Universal studios day. Up early 7pm and breakfast . All you can eat to fuel us up for the day. As this park is only a few miles from the hotel we were there on time for 9am opening. The car park was huge and long travelaters helped in the walk from the car. The universal logo world was at the entrance to the park. There were no queues and we were in promptly. We had decided to get to as many rides without our fast passes starting with the transformers 3d ride. W...

Day two orlando.Tuesday We decided to have more of a rest day so slept as long as we needed. We went down to the breakfast at 9.30 the hotel does an all you can eat breakfast. Jordan was in 7th heaven. I made a waffle which was shaped like Mickey Mouse. There was loads of choice including fruit, pancakes, bacon, maple strip and scrits (oat meal) Plus lots more. We decided to drive and find a shop I was looking for called hobby lobby. It was situated in downtown ...

Up early and packed. I hailed a taxi and off we went at 7.30 in the morning to JFK airport saying goodbye to New York. It was a cold morning with the temperatures dropping. No snow thankfully. It is st Patricks day which the Americans celebrate with lots of green and weird things on the menus such as braised cabbage. We found terminal 4 and joined the check in queues. These were long due to full body scans. Jordan and Martin had the full scans and had to take ...

Up early yet again.. Had breakfast at the Brooklyn diner. I had american pancakes, 3 huge fluffy ones, Jordan had these with strawberries and Canadian bacon. Martin had French toast with maple syrup. Three absolutely huge chunks. We all felt like three big piggies after this. When we got out the New York half marathon was on. We caught the subway from 59 th street and got off at rector street. We walked to the world trade centre . This has the 9/11memorial unde...

Day two. The weather is a littler warmer than previous day. We were up early and took a taxi to down town manhatten, battery park. The taxi driver was very chatty and said we should go half way over the Brooklyn bridge and see soho for more independent shops. The cost of the ride was 20$. We decided to check in at the statue tours a little early as queues were already quite large. We had booked the tickets online in uk and had paid to see the pedestal and crown. ...