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Ben
“To lose a brother is to lose someone with whom you can share the experience of growing old” Yann Martel Life of Pi It’s two years since my brother Ben died today. We remembered him by sending origami...
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The Sylvia Hotel and Vancouver
We are staying in the Sylvia Hotel in Vancouver on the recommendation of online friends (thanks Jen). What a wonderful base for exploring Vancouver! The hotel was built in 1910 for the original...
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Heading to San Fran
Yesterday morning we went in a limo to the airport. We went in a plane owned by American Airlines which you have to pay extra for if you want to have anything apart from a drink. We could’ve gone on...
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Alcatraz
On Alcatraz the only place we went to was the prisoners cells. There was a mass breakout but it failed there are holes in the floor from grenades. 2 bars on the guard walk are stretched so a person...
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What are we reading?
Leah and Maria have taken the kids out for breakfast this morning to their new found favourite breakfast place, Stacks, who have delicious breakfast potatoes that all the kids love. So here goes, I’ll...
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Family, food, friends and fun!
It’s our eleventh day in San Francisco and here I am just starting to post about it! We have been treated like royalty by my cousins Maria and Clare and my aunt Josie. Maria has given us her lovely...
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Joshua Tree
I went camping with a kid named Ryan, he was born ten days after Emmett. I got a junior park ranger badge because I answered the “coyote” section of the kids Joshua Tree National Park book. (That’s...
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Emmett’s Joshua Tree blog
I went camping with Ryan at Joshua Tree. I went rock climbing but Ryan couldn’t because he had a broken arm. I ate marshmallows toasted on the fire. And I got a park ranger badge because I answered...
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Sleeping under the stars
After a lovely picnic with our San Francisco friends and a goodbye meal with Maria, Josie and Clare we headed off to Los Angeles for the last leg of our Round the World adventure. Goodbye to Maria...
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Disneyland
We went to Disneyland and we went on 2 roller coasters. Normally I don’t like roller coasters but these two weren’t very fast. They were the Big Thunder Mountain Railroad and Matterhorn Bobsled....
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