The remainder of the holiday was somewhat of a blur. Around lunchtime we arrived back in California, but didn’t reach our hotel in Pasadena until gone 3pm.

Once checked in there was no time to rest. We had to collect our suits, wash, rehearse the wedding a few times and then have a meal with other keys members of the wedding party and families. Phew!

The day of the wedding was, er, rather stressful. All turned out lovely in the end though!

Rather more pomp and ceremony than I’m used to over here – walking in and around on cue, all lined up in a rather questionable pyramid shape but hey, each to their own. In any case, Robin looked rather chuffed and that’s what we all came  to see. :)

At the reception venue the drink had started to flow. It was time for us Brits to show these cowboys how it’s done. Hmm.

The next day we had a lovely brunch and Jamie’s parents and wished Robin and Jamie farewell.

Once that was done, I just crashed. I hadn’t realised how tired I was! I just had to sleep, but the others went out to explore Hollywood, and Di took these photos:

On Sunday, our final full day in America, we went to Universal Studios.

It proved to be a great day out – an amazing mix of a theme park and a behind the scenes look at some movie work.

I got a couple of very bad shots of one of the Lions and one of the Deloreans from Back to the Future.

I got a really good photo of the crashed 747 that is used in the ‘War of the Worlds’ film featuring Tom Cruise.

So, the end of a great experience was finally with us. My only regret is that I never got to sample an American curry with Robin while I was there – we missed a great opportunity!