Travel

We had a good last couple of days in New York - The Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History was a particular highlight for me - The 3D effects (no glasses required) are fantastic.

We have left the cold of New York for the warmth of Orlando in Florida. Think Gold Coast without the high-rise - it is all spread out but the same type of tourist tackiness. The area is home to about 8 major theme parks from Disney and Universal.

Today (Sunday) we are driving up to St. Augustine to see Kym's cousin and then Monday and Tuesday we will go to a couple of parks - The Universal ones sound like they might be better for adults than the Disney ones.

It has been another couple of full days for us here in New York. On Monday we took the trip to the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island. She isn't as big as we thought .

We braved the outside upper deck yesterday for the "up town" bus tour, but after two hours I couldn't feel my feet, so we stayed inside for the "holiday lights" tour last night and the "down town" tour today.

Kym and I have started our US adventure. We had a bit of a rocky start after our plane for the LA to NY leg was taken out of service 5 minutes after we boarded. After a 1 1/2 hour delay they found a new plane and we were on our way. We arrived in NY about 10:30pm local time only to wait for 30 minutes at the baggage carousel. They then told us that if our bags hadn't appeared (which ours hadn't) then we had to walk over to the next terminal where they would be waiting.