was great.

We mainly explored on foot today, our last day is tomorrow but as we have a night flight we still have all day to do stuff.

Tonight - wine tasting then off to RPM.

We didn't know what to expect for the wine tasting after all it is free so how good can it be? Well I wouldn't call it a wine tasting as such as you didn't really discuss or got told about the wine, it was more - here are loads of drinks (wine, beer, cocktails) drink as much as you like and eat nibbles!! Great!!!

RPM was a great restaurant, really busy for a Tuesday - I mean rammed! The food was fab especially the stuffed courgette flowers. We didn't see anyone famous but it didn't matter as the food was great and not over priced either. A great end to a great day - last one tomorrow though :(

Chicago Calling

Woohoo we're here and our hotel is in a fab location right in the loop - easy to walk to loads of places from here, it also has a free wine tasting every night with canopies - no joke! We'll be checking that out tomorrow.

As we arrived quite late we headed straight out for tea and found an amazing Italian bar/restaurant and gorged on loads of food! We took a walk round to catch our bearings and suss out the situ for tomorrow.

The city looks fab at night - all the sky scrapers lit up. We saw the marina city buildings in their glory and the river looks magical with the twinkling lights reflecting in the water.

If I was going to live anywhere in the US it would be here. It just has a great feeling about the place.

We headed back to the hotel and looked up where we could go for our final night - quids in we got a table at RPM - Giuliana and Bill's restaurant. Excited to try it out!!!

Following in Palin's Footsteps!

Today is a very exciting day - after years of watching Michael Palin and using his clips in lessons we are following in his footsteps and are crossing the border into Tijuana, Mexico. I'm very excited - Daniel however not so much - more scared lol.

It's actually very simple to do - straight tram down to the end of the tram line at San Ysidro then we're there!! We popped into a shop by the tram stop to get a drink and some change for the tram and as we're leaving the tram was already there so we hopped on thinking we can buy a ticket on board, however we reached our stop and no one had been round. Technically we bunked our way to Mexico!

10 minutes and we're across the border - no passport check, nothing. We walked past a couple of guards with big guns and we were in!! I have the feeling it won't be like that coming back!

We walked across the bridge into central Tijuana passing some sights on the way. We saw several people hanging by the river and several donkeys painted as zebras!

There was some kind of celebration going on and the pedestrianised part was decorated with some great bunting.

We picked, carefully, somewhere to eat and ordered some traditional fair - fajitas and margaritas! Wasn't great going to the loo though - a cockroach ran past my feet and I had to use the kitchen sink to wash my hands! Hmmmmmm. Daniel was paranoid he was going to get food poisoning but he was fine!!

Knowing it would take forever to cross back we made our way back to the border, taking some pictures for lessons on the way. We didn't get anywhere near the border when we reached the queue for it!

A few hours later, several passport checks and some questions answered and we were back in America! Definitely an experience and one I can talk about from personal experience now rather than just using film. Though Michael Palin will still feature in those lessons!!

As it's our last night in San Diego we thought we'd go back to the sushi place we found on our first night. Still great food and still happy hour!

Tomorrow we're off to our final city - Chicago. I love Chicago, it's a great city and I'm very excited going with Daniel. It's a shame we're not there longer than we are as there is so much to do. So signing off from California - mid-west America here we come!!

Lost in the zoo!!

Getting to the zoo isn't too difficult - a short bus ride away and we are there - and looks like we will be here for a while as it's massive! So big in fact it has a bus to take you around!

What can you say about this zoo other than it has possibly every animal that exists in it - it's baking hot here but still has a polar zone with my favs - the polar bear. Unlike Barcelona it has no one big draw like the albino gorilla (that is no longer with us!) but it is hands down probably the best zoo we've been too, we were there so long they were practically throwing us out!

We've been in San Diego 2 days now and not really seen much of the city itself mainly due to the fact they have so much else to offer.

Tonight we're off out in the Gas Lamp Quarter to get some tea - another trendy locale for the #richkids! Nothing wrong with joining them whilst we're here!!

Soaked by Shamu!!

We knew we wanted to go to Seaworld months before going on holiday - and today was the day! Being savvy travellers we booked on line to save cash - $15 each and got an e ticket! Public transport is good here and easy to figure out so two buses later we were there!

Luckily it's a hot day as first ride in and we are already wet yet not as wet as we are going to get!

Seaworld has so many shows but none as big as Shamu. We took our seats in the splash zone thinking we would get a little wet - oh no absolutely drenched - to the extent that the camera died! Shamu and pals were great showing off, they are massive!

We learnt from our mistakes and on the dolphin show sat a little further back! The show was amazing - loads of dolphins - people dressed as birds diving and doing acrobatics and macaws flying around - definitely spectacular - much more of a show than Shamu but dolphins can do a little more than a giant killer whale!

So after a long day and buying a Shamu in the gift shop we headed back - to dry out the camera!!

That evening we headed up to the roof bar of the hotel - again trendy! Beds to lounge on and a massive fire pit. Definitely a bar for the local #richkids! Actually at the very same time as we were here so was Brody from the Hills! We didnt' see him though!

San Diego is a great place but we have so much planned, next stop - the zoo!! Maybe we'll see Marcel from Friends!!

Time to move on

Our time in LA-la Land has come to an end - we didn't see many celebs but we definitely saw allot of plastic La-La's!

It makes a change not going to the airport but this time going to the train station. We are Amtraking our way to San Diego. Union Station is nice - old fashioned with massive wooden and leather chairs to wait on - no wonder there are a few homeless in here. What is odd is how quiet it is - at this time of day, 11.30ish at St Pancras the station would be rammed. I guess in a city that has more cars than people who uses the train!

It was simples! Collected our tickets, got a subway then boarded the double decker train. Smooth riding all the way to San Diego. We didn't see much from the train, residential then countryside mainly. We did see Anaheim though no sign of Disneyland. We exited at Santa Fe aka San Diego. Where the station was was so close to our hotel really we walked through the Gaslamp Quarter to F Street to our hotel - Andaz. Doesn't look like much from the outside but it appears in our guide book twice for best club with a view and pool. We were greeted with complimentary drinks and went to our room where we found no end of complimentary items, chips, cereal bar, weird banana chocolate thing and a whole list of items we could ask for if we'd forgotten or run out of. We could get used to this! Not the biggest room but a room for trendy guests. Glass wall separating the sink area to the bedroom.

We know we have a busy time here in San Diego what with Sea World, the zoo and Mexico for tonight we went to a sushi place - Hive. It was great, the sushi was yum and to top it off some dishes were on happy hour!

Happy days!

Venturing to Venice

Today was our relaxing day at the beach - well it was meant to be our relaxing day at the beach! As our tour bus ticket didn't expire til 10.41am - yes I know accurate, we thought we'd take the first bus at 10.15am down to Santa Monica. Now the buses never run to schedule due to all the traffic so we were pushing it a little bit! It did not arrive at 10.15! What did drive past us was a police escort with a car on a trailer filming a moving car scene - cool. Thankfully our bus did turn up at 10.35 - just in the nick of time!

Our first stop today was Santa Monica Pier - where there was more filming! This time we had not only no idea who it was but also what he was saying - it was Mexican, but he did look like he was doing a link for a TV show. The pier was good, it was sunny, we stopped for a hot dog (#2 of the holiday) then took a walk along the beach towards Venice Boardwalk. it's further than you think! This is why our day wasn't as relaxing as it should have been!

At this point the weather was great, we took in the street vendors, quirky shops and performers and the odd crazy then grabbed a milkshake at Muscle Beach and watched some 3 on 3 basketball action. It did get a little heated - probably playing for money or if being cynical or believing the films drugs or women lol. There weren't many muscles on Muscle Beach, probably because it's the middle of the day on a Wednesday, early morning or a weekend would probably be busier. People were playing to pose with the muscles that were there. Sorry I shouldn't call them muscles - they are people after all. That was a little weird.

We headed back to Santa Monica - stopping on the way to buy some art from a local artist - he was cool, had a book showing his work exhibited in many countries, never been to the UK yet though.

This is where we were a little naughty as our bus tour tickets had now expired but in a taxi it would be quite expensive, if we had to get a taxi we would but we thought we'd try to get on the tour bus first. It worked!! They didn't even check our ticket! We plugged our earphones in to make it look like our first time doing this part of the tour! Heehee. We used our journey to figure out where to go for tea for our last night in LA as we didn't want to go back to Westfield. #we settled for the best steak house in Beverly Hills - Mastro's.  We managed to book a table online - good job as when we got there it was heaving! The steak was amazing - the best steak ever (well it should be at that price) but truly it was the best steak I've ever had. Big claim. Cooked perfectly. Also had great service - you can see why it's a favourite of the Beckhams and Kardashians - oh yes we googled who had been there once we got back! We even got driven back to the hotel by their private car - we asked for a taxi, got escorted to a sleek black car and driven home! It was a great way to end our time here.

Chicken Headed Bimbo's and LARPs!

After touring LA yesterday we thought today we'd actually visit some of the attractions LA has to offer so first stop La Brea Tar Pits. We all know how disappointed I was the last time I was here, not being able to visit the Tar Pits - well this time we made it! We got off the bus outside to be greeted by a lady with two disabled people shouting down her phone that she had told the chicken headed bimbo that she would need help today and to be fair to her there was no way she could push both wheelchairs alone. It was definitely the best insult I'd heard for a while!

We headed into La Brea Park and the the pits - it smelt like workmen were resurfacing a road! Not only can you see the pits outside, the pit they were currently working on they also have the Page museum too. In here they have all the bones of animals discovered in the pits - giant land sloths, sabre toothed tigers, woolly mammoths, they were massive - it was awesome, the makers of Ice Age are genius to think of making something like this into a film. I'm glad we finally made it there - it was totally worth it.

We left the tar pits and walked through the park to LACMA. The first piece of art we saw before even getting to the door was this suspended rock above a walkway - it was huge, you wouldn't want that dropping on you - you'd end up looking like a cartoon character with arms and legs sticking out of a rock that splattered you into the ground. We got to the door to find out it was free Tuesday! Awesome, saving bucks on holiday - 30 of them - is great, pennies, sorry cents, to be spent on other things. LACMA is massive, I think it was 7 buildings so there was no way we could see it all but we did our best. We saw Japanese, European, American, Pacific art work and Metropolis II, though as it was a free day it wasn't running. It was a very cultural morning!

We left for the bus only to see the same woman as earlier still waiting. I guess the chicken headed bimbo still hasn't sorted her problem!

Morning = Culture            Afternoon = Celebrities

We headed back to Hollywood for a bite to eat and then a celebrities home tour! We took a walk up and down Hollywood Boulevard (not in the same vein as Julia Roberts!) to select the best tour we could for the best price and ended up taking a starline quality tour but for half the price - oh yeah and it turns out the guy's wife is from Doncaster! This was great, in a roofless slightly smaller minibus whizzing around the winding roads, first stop Mulholland Drive - a great view over Hollywood Bowl, downtown and the Hollywood sign. Then up into the hills, round Bel Air, Beverly Hills and Rodeo Drive again. I love gossip so this is the best tour for me! We saw Beckenham Palace and Tom Cruise's land next door, I say land as he owns most of the hill and has a spacecraft like gate. We also saw Jackie Chan's place, Eddie Murphy, Marilyn Monroe, Steven Spielberg, Ice and Coco, Dr Phil, The Osbournes old house, Michale Jackson's house where he died and the Playboy Mansion as well as a block of condos where Cher and Matthew Perry owns whole floors. We saw where Wynona Ryder stole all that stuff and where Lindsay Lohan crashed her car drunk. It was v cool - also v touristy but who cares! Our guide told us about LARPs as we went round. Loads of awesome houses not owned by anyone famous - owned by LARPs = Lucky Arse Rich Person - I want to be a LARP! It makes you see how the other half live...and makes you wish you live like them!

Pink Taco was our choice for tea tonight - back to the Westfield - it's been a tiring day! The brisket tacos were however amazeballs.

What's Your Dream? (Again)

A car is vital in LA if you want to get anywhere soon, if not it takes forever! Our plan for today was to get the hop on hop off bus - which handily stops outside the hotel, we can suss out the locations and decide where we want to visit as we're never going to be able to do it all - as the guy on the plane said, you won't see everything in 4 months let alone 4 days!

We eventually got the bus, it was half and hour late and headed on the yellow line to Santa Monica. There's not much between us and Santa Monica so the guide bus played the Beach Boys down our earphones! We didn't get off at Santa Monica today, we decided to come back another day and continue on the yellow line to Beverly Hills.

We alighted here and took a stroll round Rodeo Drive, on route we saw Stan Lee! Now I obviously didn't recognise him but Daniel insisted it was him driving round a corner in a Porche. We were then on a celebrity hunt. Needless to say we didn't see anyone else - well anyone we knew. We did see an awesome car outside of Bijan - which we later found out was the most expensive men's clothes store in he world - only accessible via appointment! The car was cool, I couldn't tell you what it was but Daniel could - a Bugatti Veyron. We didn't buy anything on Rodeo - well except lunch and that was even on the corner of another street, don't think we could afford Rodeo prices!

After lunch we boarded the red route to Hollywood. It is a completely different world in Hollywood and unlike what you expect the area to be like. It is not glamorous at all, filled with souvenir shops, rammed with tourists and littered with all kinds of people dressed as different famous film characters. We got accosted by Scream and posed for a photo. We wandered around a little, took in some stars then got the red route round the rest of the tour seeing landmarks like the hotel where Julia Roberts stayed in Pretty Woman - not the Wilshire with Richard Gere - we had already seen that but her and Kits place - apparently it is still a bit of a dive like in the film! I know I have used this title before - but it is the quote that comes to mind every time I think of here. What would it have been like without Pretty Woman in the 80s!?! We also saw the Whisky A Go Go - which the Bourbon Rooms from Rock of Ages is based on and then headed back to the hotel. When I say headed back we didn't actually arrive til a couple of hours later. Not having a car means getting anywhere takes forever!

We stopped in the hotel for tea tonight as we were knackered from all the travelling!! Why are portions so large!!?!!

Off to LA-LA Land!

Today we move on - had a great time here in SF but won't miss the weather! Having mow sussed out the public transport system in SF we easily get ourselves to the airport and all checked in with plenty of time to grab lunch over looking the planes.

The flight was not very eventful except the very smelly man sitting next to me who thought he'd tell us all about LA. Nice of him though he stank!!

Getting off the plane and waiting for our bags we instantly noticed the heat! Oh yeah - it was red hot!!

When in LA the easiest way to get around = taxi. The place is a concrete jungle of vast expanse and public transport would have been a nightmare! Taxi is easy - door to door. And when arriving at our hotel they were doors manned by attendants that you don't even need to open them yourself! Needless to say our hotel was by our standards posh! Located on Avenue of the Stars, next to the old Fox Studios, down the road from Century City and Westfield.

We didn't do a great deal once we arrived - had tea at Rock Sugar which was awesome, then headed 'home' so we were fresh and ready for what LA had to throw at us!

Night time on Alcatraz! Scary!!

We are very excited today - it's our night time tour of Alcatraz - ooooooo scary! Before then we have a lot to take in. Yesterday we decided to get a hop on hop off bus ticket to go to the Golden Gate Bridge - oh my days it was windy - so windy my hair hurt and Daniel thought his glasses would whip off his face! It was a little foggy but cleared up on route. It was great, the bus took us over the bridge and back again - don't know about cycling it in that wind though.

We thought on the way back we would get off at the Palace of Fine Arts built for the Expo that SF hosted. It was very fancy and old, very much like British venues. After some photo snaps we headed back to the bus...and waited...and waited...and the bus...never turned up! What! Where was it? The guy said one would be along - he lied!! We ended up getting the Muni bus to Fort Mason which was a pleasant surprise. A nice walk through the park where we witnessed a bicycle crash of two French tourists - a little closer to the edge and they would have been goners!

We made it back to the Wharf and had some more fish - well it is Fisherman's Wharf so really we should! This time sole and jumbo shrimp. This fuelled us enough for shopping!!

We thought this would be a good evening to visit China town - it was virtually deserted. Felt very different to London which is manic even first thing in the morning. We did manage to find an awesome restaurant and had a delicious meal. It even had the Peking duck similar to China. I was very impressed. We just wondered why it was so dead - were American's scared of it after dark? It was Friday night, it should have been heaving!

Saturday itself was dedicated to one thing and one thing only - Alcatraz - however...it wasn't til 6pm so how to fill our day, hmmm. Well we decided to visit the park. On route we saw picturesque landscapes like the Painted Ladies. The park itself was huge - so much so we only saw a tiny part of it! They had a music festival like Leeds/Reading in one part. We headed towards the Academy of Sciences which was cool - inside they had a small scale rainforest to walk through, not great in the canopy with birds and butterflies flying round your head! They also had a planetarium with a good earthquake show with some great facts, though hard to remember now - should have took notes! There was also an aquarium - loads in one place. It is a research place which you can see bits of with a museum added on.

The one thing we haven't yet tried is the dungeness crab so after we headed to a crab house for an early tea before boarding for Alcatraz. Now although its a night tour it's not actually dark at 6pm so at the minute we are just like all the day visitors...things soon change. It's quieter, there are more sections of the prison open and you have a guided tour up to the cell block. You still have the audio tour but after there are talks by rangers and a demonstration of the cell doors opening and closing. As the sun went down it became spooky. There were times where there were only us on a certain cell block. And the hospital, well that was probably the scariest place, just like in the Alcatraz programme - which I still think they shouldn't have cancelled - deserted, dark, only lit by one solitary lantern. There was one room in complete darkness, with a tiny opening to look through - you couldn't see anything and were too scared to stick our heads in so we put the camera through with the flash on - it was a bathroom - not in use and still like it was back in the day. We also got to go round the kitchen and had a talk by the ranger on the library about one of the prisoners, his friend later in life. A little personal insight. The cell doors demonstration was loud and echoed round the empty prison. I say empty, tomorrow is their anniversary so former guards, kids of guards and prisoners are staying in the prison tonight - one prisoner in his former cell! Good luck to those!

We get to leave on the last boat with the rangers in the pitch black. The night tour was definitely not to be missed and felt much more reminiscent of the true Alcatraz. The only grievance is we didn't have time for the shop before the shut it - oh well!

This nicely rounds off our trip to SF - next stop LA!

All about the crazies!!

So we have had a full day here now, took in some sights at Union Square and Fisherman's Wharf and we have decided that there are a hell of a lot of crazies around here. Not necessarily drunk - more mental! Literally on every corner either begging, spinning some yarn or trying to entertain in some way to get money out of passerby's - at least they are trying to do something. I've said before about the one that jump out from behind a bush to scare people!

Lets have a little update of where we are at: our hotel is very pleasant, fancy lobby with massive chandeliers, a Starbucks which on paper sounds a great idea but in reality the line is so long you can't be bothered with it!

When we sleepily returned from our Cheesecake meal we were greeted by security (well what looked like a security guard) offering to take us up to the cityscape which no one is allowed up to unless authorised. Us, probably being typically British, thought he was luring us up there to kill us! (Dramatic I know but we were very tired!!) You can see the headline now - 'British tourists found dead in sky deck of hotel' and you can hear what readers would be saying - 'what were they thinking, going with a stranger alone up to a floor with only one exit'!! - so needless to say we didn't go - might have been a mistake but we were knackered anyway and be doing with the OTT American enthusiasm.

With a bit more umph the next day we headed down to the sea front on the cable car taking in Lombard Street on the way. A quiet residential neighbourhood brought to mayhem by a crooked street, crazy but you have to visit. Needless to say you wouldn't want to live there dodging all the tourists as you pull out your drive!

As we woke so early (5am) due to our out of sync body clock we were starving by 11am so we headed to the famous sourdough bread bakery - Boudin - clam chowder all the way! At this time the sun decided to appear which was a blessing as it was too cold for my liking! We headed down the piers and pottered about on the sea front and eventually stumbled upon The America's Cup which SF is hosting in the bay. As nothing was happening you could get in free so we headed to the sports bar for a much needed drink as by now we were getting toasty. It was cool even though we know nothing about sailing. It was a good idea to chillax here as we had a busy night planned at the 49ers. So rejuvenated we headed for a quick pit stop at the hotel then a T Metro ride to Candlestick Park.

This is the last season here so going to the first preseason game should be cool. I say it should be cool, actually it was freezing and they lost but the atmosphere was good and I had a hot dog! Keep wanting to sing duh duh duh duh (makes no sense in writing!) but that doesn't get sung at the football, instead it's ahh-oooo - v. odd! And de-fence but weirdly not o-fence. It was very lively with music played throughout - good the dance to warm up! It was great to go.

And now we've reached Friday here and now, ready for another day of exploring. We're gradually getting  on Californian time - only woke at 7am today!

Update...

Boy are we tired! Trying to get straight on SF time was hard but we did it! After enjoying a lovely Cheesecake Factory dinner and shared some cookie dough cheesecake we were tucked up in bed by 9pm watching Shark Week!

Cheesecake demolished!!

What's the obsession with Toblerone?

Two films down and still plenty of time left on this flight. Though it's not been too bad so far. Iron Man 3 wasn't all that though I did miss most of the explanation of the plot due to too much coffee and an emergency toilet visit. The end of 42 was good though on these flights you can't select when to start it so I missed the beginning due to a drama with my lunch tray. The lasagne was OK - well for plane food! We have been travelling for practically a day now what with the train to London, a very squished tube ride to Heathrow and now. Never a fan of travelling in someones armpit on the tube!

As we travel over the beginning of Canada from looking at the map I begin pondering about airports. Mainly - what is the obsession with Toblerone? Everywhere we went there were piles of the chocolate - Smiths, Duty Free - Why? Who knows.

Anyho back to our flight, still over the northern reaches of Canada with some awesome views out of the window of great expanses of white glistering ice - we took a photo - it looks like outer space! At this point Daniel starts signing 'Trapped in the mighty  darkness of the Tundra' - a song I've never heard of but the Mighty Boosh apparently sum the area up nicely - 'Ice ice nowhere to go!' - Well it could melt not to get too geographical about it!

Woohoo Codeword almost done - don't think I've ever completed one before (though Daniel is doing most of it!)

Codeword now complete - Yay!!

According to our flight map we are just crossing the border from Canada to the USA so shouldn't be too long before we land in San Francisco!

Lets hope it's not San Fran Foggy!!

Holiday!!!

Woohoo we are finally on summer holiday!! Been a long time coming and school stuff is now all packed away for six weeks. To get in the mood off I went straight away to Majorca for a few days to get in the holiday mindset and returned chillaxed with a tan!

Now its planning all the way for our trip to the USA! Very excited obviously! So the itinerary is as follows:

San Francisco
Los Angeles
San Diego
Chicago

So far we have tickets booked for the 49ers and Alcatraz night tour. We still need to book our tickets for San Diego Zoo and Sea World. For LA we have a couple of things in mind but nothing booked in advance.

So stay tuned for the travels from London to LA (with a few extra stops too)!!

Oh and in other news we have our first chilli growing!!! Yay!