Rosie, Wednesday 20th - Venice, much like Portsmouth

Wednesday morning we had a long chat with mum and dad, mumjo and Milly. It was a real treat to see our new inlaws together. After all these years of living in sin I think they were all relived we had finally made things legal - I know none of them had approved.

Before that we had had a buffet breakfast the likes.of which none of us had ever seen before. We all had several visits, Justin enjoyed having roast potatoes and two.tupes of bacon for his first course, but dibs won with his breakfast of noodles and pizza. Gina and I found a serve yourself mr whippy style icecream station, and Emma almost definitely didn't fill her bag up with pastries..

After chatting we were supposed to go outlet mall shopping, but were running late for a very important date.. We got a taxi (I know, how dull right?) to the car hire centre by the airport to.collect our convertablr 2013 MUSTANG!! The man at the desk said we could choose which colour we had, which was exciting, especially because we'd really had our hearts set on a bright red one. Sadly we got to the car pick up place and they had two to choose from, both grey. The man saw my dissapointed face and radioed downstairs to see if they had a red one. They did and it is beautiful! George did some very good driving back to the hotel. We were all set for Thursday and to start our honeymoon tour of California.

Our last night was spent having dinner the Venetian, which reminded me a lot of Portsmouth, much like the real Venice does. The Venetian was mental, they must have spenta fortune building it - all the canals going round thw outside and through the inside of the hotel. There were gondolas with gondoleers singing as they took tourists round. There were also people putside who you could get your photo taken with dressed in traditional costumes, only with fairy lights added and there were a couple riding around on segways made to look Venetian with speakers on the backs.

I'm pretty sure this last bit is some kind of metaphor for Vegas as a whole, but I can't come up with any pithy witticism so you'll have to add your own.