Houston, we have a problem...

Good evening folks, from a pay internet kiosk just outside the Grand Canal Shops here at the Venetian Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, where we may have suffered a major blog malfunction.

Twenty minutes ago, everything was looking OK - we had just finalised our hotel bookings and driving directions for our trip to San Francisco starting tomorrow, and I was just about to start on today's blog entry, when the problem I've been having with the wi-fi connection here at the Venetian struck again, in that the computer shut itself down to safeguard against a system crash, however there was a difference this time - it hasn't fired back up since. Calls have been made to my IT support back in Australia - ie. my brother Daniel - but it looks like the computer can't be fixed without Dan looking at it, short of blowing away the hard drive and starting again, which would knock out all of our photos (which Sarah still has on her camera, thankfully) and all of her iPod songs, so I'm reticent to do that.

What that means, is that I may not have the facilities to continue writing the blog. Thankfully, after tonight we only have three more nights in America, so it's better to have happened now than at the start of the trip. Hopefully, our accommodation from here on in will have some sort of pay internet stations, so we can at least report in to say that all is well and check e-mails, comments etc (so keep commenting folks, we'll still get them)!! Luckily, not much happened today, as we basically had a "shopping" day at the Las Vegas Premium Outlet mall, but Sarah was going to make her blog debut tonight and outline the massage she had today at the Canyon Ranch Spa here at the Venetian (and Mum and Nan, we had the photo of Sarah in the top that you brought her to put up here too)!!

I'm just about out of time here, so I will have to bid you adieu for tonight, and hope that either a miracle happens and the computer regains life (it won't boot up the Windows start-up sequence), or that the Pickwick Hotel in San Francisco can look after us on the internet front. We'll try and get something up here tomorrow night, but I can't vouch for quality or quantity. Until then, folks, we are still both safe and well, so there's nothing to worry about!!