Comfort Inn By the Bay San Francisco

Another early morning, our flight was at 9.05am, so we needed to check in by about 6.30am, so we were up at about 5.15am, finished packing the rest of our stuff and we had a hotel car booked that was ready and waiting for about 6.00am. The weather really decided to kick off and rained the whole journey to the airport, whilst the driver told us how out of character it was for New York, they usually only get one maybe two bouts of rain a month. I'm not sure how right that is but it certainly di...

Again due to jetlag or time difference or whatever it maybe we were up early. We went down for breakfast at about 6.30am (2.30pm in the U.K. and 9.30am in New York, as Channy keeps telling me I seem to be obsessed with this) and we were confronted with possibly one of the best inventions man has come up with up to now - a waffle maker. At last we were going to have something typically Amercian for breakfast. It is a wonder, it asks you to take a small plastic cup and fill it with batter from ...

Another day, another waffle but we had made a mistake today, we had gotten up much later, about 8.30am and we couldn't get into the breakfast hall, it was rammed. We had been warned when we got there that the hotel was full and that the breaklfast room could not accomodate everyone so it was ok to eat breakfast in our room. However that did not solve the problem of getting breakfast and then getting it up to our room. The ques were huge even for the lift which took us back up to the 10th floo...

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We cleared American Customs at Vancouver airport (removing shoes, clearing out bags liquids etc so a big job for the 6 of us) which meant our arrival into San Francisco was thankfully fairly relaxed and low key. We aren't the nimblest of travellers with a stroller, 5 suitcases, 6 back packs, 2 bags, 6 of us and everyone trying to do something different. We 'rode' from the airport into town in a large cab into town with a chatty ukranian man who had won his citizenship to the US in a green car...

Due to lack of internet access at Yosemite and limited access at Valencia we didn't upload any photos from Six Flags so going to do that now. Also a few of our trip from Vegas.

The wind is your friend......... I know some people will know what the title of todays blog means. Oh, Mum, we got your message but your time was out by an hour, was close on midnight when you called and had just gone off to sleep, heard the phone but couldn't get to it in time. It was still foggy when we got up this morning although estimated temperature was meant to be 22 degrees Celcius. We left the hotel and walked one block and then decided to turn back as it was quite cold. We grabbed j...

Well, what a day. We had an early start and went down for the buffet breakfast (I took down my own cereal and had that there as not too much for me to choose from). There were a lot of french speaking people at breakfast, don't know if they were french or french canadian, was nice to listen to them. After breakfast we walked all the way across San Francisco, past the Civic Center, to watch some of the Bay to Breakers. Oh, my goodness. We've seen everything now. People dress up in all sorts, g...

We had a leisurely morning this morning. Sat out on the balcony to have breakfast and were distracted by Fat Butt. Fat Butt also had a friend with him but the other squirrel was timid. Fat Butt knew we had food and he knew exactly what he had to do to get it from us. We knew that you aren't meant to feed them and encourage them but he was just so cute we couldn't resist. The river had risen since we had been there. When we got there you could see a rock in the middle of the river with the wat...

I shouldn't have done it and I have no idea what has happened since we left Adelaide, but I couldn't resist it. This is the first time we've actually sat down and really watched what we have wanted on TV (Josh normally controls the remote). USA have just screened the final 2 hours of this seasons 24. I won't say anymore, must watch the rest though when we get home. Although, the dvd and blurays are being released tomorrow, wonder if they'll have it in PAL.