On the 6th we caught our flight from Seattle to Chicago. We spent most fo the day travelling as Chicago is 3 hours ahead of us!! We chose a hotel close to the airport just for the one night but regretted it when we had to wait 1.5 hours for the complimentary shuttle bus that supposedly runs 24 hours a day!!!!! Anyway we have a pretty quiet night. On the 7th - Jacqui's birthday - we headed off to our new hotel - again close to the airport because it was cheap but...

On the 5th we set off earlyish on our bus bound for Seattle. Besides the drive liking his brakes and the bus not like to change gear the journey was OK. We arrive late at 4pm so headed to our hotel and Neen went exploring whilst Jacqui set off to sort out a hotel in New York. After a few hours New York was sorted - we managed to get somewhere in Manhattan for not toooooo much money. Neen has visited the famous Needle Tower for views of the city and had explo...

On the 1st we had a nice sleep in and then killed time on the internet before heading to the airport for our flight to Vancouver. Uneventfull flight had a nice new plane so got to watch half a movie!!!! Must see the rest as it was good - Frature with Anthony Hopkins. Once we arrived we caught our seabus over to North Vancouver to our hotel. And a very nice hotel it was too :) Huge room overlooking Vancouver city - kind of if you craned your neck We headed off to...

On the 28th we nearly missed our flight from Vegas to LA - whoops!!! There was a huge queue for the taxi!! Anyway we made it to our flight and spent the day getting from Las Vegas to San Fran via LA! We were however met at San Fran by an over excited Michael Stringer who wrestled Neen to the floor as we walked out! So we headed off to our new home for the next 4 days in Castro Valley. The house was great - another bit of luxury. On the 29th off the clan went t...

On the 26th we headed off early to begin the drive back to Las Vegas so Bev, Mark & Michael could catch their flight to San fran and we had two nights in Las Vegas. We arrived back and dropped the Stringers at the airport then Jacqui and Neen returned the car and headed to their new Hotel - Circus Circus at the other end of the strip. We had the biggest queue we have ever seen at check in!!! Only took 40 minutes - but our room was lovely a bit dated in pla...