This morning we headed back down to the Financial District as we had tickets for the 9/11 Memorial Museum. I think most people can vividly remember what they were doing that day … we were both working in London for US entities and it was an extremely emotional and scary time. Seeing the museum and … More Day 13 – 9/11 Memorial Museum, Brooklyn and Stomp
This morning we got sorted and headed down to Battery Park in the Financial District. We found a street vendor and the kids had a pretzel each for breakfast. ? After a bit more of a wander we caught the ferry to Liberty Island for our tour of Lady Liberty (aka The Statute of Liberty). … More Day 12 – Statute of Liberty and 9/11 Memorial
This morning we got up and reloaded the car with all our bags before heading to the train station in Albany. Once there, I checked us in and got the kids some food while Mark returned the car to the rental car company. We boarded the train and headed to New York and arrived in … More Day 11 – A train ride to NYC
Today was a day for everyone! We started out by packing up in Boston and heading south to a town called Foxborough in Massachusetts which is the home of the Patriots, NFL team. We visited the Patriots Hall of Fame which is effectively a museum which takes you through Patriots and New England football (and … More Day 10 – Home of the Patriots and Shopping
This morning we were booked to take a tour of the home of the Boston Red Sox, Fenway Park. We got shown around a lot of the park including the green monster. After the tour, we did a spot of shopping at the Red Sox Shop and then Mark & TJ went to a game … More Day 9 – A visit to Fenway
This morning we went and took some last minute photos around the hotel lobby and surrounding areas. It was then time to catch our flight to Boston. We had some great views from the flight. By the time we got to the hotel and got our room sorted, it was time for dinner and bed
Day Four – Tuesday Our first day in Salt Lake City and Mark had a golf tournament as part of his conference. The course, Promontory, I’m told by Mark was designed by Peter Dye who is apparently quite famous in golfing circles. Mark had a great time and had a good chat with Mike Bailey … More Days Four to Seven – Salt Lake City
Our last day in LA so after packing up and checking out we headed straight to Universal Studios which is back towards LA city. We saw the Hollywood sign (although failed to get a photo) and arrived in good time. Mark was in desperate need for coffee so the first stop (after collecting our front … More Day Three – Universal and Harry Potter World
With much excitement and anticipation we headed to Disneyland Park today. It was another very hot day so we relented and bought the spray fan early on. The rides are definitely tamer at Disneyland and Space Mountain was closed to prepare for Halloween so we couldn’t go on that. We went to the Finding Nemo … More Day Two – The Magic Kingdom
First, apologies it has taken a few days to find the time to sit down and write these posts. What a day!! We woke at 2am in order to catch our 6am flight. There was a lot of queue waiting for things to open but once we were checked in and cleared we headed straight … More Day One – USA Here We Come
We’ve set up this Blog in advance of our big trip to the USA in September. Hopefully those of you who read it find it interesting, and possibly funny, and we’ll try and post most days with lots of photo’s and video. The planning has gone well and the kids are very much looking forward … More Planning The Big Trip