Ayres Country Inn & Suites Costa Mesa

... and so I had to be to get to my connection to Traverise City, MI which did make. Weather in Michigan is running in the low 80s this week but snow next week, well maybe not snow, just coldand wet. Anyway I am trying out my verizion broad band and it works better than the phone so updates will be often untill I use up my 5GB this month. Will include images tomarrow and will sign off now.

... couple more rides but the one i remember best is the one we did last it was awesome because it was like the log flume exactly we were in a floating log and it was called Splash Mountain and we went down a 40 foot drop i was in the front, the thing that scared me most was not the drop but all the little elves and wolves and bunny rabbits singing it was the most awful thing i had ever heard in my entire life ...

... UVA bar. We had a few drinks - gotta love that most soft drinks have free re-fills at Disneyland! So we sat at the UVA bar and soaked in the atmosphere. I must have taken so many photos of nothing, because everything looked so photogenic. We then decided that we were hungry and we should find somewhere to eat. We had a quick look around before deciding on Ralph Brennan's Jazz Kitchen. This would have been one of our favourite ...

... on the plane. Wrong. There was absolutely NO room, I ended up sleeping for about 3 hrs because it was so cramped. I was sitting on the middle seat and Caz was on the window and someone named Mark was sitting on the aisle. He was going to Canada to move in with his girlfriend. I hope she didn't mind that I accidently fell asleep on Marks shoulder for about an hour. My bad. There was some awesome entertainment, I tried to watch the nanny diaries ...

New favourite ride.. Space Mountain! Second favourite - Buzz Lightyear :) Tomorrowland was excellent. Spent the first part of the day in a line waiting to get into the park, then in another line because there was something wrong with our pass, so they wouldn't let us in, and then in a 3rd line for Finding Nemo's Submarine Voyage, so by lunchtime we'd been on one ride! Went on Space ...

... see the rich and famous peoples houses, in Beverly Hills etc. We actually saw Nicolas Cage come out of his drive in a Rolls Royce. We saw the Hollywood sign and did the walk of fame, kodak Theatre (academy awards), Chinese Theatre (hand prints in concrete), Melrose Ave, and Rodeo drive. We were star spotting, but unfortunatly didnt see any!!!

Well, i might as well talk about my last trip. Mel and I went to chicago last weekend and it awesome. we stayed with our friend john who moved out there in feb. met up with a bunch of friends who also flew out. i really like the city... it's super clean and well organized and every neighborhood has a downtown and people actually walk places! very different from here. anyways, it was great and maybe i'll look into some universities out there for my masters...

... be scared to look out the window in case people thought you were looking at them wrong and decide to blow you away on the strength of it!! Met up with an Irish lad in the dorm, Ed, (meeting Irish people everywhere. Quite lucky really since they're all brill!) and we went out down Hollywood Blvd to buy drinks for the barbie. After the barbie, we ...

... West Bank at the haunting Valley of the Kings, with 34 royal tombs; then the Valley of the Queens, with dramatic Temple of Hatshepsut; and the imposing Colossi of Memnon. After lunch we head to the East Bank, home of the greatest temple complex of them all: Karnak. We tour Luxor Temple, whose builders included both Tutankhamun and Alexander the Great; and Karnak Temple, constructed over a 1,500-year period. (Happy Birhtday, JT!) Saturday March 25, 2006: Luxor/Cairo/Alexandria ...

... stumble. Okay, it wasn't that bad. Just that I hadn't learnt how to balance my backpack and made the fatal mistake of bending down to pick up something, instead of squatting down slowly while shifting the weight on my back. So it was a tad embarrassing to lose one's balance and had to be helped up by the driver who fetched me to my hotel in ...