1. Once more with feelings

Ok, let’s try to do a nice summary of our vacation, day by day. We will try to post as many hints and directions as possible in order to share our “vacation know-how” with you.
My thanks goes to Elena, which wrote the main parts of the events on her diary

30 July 07

Our vacation started early on the morning of the 30th of july, probably the longest day of my entire life. My brain and my body disagree on the exact duration, but it was fun nonetheless.
We started at about 4 in the morning, collecting everybody on our rented car: the flight started from Milan (we live about 150 km West) at 9, so we need to get there really early. It was a good move, because we found almost no one on the check-in queue and we were soon going to have a breakfast. Our Flight company was KLM and were bound to do 3 steps:

1. Milan to Amsterdam
2. Amsterdam to Minneapolis
3. Minneapolis to Seattle

Everything went smooth (even at amsterdam the gate authorities asked us lots of questions, but everything was nice and people were polite) except in Minneapolis. Some of us was held after the document check and was questioned. I think that the guy which was questioning me was a bit too rude but Giovanni was almost accused of being there for illicit activities. We know the difference beetween strict and paranoid and that officer was a bit too much on the wrong side of life. We had to wait nearly 15 minutes for Giovanni, but in the end everything went well and we entered the main section of the airport.

First steps on usa land

We had to wait nearly 2 hours for the last trip, so we took a stroll inside the airport. Me and Maxx were ready to taste the vacation…so we bought a burrito. Each. We were exposed to the lower cost of food which is peculiar of the USA: the burritos were much larger compared to those we are used to eat in italy. Of course they were delicious! We were also amazed to see a statue of Snoopy and an ipod vending machine!

Seattle here we come

The rest of the travel was good and at the airport of seattle we rented the sturdy car which brought us to san Diego: a Toyota Sierra. (here the first picture near the AVIS parking). Of course we rented also a GPS (a Garmin, can’t remember the model)… which was non functional until we got out of the parking. After some wrong turns (Alessandro was driving and even though he is an awesome driver we did a couple of wrong turns before arriving the Inn).

Red roofs inn

This was our first stop: we had 3 bedrooms, with 2 queen beds each, near the airport.

The rooms in the USA are, generally speaking, HUGE compared to our european standards

. Each Queen bed can hold a couple of people. We tried to find a place were to eat a sneak and drink a beer, but everybody was tired and freezing (there were some chilly gusts of wind) so while Nanni, Elena, Ines and Alessandro went to bed, me and max went to… Denny’s! The results were… 2 amazing plates (picture) ! it was a very good start

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