Daddy in his infinite wisdom decided a hybrid car would be the weapon of choice while in the bay.

Here it is in all its glory…

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Sadly he did not realise that Toyota do a Compact version of the Prius hybrid – yep that is what we ended up with…

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It has certainly been a squeeze to get all our gear into the little fella :-(. See the attached pics…..

Thankfully next week we have a full sized mini van at our disposal so the job of getting in to actually go anywhere will be reduced somewhat 🙂

Daddy arrived at San Francisco airport a little after 1pm local time today. The immigration queue was a big one so it took a further 3 hours to get down to the rest of the family in Almaden.

A nice steak dinner courtesy of the Outback Steakhouse take out finished the day off rather nicely.

We may be challenged with the small size of the rental car sadly but we will simply have to do what we can to get our gear in 🙂

Would you believe, not even two days in and the muppet has broken two bones in his foot falling up the stairs….

In fairness he doesn’t appear that fussed about it although when he realises he won’t be swimming or paddling In the sea, we might have a different story to tell…

At the moment he apparently thinks it is quite funny – something tells me mummy isn’t feeling the same way about it…

They have arrived safely in San Francisco and Olly managed to get 5 hours sleep in AND has found his green blanket – was in his bag after all 🙂

Guess it have daddy something to focus on today 🙂 Thanks Olly 🙂

Mummy and Elliot did not manage to sleep so hopefully they will be able to stay awake until tonight (they are 8 hours behind us in England)…

It has been a long 24 hours but Vicky and the boys are now just under 3 hours from landing in San Francisco. On Friday night we had tears from Oliver as he realised that daddy wasn’t going to California with them, then this morning over breakfast Elliot was a little tearful, however they both soon got back onto the right track given their excitement levels 🙂

The hotel was very well located so we were able to sit in the sunshine yesterday evening (daddy with a nice cold beer) while Olly watched the planes landing nearby 🙂

We sort of managed to get some sleep (given the excitement levels in the boys) and then got over to the airport in good time.

Simon got a call from Vicky an hour or so after leaving them to find that Olly thinks he left his favourite green blanket at the hotel. Simon called the hotel and they said they would look for it and call later. The call did come about two hours later with no solid news and that they would call back later…. Simon decided to go back to the hotel in person to see if he could push it on…. Sadly the blanket has not shown up and we are now waiting to see if it got mixed up with the linens heading for the wash….

It has been a sad day for daddy really as he left the family at 7:50 this morning as they skipped into the security area of Heathrow’s terminal 2, then spent the day walking to the Westfield shopping centre from Ealing (and back again).

Daddy is now watching the flight online an looking forward to hearing that they all arrived safely and that their holiday has started 🙂