Best Western Newport Mesa Inn Costa Mesa

I gave IBM 2-week notice last week, and this is my final week of what's left of work. I'm still having meetings and calls, but I'm also getting ready to head to North Carolina to meet my Dad and the boat, Talaria. It's a beautiful, completely refitted 60-ish foot catamaran sailboat (pics posted to follow).

In the midst of a challenging job situation, my Dad, like he's oft to do, said, "Shoot [edited vulg.], why don't you come down here and sail with ...

Disneyland and California Adventures were absolutely awesome and we went on heaps of the rides, such as California Screamin', which was an awesome, fast speed, Roller Coaster that went upside down, Maliboomer which is about 100-200 feet high, you get put in the same thing we had on the rollercoaster, kind of a bar that goes down and locks you into place, and you ...

... since 1995, neither of us had experienced this park yet. I'd heard about how it was a good place to skip the crowds of the middle of the day, so I thought it was a good time to be heading over. We first went and saw Muppets 3D, as a fan of the Muppets I thought this show was great, I also enjoyed the room where the preshow is, I took lots of photos of random stuff. This is a really great show, and I'm a bit disappointed ...

... FYI but fell asleep midthrough each time). The same thing also happened with Superbad. I watched some episodes of Summer Heights HIgh, Extra's and Chasers. The food was Ok we got served some chicken dish which I didn't eat but also a back of salted chickpeas which wer awesome! I stole Caz's while she was asleep. We arrived in LA at about 7.30am on the 18th, so we arrived on the same day that we left. One of Caz's friends from High School who ...

... eg 'Maliboomer', 'Grizzly River Run', 'Californian Screamin'' The rides here had more of an edge, especially the rollercoaster which was particularly thrilling. Also good was the 'Twilight Zone Tower of Terror,' which is set around the haunted Hollywood Hotel. You sit in a 'possessed' elevator that wizzes you up and down between floors, culminating in a free fall from the top floor where the elevator doors open and you see right across the park (once was ...

... 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!!!

Sorry, I had to move to another website because I couldn't get any entries to show up on the other one and it was driving me nuts! And, I can accept donations on this website. How awesome is that? Here's some pics in the beginning in case you forget what i look like when i'm gone.....mom

Day 196 Monday 17 July 2006 Arrived in LA just after 3pm as I continue the longest day in history after my 11 hour flight that took off later on tonight(!) Had a 2 hour minibus journey from the airport as one woman got on the wrong bus and wanted to go to South Central which meant travelling through some very dodgy looking areas....places where you ...

... ll inen suweniir schop und is hardrock-cafe go ässä und äs t-shirt go poschtä. nachäm zmorgä/zmittag simmär dänn mee odär wenigär uf äm schnällschtä wäg widär richtig san diego gfaarä. dä letschti täil vo oisärä räsi hämmär dänn nöd ufäm freeway nummärä 5 hindär ois pracht, sondärn sind uf dä highway s21 wo am schtrand entlang füärt. widär in san diego acho simmär glaubs öppä am halbi foifi. tä tacho hät dänn ä schtolzi zaal vo 700 meile aazäigt, das sind öppä 1126 kilometer.

... back for a shower and then out for dinner to a little Thai restaurant just down the road and it was really nice I had chicken and chilli cashew nuts with rice after a lovely meal I went back to the hostel but I ended down in the bar for a few drinks and then I went to Bed.