Now in San Diego

So on the 27th, Pete dropped us at the airport (thanks Pete) and we flew to LAX. The flight was OK but none of us managed to sleep very well so zipping down the freeway at 80MPH, driving on the right, in a strange car, on about 2 hours sleep was a bit of a worry!

The first few nights, we stayed with Becky who we worked with at Platinum when we lived here in 1995 through 1998. We took the time to catch up with a few other friends from that time.
First was Matt (from Platinum), his wife Laura and their kids Autumn and Emily. Our kids met theirs last time we were here and Emma had plans to have frozen yogurt with them again like last time so that was what we did! The kids jumped right in as though we'd seen each other just last month!
Next day we caught up with Joe who Cathy did marathon training with. We had donuts with him and then went out to Lunch with another Platinum guy, Doug, and his family.

All of these ended up at weird hours because we were always running late and were hungry at odd hours because of the time change!

The season change has also been weird... During the middle of the day it was warmer than in Auckland (we even went for a couple of swims while saying with Becky) but it gets dark at 5 and the temperature drops rapidly when the sun goes down.

From Becky's, we moved to a hotel just up the road from Disneyland. We took the opportunity to see an Ice Hockey game at the nearby stadium. The team we supported when we lived here, the Anaheim Ducks, played the San Jose Sharks and won 6 - 3. It was a cool to be at the game and even better that the home side won.

I'll leave the Disney experience for someone else to write about but note that it was great to catch up with the Healy Family who we knew through Juggling years ago. Jugglers from that period are a bit thin on the ground now so when we went to the Orange Jugglers meeting the only person (other than Steve Healy) who we knew was Michelle Gerdes, Steve Gerdes staying away for the night because he wasn't well.

And now, we are in San Diego. Only just... Zak was sick last night so rather than the original plan on racing down here to do an attraction today, we stayed in the hotel in Anaheim until 12, drove straight to the hotel here and Zak and I have just hung out, watched a movie and done some laundry. Cathy and Emma headed out to visit the zoo. Zak is a lot better now but hasn't eaten anything yet. Hopefully he will be OK tomorrow so we can go to Legoland!

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