Tuesday 5 December 2006

First Week in the USA


Hello everyone! We have finally found a place to log onto the internet! We have sneaked into a 5 star hotel and are typing from their business lounge. Little do they know we are staying in the shanty motel across the road.

We are in Fort Lauderdale at the moment and are heading for the Bahamas tomorrow morning. We escaped from Daytona Beach a day early, and I say escape as it was a complete dive! Our hotel room smelt like a septic tank, we have a giant boiler thing outside our room which went off every twenty minutes and woke us up. The toilet was another story on its own. Anyway, Ft L, is great and the beaches are beautiful with palm trees and flat turquoise water.

Besides the Daytona experience, the trip has be great so far. 5 nights were spent in Orlando where we visited Disney World and several other resorts. The Zammits loved the parks but were particularly excited to come across those challenge games where you can walk off with big teddy bear prizes etc. As South Africans, the challenges were far too easy and before long we became the proud owners of a giant killer whale, polar bear and nemo fish. We also walked away with three other bears and seals. So much for packing light! Anyway, it was great fun and the next challenge is trying to bring these 6 foot monsters home!

Looks like hotel security is heading this way so we are going to keep it short tonight. Hope all is well back home.

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