Arriving in US

Despite Pete setting his alarm for 2 50am, and us having spent all week planning, it was still a mad dash for us to catch our flight. We panicked when uber wouldn't work and wondered if we were mad sat in Bristol coach station in the early hours of the morning with more luggage than we could carry. 

But the flight was awesome, it was the first British Airways service to ever fly to Oakland, the flight was empty, the staff were great and the baby slept for most of the journey. There was a welcoming committee, complete with Union Jack and a film crew!

We were delighted when our last piece of luggage arrived onto the carousel. It didn't arrive with the other luggage, someone had already been to check the hold and we were sat discussing what paperwork needed to be filled out and how long it was likely to take!

We picked up our hire car and gave ourselves one night in Oakland to recover. Chicken and waffles was our first taste of America and noisy Amtrak trains running down the main road outside the hotel!