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New York, New York!! Laura's American Adventure...
Hello!
We are still in Philly but now we are staying at the house of one of our campers (Liza) and her Mum (Marci) who worked at the camp too. We are planning on staying here for over a week to save a bit of money and it's going well so far! Marci has just gone to pick up Belinda, another counselor from camp, and once she gets here we are going to do all the touristy sight-seeing things. Though I'm not too sure what exactly there is to see here!? Yes Vince, Will Smith comes from here! In fact we're in his Mum's neighbourhood, this house is huge!!! Also we apparently have to run up the steps from the film Rocky.... Oh, and there's the Hersheys amusement park where they give you free Hersheys chocolate when you get off the rides (not sure if thats such a great idea!!?? You'd love it Hayley!).
So far we have just been chilling out in the house, though it sometimes feels like we're back at camp with the screaming kids - 3 of them aged 5,10 & 12! Help! The house is massive and has a pool outside but unfortunately as the family has been away all summer its not really in a state to swim in it. We have also been watching enough Disney Channel and Nickolodeon to last a lifetime!? But we can't complain, it's great staying here for free, they are feeding us lots and providing plenty of beer. They have taken us out for a few fancy meals and insisted on paying plus driven us into town for a night out. It's pretty cool!
We went to this fantastic Japanese restaurant where half of the table is a giant hotplate and they cook your food right in front of you (as well as throwing shrimps and making you catch them in your mouth!! he he!). It was really great!
I have used a pic of Washington as there are none of Philly but its ok because Marci is taking us to stay in Washington for a few nights next week! I'm looking forward to that!
We are staying here til September 8th when we have booked a flight across to California!!!!! I'm so excited! We are flying to Oakland near San Francisco and staying there for a week or so with friends and another camper. After that we are hopefully going to Los Angeles and Disneyland to finish our trip. It looks like we should be home in the next 2-3 weeks.
I am really enjoying it out here and can't wait for California but I'm also looking forward to coming home to see everyone...... and getting to the gym!! The food out here is dangerous!
I'm going to go get ready for our next outing, apparently we are getting a train to somewhere.... we went to a huge shopping centre yesterday which has shops like Macy's and Bloomingdales, amazingly I left 7 hours later without buying a single thing!!
One other piece of news I have is that I was being a geek and checking out the Wicked website yesterday and in the London Cast is a girl I used to go to dance classes with in Peterborough!!!! How jealous am I! So now I have to do something with my life or I'm going to feel a failure! I too will be on the west end stage!!!!?
Ok, rant over, time to go.
Hope all is good back home! Miss you all lots!
Til next time, bye bye!
Laura xxx
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