We all went over to Aunty Beryl's for dinner this evening, which was nice, apart from an unfortunate incident involving me and a potato masher...... sorry Aunty Beryl!

Mary used to go to college not far from Sedona and knows it quite well, so as we'd only really passed by it on Wednesday we decided to take a drive up there and go for lunch. Mary, Chris, Dan and I got to the restaurant about 1pm in blistering heat. We got a fantastic table which was on the veranda over looking some of the red rock formations. On Mary's reccomendation we ordered the turkey anti pasta salad, which was delicious, and very cheap. Sedona is a bi...

My Auntry Beryl came over on Monday to catch up and meet Dan,while Uncle Mikel took Chris to have his cast off his leg (accidentduring paratrooper training). Today Uncle Mikel took Dan and I to see someof Arizona. We drove north through the desert to a place called Jerome, after stopping in Cottonwood for lunch. Jerome is an old mining town high up in the hills (6000 ft above sea level).It's a cute little place that used to be called the wickedest place in A...

Got the metro (new subway) to the train station then a taxi to the Greyhound station this morning. The station is in a very dodgy part of LA; when Dan went outside an old black car pulled up with some homeboys inside, one of whom asked if he wanted a taxi - which I presume translates into "Do you want to be mugged?" Sohe quickly went inside. We'd heard that the scumof the earth ride the Greyhound and that it'd be pretty scary - but it was fine. No worse than...

Today we got up at 9am to watch the Engalnd game and then found out that it was on at 6am! But they did win though. So we decide to go back to bed as jet lag had started to kickin. Slept until 2pm! This timewe actually made it to Beverly Hills (after 2 bus rides). The place is full of Ferarris, Lambourghini and Bentleys and the shops on Rodeo Drive were scarily expensive,just as I thought. Went for the bus back to Hollywood, but I insisted on getti...