Club Iguanas After waking up at about 1 o'clock we spent the day spent the day chilling and sorting some stuff out on the internet before heading off to the second pre party at a club called Iguanas. The party was held upstairs in a nice bar with two smallish dance floors. The floors themselves were very nice and we were treated to another live band call Group Latin Vibe who although they played their own songs were less enjoyable than the band of the previo...

Dancing!! After a leisurely lie in we got up to blue skies and sunshine! We spent a few hours wandering about, looking in various bookshops for a south American map which doesn't appear to exist and generally browsing. We paid a visit to STA, the travel agents we used back in the UK to set up our trip and insurance, to see if we could sort some of our later flights out. They were very helpful and gave us the website of a company called spirit air who work ou...

Arriving in New York We woke up after a disturbing night to rain, but at least the wind had dropped! Back to the drawing board looking for a place to stay in New York, in desperation I put a plea out on the last minute requests board on couchsurfing. Finally a result, well several in fact! We had a couple of people text us about rooms to let and one guy email us recommending his friend who had an apartment to rent. We rang the guy with the apartment, we still c...

IHOP & Irene We decided we'd treat ourselves today as we were feeling a bit down over the lack of response in New York. So we found a restaurant which had been recommended to us called IHOP. It is a chain across America and is short for....International House Of Pancakes!!!! It is obviously a popular place as we arrived at about 10.30 and already there was a 10-15 minute wait to get a table!! With nothing better to do, we waited and eventually were seate...

Nick's Garage We had an uninterrupted night's sleep and woke up at 9 am. After filling the water bottles we set off again. We drove until lunch time and then stopped because Mae was missing Matt and needed to chat on skype for 2 ½ hours, during which time we also tried to find a place to stay in New York. This turns out to be far easier said than done as the majority of people don't bother to answer your messages and this is on a site where you are paying to s...