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...she's leaving in May!

That's right, I'm gonna be a part of it...

New York! New York!

Mr & Mrs.P are packing their bags for a month long adventure in the US of A! I am sooooo excited!

I tweeted a little while ago about this trip, back before everything had been finalised and it was all still in the dreaming stage.

But now the trip is a reality, and a little different to what we had originally planned.

Now, to give you a bit of background, I am going to be attending one of the biggest book fairs in the world in New York at the end of May, Book Expo America. I am so bloody excited (did I say that already? Ah, who cares, I'm going overseas!!! And there'll be hundreds of books!). This is my first trip to the states, my first time at a Book Fair, and my first ever 'business' trip!

The original plan was to spend a week or two after the Expo in New York, doing the tourist thing, and then to fly home via London with a possible stop in Paris(!).

However, that was waaaaay too expensive. So instead, we have booked ourselves 4 weeks in the States and it will only cost $400 more than the flight alone would have, to come home via London.

So we are now going to be spending 7 nights in NY (after the week of work), then 3 nights at Niagara Falls (where we plan to hire a car and do a bit of driving around, see the sights, I'll be looking for good photographic locations!).

2 nights in Vegas, followed by 6 nighths in Anaheim (50 mins outside of LA) so we can do the theme parks (Disneyland, Universal, Knotts Berry), and finishing it all off with 5 relaxing nights in Hawaii!

I reckon with all of that we are really gonna need several days in a tropical paradise to recover from the rest of the trip!

Mr.P is most excited about Hawaii I think. He's been going on and on about seeing a volcano crater and maybe catching an American Fish so he's happy. I think he likes the idea of theme parks and snorkelling bettter than the Eiffel Tower and Big Ben!

I wouldn't really care where we are going, I'm just excited to be going OS. This will be my second trip overseas (the first being my honeymoon to Fiji in 2008) and it will be the longest continuous time Dave and I have travelled for. I imagine I'll be pretty home sick by the time we get back, and I'll be missing my Guinea Pigs like crazy, hoping they have been fed well (they live up to the 'Pig' in their name these two!). But I'll be having too much fun to think about that until the last night, when it's almost over and the thought of 11+ hours on a plane is just BLAH!

We'll be taking the laptop, so I'll definitely be trying to post pics and updates as we make our way from coast to coast. All of the hotels we are staying at have wifi so hopefully it won't be too bloody expensive!

So anyway, that's our big event. We'll be leaving at the end of May, and be back about the 19th/20th June, just in time for my birthday on the 21st! I would have loved to spend my birthday in the Northern Hemisphere, have a birthday that for once would be the longest day of the year rather than the shortest, but we can't really afford to be gone any longer.

So, my faithful friends, do you have any handy tips for this novice traveller, special tricks or hints that will make travelling easier? Have you been to any of the places we'll be going and think there is somewhere we must visit? Any and all advice is much wanted and appreciated!

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