On our last day in Hollywood we finished off the last few things on our LA bucket list. We tried to book rush tickets to see The Ellen Show tape live, but there was no chance. It’s a bummer, as we registered months in advance but they don’t accept anyone from outside the US unless […]
Read more "Last Day in Hollywood"Wary of crowds, we arrived at Disneyland when it opened. Partly thanks to their Fast Pass system (where you can be in line without standing in line), we found the queues quite manageable. Unsurprisingly, our favourite things at Disneyland were all in the new park – California Adventure. It seems aimed at an older demographic. […]
Read more "Disneyland"Las Vegas is exactly what it looks like in the movies. I wouldn’t wanna live there, but it was great fun for five nights. It’s probably the only place we visited that seemed better for having the Spring Break crowds. Though unfortunately that meant there weren’t any of the $25 hotel rooms Vegas is known […]
Read more "What happens in Vegas…"After the drama with the car keys, it was 4:30 when we finally got on the road to Vegas. Paul read Walt Whitman aloud to pass the time. It was still snowing like crazy, which made driving scary but photos awesome. We passed an accident that had just happened, when a woman spun out of […]
Read more "The dramatic road to Vegas"Today I learned that it really sucks to lock your keys in the car. Especially when you’re in the middle of nowhere. In a snowstorm. What the car looked like about an hour earlier when we went to pack it. I was dumb enough to not just lock my keys in my car, no I […]
Read more "Life Lesson #9 – Locked Out"The Grand Canyon is amazing. So amazing that even though it was too cloudy to see the sunset at all, we were still blown away. Our mascot, Diego (a wooden turtle we got in Mexico), poses in front of the Grand Canyon. After sunset, we ate at a stereotypical, but genuine, Steakhouse, then headed back […]
Read more "The Grand Canyon"To say we slept badly in our car parked outside the Wickenburg Inn would be an understatement. Apparently deserts get really cold at night, who knew? (ok, we may have had some idea). We slept in our leather jackets and were glad that we had nicked the Qantas pillows and blankets from our flight to […]
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