New York, Las Vegas, San Diego

A few things we forgot to post on the previous articles were that we rode the SegWay scooter in Las Vegas. I am going to buy one for Christmas . If you do not know what a SegWay is then have a look at :

http://www.segway.com/

They rock ! We did not take any pictures which was a real shame as it was great fun to do.

We went and saw 'The Producers'last night on Broadway - it was really quite good - very funny and the theatre was beautiful. It is a Mel Brooks prodction and has that type of humour in it -very camp though.

We also rode the NY subway (!) this time while we were here. It was really great. It was fast and did not feel dangerous at all. It was not the cleanest thing I had ever seen but it was efficient.

We went to the Intrepid Air and Space Museum today. That is where they have taken a WWII era Aircraft Carrier and fitted it out as a museum. There was a lot of chest beating about what they had done during the wars but I figured seeing as they were most likley accompanied in fleet by Australian warships in those campaigns then that is not all bad. It is Halloween over here and they realy do indoctrinate the kids - they have all sorts of military themes mixed up with Halloween. Lots of kids and adults have been dressing up in costume over the last few days.

We went shopping yesterday and Emily really scored with some great stuff. We went to Macy's and if you can imagine the women's section at Myer you are close once you times it in size by 50 ! Plenty of clothes for blokes as well.

We had breakfast this morning after checking out of the hotel and on the street outside that leads to Broadway (7th Avenue) they had a street market. I still cannot believe they shut the street off for that ! Have a look at the image below. We got some great bargain on belts, socks and hats ! Somethings for the clan as well :-) The weather was glorious today, no gloves, hats or scarves needed and only 2 layers of clothing instead of four !!! Pity we are leaving today.

Normally, at night and most times of the day it looks like :

We also forgot to post a couple of pictures we took from our day trip (38 Gallons in a Hummer) to San Diego, these are below :

The image above is of a long shot of the San diego beach. It was a really mucky day and there was not much visibility. The next shot is a zoom of the same thing. It looks quite pleasant.

For all of how nice it was there were a LOT of homeless people in this area. It seems like they slept on the beach. I saw more here than in New York which does not seem right.