Start Spreading the News...

Start spreading the news I'm leaving today... I'm sitting at the airport waiting to board my flight to Los Angeles. I travelled to the airport with Haylee, driven by her father. Haylee over budgeted the travel time. We were supposed to arrive at 7am, but were seated in the airport at 6:30am and were the first of the purple shirts to arrive. I suppose it was better to be early than late. I've been keeping the children of one of my dance teachers company for the past half an hour. One of them is already bored; the fourteen hour flight should be interesting... maybe they will sleep. **fingers crossed** I'm only feeling moderately excited at the moment, I think the real excitement will be felt when we arrive in LA. There just been an announcement that our plane is delayed, which initially had us worried, but it is estimated to arrive only 45mins later, which isn't too bad.

Until next time,

KeEp DaNCinG...

Claryse

At the airport

We are at the airport! (Using the free internet at the boarding gate)

It's a beautiful day in Sydney... too bad we're leaving in like an hour.

People have already noticed us "purple people eaters" and asked us where we're going and why. When we tell people we're going to Disneyland they get very excited for us.

Our plane isn't here yet... the 3 of us are the first to get to the gate... everyone else is either stuck in the line for immigration or in the line getting the tax back from their duty free purchases.

That's pretty much it for now... we better get back to Claryse who is minding Alex, Felicia and our bags.


The next time we blog, we'll be in America!

PS I hope you've been getting all my twitters!

This is it!

This is the earliest I can remember getting up in.... a long time. We have to be at the airport by 7am this morning (even though our flight doesn't leave until 10.20am)...

So it's currently 5.14am, I'm eating a banana cos I need to eat something but it's too early to eat a real breakfast, and I'm racking my brain to see if I forgot anything.

It's dark outside, and cold, and this makes me wonder how cold it's going to be in LA... better yet, how cold is it going to be in New York?

I'll answer the first part of that question in, oh about 20 hours. Of course, there's always technical difficulties and apparently my iPhone isn't working properly and international roaming isn't set up like I thought it was, so my updates may not be as frequent as I had hoped.

New York New York

Ok, I have been extremely lax about getting our itineracy up for New York. Here it is although it doesn't have any pretty pictures.

Our journey in pictures

On Friday 10th April, we behind leave this (it will be very early in the morning when we have to be at the airport, so it may well look like this!)



get on board this



14 hours later, we arrive at



and head straight for




The next day, we are heading to




The following day, we are either going to



or




Then, the next day will be spent at



The day after that, we're heading to

Then, a free day before we take over




and the next day, dancing at



Before... the big one... dancing at...



And the next day...



Before... shopping! A bit of respite...

And the next day... back to



And the next day... back to



and again...



and then, again...



Before saying goodbye to LA, getting on board this...

and...



Our first day in the Big Apple will be pretty low key,

but then we'll



and




before doing some tours like this...




seeing these guys...




and of course...

"The New York Bound"

Haylee calls us the "New York Bound"

Photos from our first performance!

We're all going to dance at Disneyland!


These were taken from our first performance last weekend at Edinglassie Retirement Village.

(click photos to make them bigger)









Our opening item - Jazz costume for "Let Me Entertain You"



Our finale - Modern costume for "I Still Call Australia Home"





And... just for fun... Claryse, during our contemporary dance "Fusion" (with Alicia in the background!):