I’ve just got my USA 2007 photos online.

They can be found here: [jalbum_album_short:/Albums/America_2007/Boston/26-07-2007,4]

Well, we’re just getting ready to leave the hotel in Boston and fly back to JFK before flying home.

Flight from here is 10:30, then we’ve got a bit of a wait at JFK, as we don’t fly out of there until 18:00, but I’m reading the latest Potter book, and am only about a quarter of the way through, so I’ve got lots to read.  I’ve also got Pratchets Darwin’s Watch to read if I finish Potter.

The wedding was an experience, and we’ve had a great time over the last 2 weeks. Part of me doesn’t want to go home, but most of me does.

Really looking forward to sleeping in my own bed.

We’ve spent a good part of the day on a Whale Watching trip out of Boston. I was hoping for some good views, but wasn’t expecting it to b quite as good as it was.

At times, we were surrounded by 5 Humpback Whales, and we saw Minke, Fin and Humpback Whales, so all 3 of the baleen whales that we could see.

I have got loads of photos, again and we saw the Humpbacks breaching (jumping), tail slapping and fin slapping.

Here are a couple of the images I took, one of a humpback tail slapping, and the other of a humpback fin slapping.

We’re just about to go into Yellowstone now, so I’ll bee offline for a few days.

Next post will be on Wednesday when we get to Boston.

Well, today was our last day in NYC, and its been another full day.

We started off by going downtown to South Pier to get the ferry to Liberty Island, but there was a lot of fog, and you couldn’t see the tops of the buildings, so we decided to have a bit of a walk first.

We walked up to Wall Street and the New York Stock Exchange, before walking back to Fort Clinton to get our tickets.

On the way through the park, I saw my first ever Monarch Butterfly, and managed to get some decent shots, even though I didn’t have my favourite Macro Lens with me.

We queued up for a while, and went onto Liberty Island, and many, many photographs were taken. Once we got there the weather was quite nice, but it was spooky looking back at Manhattan as it was looming out of the mist, kind of like the wreck of the Titanic in the film Titanic.

Next we went to Ellis Island, and spent ages having an audio tour of the immigration facility. If we’d realised how long it was gonna take, we probably wouldn’t have bothered with the audio guide, but the booking in hall on the first floor, is rather spectacular.

After returning to Manhattan, we had lunch outside the NYSE, before wandering around the ground zero site, and then up to Broadway. After this, we got the subway to Greenwich village, then again to the Apple store. After that, we wandered back to the hotel through Central park, and visited Strawberry Fields, etc.

Got to get an early night tonight, as we have to get up for an early flight to Salt Lake City tomorrow morning.

Just a quick post from the really cool glass cube that is the NYC Apple store.
Soooooo much here that I’d like to buy, but so little money :o(

Well, its been a really wet start to our first full day in NYC.  Woke up this morning to the sound of heavy rainfall and thunder which isn’t good.

Went out anyway, and got rather wet :o(, we got some good shots of some of the buildings, but both the Chrysler building and the Empire State were shrouded in cloud, and the Flatiron building has got bright orange scaffolding on it, which was a bit of a disappointment.

We’re back at the hotel at the moment, waiting for Alice’s camera battery to charge up a bit, then we’re either back off downtown, or off to Central Park, depending on the weather.

Well, its been a very long day today.  We were up at 04:00 in order to catch the 05:00 rail air bus to Heathrow.

There were massive queues at Heathrow, but we arrived just as they started moving people into the executive area to check in baggage, so we didn’t have to wait long.

Flight to Madrid was on time, and short, and the connecting flight was on time as well.

Madrid Airport terminal is a fantastic building, architecturally, and I really enjoyed wandering around it.

Flight to JFK was long (7 hrs) and seemed to take forever, the back has been playing up a bit, but feels a bit better now.\Got to hotel at about 18:00 NYC time, have eaten, and am now going to turn in as am absolutely exhausted.

I’ve just had an email from Plus.Net to say that my broadband account is now active.

Fingers crossed that their service is faster and more reliable than Pipex.

Tonights episode was quite good, not as great as last week, but in “Utopia” we see the return of The Master.

Thoroughly enjoyable, even if it was a Russell T Davies episode.