Goodness, what a day!! What didn't we see?? I can only remember the highlights. After an early brekky we walked over to the Greyline Depot by 8.40am to get our tour. The tour started at 9am and we weren't back to our room till 7.30pm!!! We drove down to Battery Park via Everywhere (Time's Square, Macy's, Soho, Little Italy, Chinatown, Empire State Building, Madison Square, Madame Tussaud's) and then we caught the ferry (after taking off our watches, belts, ba...

What a lovely day!! First we had to walk a couple of blocks to a grocery store and buy some milk for our brekky - returned, had brekky and then set out at around 11am - walking all the way across to the Intrepid Museum - interesting walk. We finally went on the Concorde - narrow seats - all sealed but you could still smell the leather. We saw lots of planes and helicopters on board the aircraft carrier (Tom in heaven), but unfortunately the submarine was clo...

After brekky this morning we caught our shuttle to SF airport. There was a lot of security - we had to take off jewellery, bags, jackets and shoes. There was no lounge for first class, but we did come across an internet lounge, just set up the day before. We read our emails and sent the girls an email, at last. We boarded the plane, had some lovely c******nay with our tasty lunch and watched "Raising Helen". The seating and service was not as good as what we'd ha...

Missing the girls so much, but public phones are few and far between. Our hotel charges the standard rate plus 95%!! Tomorrow we hope to have access to the internet at the airport. Today we walked down to the wharf where the coaches leave from and got great coach seats for our 11 hour tour. Our coach driver was Herman the German, but actually Austrian, whose driving became more erratic as the day passed. We drove down the coast (running 3/4 hour late because of ...

We sure slept well last night!! In bed at 7.30pm and awake when the alarm went off at 6.50am!! School in the USA just started back in their new school year last week, football is starting and baseball has finished! This morning we were collected by a Greyline coach at 8.45am and had a deluxe city tour in a double decker. We saw the iconic Lombard Street, Danielle Steele's house, the area that Robin Williams and Shirley Temple both live in.....we saw lots of "pa...