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# Saturday, 29 November 2008
Heathrow to New York City!

MACSWAYROUND - DID continue and after a very comfortable and enjoyable stay in Lee- on- the –Solent, and after visiting The Spinnaker Tower for a view over Portsmouth (with a glass floor to walk across if you are brave enough!) –we packed up our bags and were taken to Heathrow airport. Thank-you once more, to Don, for his time and to both Don and Sandy for their kindliness and patience!

At Heathrow airport we were shown how to operate the E-Ticket machine as it has been a while since we have flown anywhere! This was excellent to save on the long “check in” queue. We had been given good advice to book a hotel to make sure we had  a US address, as we would need to fill in the visa waiver forms on the plane-however we had no proof about the exact date we would be exiting the USA. It is no longer acceptable to just say that we will be leaving within the 3 month allowable time –we must be able to prove this and luckily a helpful assistant made us aware of this before we came to check in. It was lucky that we arrived at the airport in such good time, as it meant that to be allowed to catch our flight –we had 1 hour to book our tickets for when we move on from the USA!! Another lesson learnt along our way!  We had to pay over the top for our tickets but our choices were limited if we were to catch our flight (and we now know that we will be flying from Los Angeles to Brisbane on February 3rd 2009!!)

The flight to JFK in New York took approximately 8 hours with Virgin Atlantic and the time flew by surprisingly quickly! We were very well looked after with drinks, a main meal and snacks and the children were quite happy with their own personal TV screen built -in and free choice of viewing! (another new feature since we last flew!). It was a long flight for a first flying experience but they both loved the take off and view from high above the clouds!

We were able to see the Manhatten Skyline from our hotel-and have been continually amazed as we discover more of New York City! We have enjoyed listening to the ever famous and traditional words of the locals – “THIS IS NEW YORK CITY!”

More Photos and blog will follow shortly - thanks for your interest..............


Saturday, 29 November 2008 01:28:39 (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)  #    Comments [1]  USA

Monday, 01 December 2008 15:52:46 (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)
Getting closer! My dad cant wait to see you. i hope you had a lovely thanksgiving. Good thing the plane trip went well. Stay safe. Love you all!
xoxoxox
Nat
natasha mckenzie
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