Catalina Canyon Resort And Spa Avalon

... ICE, good toilet paper (not sand paper), soft towels (at Nancy's), easy use of money, no surprises! Off to cruise. We'll keep in touch...this blog will get boring as you all know what to expect from America! Hope to meet some nice people on the cruise ship...

... we headed down the coast stopping in Monterrey for a maple donut and down to the Madonna Inn. There we enjoyed Santa Cruz a little bit, before heading to a fantastic dinner at the Madonna in. We than headed into Solvang for wine tasting and great meal before arriving back in Los Angeles in time to meet up with my (Scott's) family for the annual Newport Beach vacation!

... It is all really sad today, but I think tomorrow once we actually pull into port in San Diego I will be crying tears of joy, because I get to see my parents!! And it has been a really long time at sea, I will be thankful just to see land. Last night was a student talent show, and I sang and played the guitar. I played 'No Rain' by Blind Melon. I went first, and I had everybody sing along, it was great. Oh, and how could I forget to tell you ...

... meant h**king up with the Black Panth** Party and w*rking in the white c*mmunity f*r the lib**ati*n *f blacks and *th** *ppressed pe*ple in the United States. It meant taking it all int* the streets and using the music as a means t* change the way *ne thinks and the way the w*rld w*rks. It meant that while the music and the culture that it created was imp*rtant, th**e had t* be radical ec*n*mic and p*litical change, t**. The answ ...

... choice of 20 at the hotel gift shop!) so after opening that and packing our last few things, we got the porter to take our bags down to the car that the valet returned to us. It was a 5 hour drive back to LA, and we stopped off for lunch on the Nevada / California border at a place called Primm, where there was another huge casino. The food was much cheaper here than in Vegas, and I won $3 out of the '2 cents a play' slot machine (which almost paid for our ...

... dinner at a 5* hotel, which was really good as we went to an Italien restaurant and the pizza was great as were the chips and garlic bread! The next morning we flew back to Havana for our last evening together. I had an interesting experience buying some art. Apparently they're not allowed to sell it (I don't know if that's just to tourists or everyone) so when I had picked it I had to meet the guy in a dodgey cafe for him to slide it over the ...

... herself a Cowboy out in the desert (Sam, he was even older than me if that is possible) we had lunch with the cowboys on a ranch and went pony trekking with Sam in the desert past some ancient Indian holy mountains half way through our helicopter trip to the Canyon. Next we went onto Death Valley which is fantastic right up my street, give me the choice between cities and the deserts and mountains I know which I ...

... to look at but they got really similar after a while. We went upstairs, which had a great view of the Hollywood sign even though it was a kinda foggy day. Jonathan took more photos with my camera and we went to this cool museum called 'Believe it or not \' which had lots of unbelievable things like a skeleton of a child with 2 heads, lots of optical illusions etc etc the kids loved it! We saw a sign 'Starz' which apparently means that a show is being filmed even ...

... Rarotonga is tight, but I've been photocopying the Lonely Planet guide out of Toronto Library to plan what I'm going to do there!(along with the Fiji one too!). The whole island has a 20mile circumference so i'm possibly going to cycle round it depending on weather and availability of bike/energy! Hopefully I'll be staying at Varas Beach House (www.varas.co.ck) which has unbelievable views over 'the lagoon'. Don't worry I'll be snappping away so you get to see it all :-) The ...

... carrying bag for the x-ray portion (ie - the bag had to go through the x-ray, the cat didn't. Guess they didn't want to know what we might have hidden in his innards). When we arrived in Los Angles and rented a vehicle, Snicklefritz needed no coaxing but walked right over and hopped in the car. He seemed to enjoy the 2hr drive back to Ventura. We stayed in Ventura till the 30th since the moorage was paid for, and we needed ...