Day 11 – Friday 30th September 2005
The day began with a welcome lay in, before we returned the rental car. Promising ourselves we would have a big final night together, it meant a quiet day on the beach. The weather did not agree with us, and did its best to dissuade us with the fog and visibility of 50 yards, but the San Diegans were not put off, and neither were we. Taking to the beach with boogieboards and beach towels, we didnt really see the sun, but it was …

Day 10 Thursday 29th September 2005
We checked out of the Orbit Hostel and made our way to the airport to return the rental car and catch a bus to San Diego, setting for the movie of the moment, Anchorman.
On the way we pulled over at Denny`s for yet another breakfast. Two things were accomplished here, firstly that I wont be having any more Dennys, and secondly we would keep the car for the drive to San Diego. This made sense as we could do our own thing and the …

Day 8 – Tuesday 27th September 2005
Having checked out of the Hotel, we were picked up putside by the Budget Car Rental bus, who ferried us to their main depot so we could pick up a 7 seater which we would use to make the trip to Los Angeles.
Fresh from driving the 400bhp Dodge Viper, I think Sam was brought down to earth pretty quickly, but he volunteered to drive anyway.

Every weekday morning, the Stratosphere hold a $25 no limit holdem poker tournament. I decided I would play as I was up early. Not really having played live poker poker before I was a bit nervous I`d give my hand away too easily, but it turns out that at that low limit the players are pretty average.

Sunday was a bit of a write off sue to our lack of sleep Saturday night. I layed in until around 2 when I got up and went to the pool for an hour. I then got Sam and we went to a Nascar themed diner for Chilli Dogs. I dont think Dave and Flan managed to get out of bed until we got back when they went for McDonalds.

With a 13.45 flight from JFK to Las Vegas, wechecked out of the hostel and headed straight to the airport. I thought our airline, JetBlue, would be a small outfit but they had their own terminal with excellent facilities.
The only bad thing I can say about the airline was due to the incident I had read about in the New York Post a few days before when having breakfast.

The previous evening, whilst on our quest to find where New York’s beautiful girls went in the evening, we had stumbled into the San Gennaro street festival in Little Italy. This was a huge street festival which consisted mainly of every type of food you can imagine. As it was held in Little Italy, it was a meatball sub for me.

Day 3: 22nd September 2005
After all the events of the previous day we were not up quite as early as expected, but once we were up, we decided to go up to Central Park and have a wander. After brunch (yes, we did brunch) we hailed a cab, whcih took us to the southern end of central park.