St Simon's Island, Georgia, USA
Trip Start
Oct 04, 2007
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Trip End
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St Simon's Island,
Georgia,
United States
Monday, October 8, 2007
We are in St Simon's. Part of the Golden Isles off the coast of South Georgia, USA. Fantastic part of the world.
Anna's birthday party
We have had a little birthday celebration for Anna's 1st birthday, although she isn't officially 1 until the 19th! She loved it and the house is festooned with balloons still!! :)
Birthday Presents!
Hmmm - Chocolate Birthday Cake!
Great-Granny and Gramps are enjoying spending time with Anna - she has managed to be particularly well behaved despite 2 days of jetlag.
Anna with her Great Grampa
We're off there for lunch now to be fed dangerous quantities of enormous shrimp. YUM!The week before we left Cardiff was spent in a blur of frantic activity, trying to get things sorted so that we could leave with nothing undone. I think we did pretty well - haven't had any major flashbacks to worry me yet! We were in the tinyest hotel room in the city, but it was clean and was all we really needed.
The flight over here from Cardiff via Amsterdam and Detroit was fine. The main long flight of 8.5 hours was on a plane that had loads of empty seats so we managed to get a row of 4 together which made the whole situation quite bearable. Anna used the 2 seats in the middle as her personal playground and did incredibly well. Napped a bit, played a bit, ate a bit in one long cycle. She has since slepr through every night and apart from waking up at 5am the first 2 days, has actually just had her first night of 12 straight hours! Bliss!
It is Columbus Day here so Gerrard and Ami (my cousins) are off school for the day so we are going to Granny's for lunch and will then go down to the beach. Let Anna get some North American sand into her at last!
I'll update this before we leave here.
Gabs, Ben and Anna
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