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25-01-2005, 09:05 AM
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Mrs G
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Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Nr Stratford
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My USA report and piccies (sorry may be long!)
Well it all started on Saturday 8th when we drove to London checked our bags in at our hotel and took the car to the lovely Jacqui and Trevs. We then made are way via tube to the Aldelphi to watch Chicago, we had fantastic seats and the show was amazing, the fact that the woman were scantily dressed only added more to Simons enjoyment of it! We then went back to the hotel for are free dinner and nights stay which were excellent.
Sunday morning we were up at about 5 in order to be ready for a taxi at 6.30 to take us to Paddington to get the Heathrow Express. We arrived at Heathow checked in and went to get breakfast etc. Eventually we got on the plane and all was well untill about 2 hrs before we landed, because of bad weather at LA we had to take a slightly diffrent path and it seemed like we were coming down for 2 hrs and this made me incredibly sick 
We landed got our bags and found Mum, Dad and Gran waiting for us. My sister had had to go as are flight was delayed and it was getting dark and because of the weather she was worried about getting back home.
We couldnt see her for 3 days as this was blocking her road and all other routes to her were either blocked or in danger of being blocked
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25-01-2005, 09:11 AM
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What is that thing!?
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25-01-2005, 09:15 AM
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Very proud mummy
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O my god, where the hell did that come from????
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25-01-2005, 09:21 AM
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For the first couple of days the most exciting thing we did was go to Ralphs, the local supermarket which is about 1000 times better than any supermarket here the produce is much higher quality and the store is really clean. We also spent ages glued to the Weather Channel! which i have to say i was most impressed with as it was so accurate.
Wednesday we drove the long way to my sisters taking in Mullholland Drive which has some of the most expensive houses on.
Below are pictures of my sisters pad and her horses and waterfall in her garden that goes into the canyon, some of you may remember one of the horses fell down this.
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25-01-2005, 09:24 AM
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(sorry for duplicate pic!)
That big round thing is a boulder and it came from the mountains!!
Below is my Dad and then my Mum and sister and one of the horses
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Last edited by claireg : 25-01-2005 at 09:27 AM.
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25-01-2005, 09:28 AM
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Very proud mummy
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Beautiful horses 
I swear that boulder looks like some kind of disaster movie special effect...I can't believe it's real!
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25-01-2005, 09:30 AM
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We then went to LA drove along Hollwood Bvd, saw Manns theatre the hands and the stars
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25-01-2005, 09:31 AM
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Baby on the way!!
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It all looks fantastic! That is one big rock!
More piccis please!
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25-01-2005, 09:32 AM
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And made our way back to the house via Sunset strip
below is one of the houses on the strip most of them you cant see as they are behind massive gates
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25-01-2005, 09:33 AM
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More more more!!!!
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25-01-2005, 09:37 AM
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Oy, watch it, Spaceman!
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Great pics so far! That boulder is unreal though! Are we getting more??
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25-01-2005, 09:37 AM
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Great photos so far. We want more. And that massive boulder looks very scarey.
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25-01-2005, 09:43 AM
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Thursday was Dads 60th B day and he was meant to be going fishing but due to landslides and him having a bad back he couldnt go. So i went to get my nails done and we took my dad out for lunch to a place called the Reel Inn which was like a very posh eat in chippy, it had long tables and benches and served every type of fish you can imagine!
In the evening we went to a mega posh resturant called Geoffreys
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A lot of the stars eat there and they have a wall where the stars doodles are framed and displayed, we saw Al Pacinos and Bruce Willises to name but two. The food and service were fantatsic and i had my first American cocktail here!
We ate on the patio with heaters around us overlooking the ocean. Although it was quite expensive its a must for any of you who happen to be in the area!
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25-01-2005, 09:48 AM
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 @ that boulder!!! I love the pics so far keep them coming.
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25-01-2005, 09:48 AM
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Friday was spent muching about, going to the beach and my wishes came true when we saw dolphins!
Puics of views you can spot the snow on mountains in distance, hopefully you can see a dolphin! Look in the middle of the pic
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25-01-2005, 09:54 AM
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Piccies of the house we stayed in including my breakkie orange tree and Grans lemon tree for the slice in her G&T!
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25-01-2005, 09:58 AM
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The obsene plant on the balcony and views from house of ocean oneway and mountains and houses other way
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25-01-2005, 10:01 AM
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saturday we went to san diego on the way we visited my sisters fellas step dads avocado farm
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25-01-2005, 10:05 AM
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We stayed here for one night and these are the views. Mum and Dad had a suite which was massive and had a sofa bed in the lounge which my sis and her fella used as well as a pull down bed for Gran. The suite led out onto a terrace which we ate brekkie on the next morning
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25-01-2005, 10:07 AM
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In the morning we spotted that there was a car show on near the ocean so i tried to take a pic for Dawnie, you see even when on hols i still think of the Groovers!
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