It's all ratherodd with blogging. I've tried to start a new blog called America 2011 but it seems I can only add to the Europe one last year.
Notwithstanding that.... try saying that after 36 hours with no sleep. We are now in San Francisco an hour earlier than we left Brisbane... left Brisbane at 10.50 on the 20th arrived San Francisco 9.10 on the 20th. We arrived anyway which is more than you can say about our beautifully marked luggage which is probably still in Oz as it certainly isn't effing well in America.
Flight from Brisbane was late by half an hour as Suzanne and the sprogs will testify. We originally had 50 minutes to get to the Innernational airport in Sydney which now went down to 15 minutes so we ran like a Brendon on the way to school, ie a bit slow. Covered in sweat I got on the plane as I thought the second last... Liz (mum) turned up 10 minutes later having stopped for a lie down but this is normal. The flight actually left 40 minutes late because some other prat from Brisbane got lost. Mum said jokingly that we probably got there before our luggage.
She was right.
Our luggage hasn't actually made it to San Francisco.
We've had a wonderful start toSan Francisco going shopping for essentials.
We've been given an allowance from Qantas of $100 each for the inconvenience of not having luggage.
I got my emergency two bottles of beer costing 4 dollars almost immediately. Mum managed to buy basics for the other $196 before dark.
The Nikko in San Francisco is nothing like the one in Hong Kong Douglas and Janet so be warned. The first room in the Club Nikko costing $240 a night had a fabulous view over San Francisco building sites so we asked for another one. This one is better and affords a view over the Bay. We met a couple from london in the Nikko Club room and had a great time with them whinging about tips and things. He plays rugby for Londonx Nigeria and we had good time hiding bottles of wine and plates of cheese before the waiter closed the place down. It was supposed to be free wine and cheese from 5.00 until 7.00 but he'd pretty well cleared the stuff by 6.30 until a loud Scottish voice told him to desist and restock toot sweet. The loud Scotsman got a clap from the audience and pats on the back. The maitre de did a bit of glaring. ..... The loud Scotsman was chuffed.... I wonder who the loud Scotsman was?
No photo's this time around.
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Hi Mum and Dad!
ReplyDeleteSuz has kept me updated and told me you got to America safe and sound without your luggage- I hope you have it now! Sounds like you are already completely relaxed and ready to enjoy a good holiday!
Just got back from having a Good Friday evening meal with Suz and Dan and the kids - they all behaved like angels (and the kids were great aswell haha!)Suz put on a great spread as usual and the boys and Abi all rolled their eggs with both Jayden and Jake eating all their egg (I think Jake even ate the shell!) We decided to do this today instead of easter day as we were going our separate days after Breakfast.
Brendon is heading up the coast for a big training session tommorrow so I will probably go from park to park with the kids (or let them run round Carindale if the weather is bad) We will head up to Peregian Beach for two nights on Sunday - last getaway before school is back.
Hope you enjoy Easter in the States - i'm still very jealous! xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxox
Bloody whinging Scotsman. Just because you lost your luggage, your plane was late and you didn't quite get the view or room you wanted and they cut you off at the bar everything seems to be going OK on your adventure. I'm not going to say holiday because that's probably a bad omen. At least you arrived at the right place ( I think ) Gail and I have just come back from Mooloolaba, not quite the same as the states but heaven just the same. Sun, surf, food and a little bit of oops??? Have fun you 2 I can't wait to hear of your next adventure.
ReplyDeleteStay safe. L Bob and Gail.