The Surprise Party!

A PARTY ALL FOR ME!

How excited was I to have a surprise party all for me. I would like to take this opportunity to thank all my family for organising this wonderful surprise, especially Charlie and Mum. It meant so much to me and I had a fab time! It was great to see everyone there - feel free to 'blog' any comments about the evening. Here are a few photos:

THE FAMILY!

My surrogate sisters!

My crazy friends!

There are lots more photos hanging around. If you have any, I would love to see them.

The Great journey

Sunday July 30th

This is Hannah - the girl I was chatting to on the internet. She is from Scotland and she was my travelling buddy!

We flew United Airlines to JFK where we had to go through immigration. This took only 20 mins - we were really lucky as others spent hours there!

We then flew on another plane to Raleigh NC. This plane was very small and quite scary and I am sure now I have overcome my fear of flying after this experience. Here is the compact plane we flew in:

When we got to Raleigh we were met by VIF representatives who took us to our hotel - and here is the link (I hope you are impressed Ian!)

http://www.millenniumhotels.com/MCIL.nsf/lu_hoteldoc/113$$hotelDescription?opendocument