Went to bed by about 5:30am, was quite prepared to sleep in until Laurens decides she cant sleep and knocks on our door at 9:30. Went to get out of the bed to open the door only to remember that i had wreaked my knee only a few hours earlier. We eventually, got up, had a shower and we stumbled out to Burger King for brunch. Waited in line for 20minutes and still didnt learn my lesson that spicey food and hangovers DO NOT go well together!! They guys were gonna get on the cable car to go to the French [View Full Entry]

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Temp: 34°C - muggy Day 34 started early, we had to have bags to coach by 7:45 so breakfast was a muslibar. We drove for about an hour before a quick restroom stop then jumped back on the bus for about another 2hrs or so (in which christina put on the DVD Walk the Line because of where we went yesterday) to our lunch break stop. We stopped in Jackson, the capital of Mississippi, they had a groceries store, hairdresser but the best thing was a deli. Yay, something semi healthy for lunch! I got a chicken ceaser wrap, it was [View Full Entry]

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Temp: 27°C - muggy tho. Today we had to be at the coach by 8:30am for our trip out to Graceland. We arrived and jumped on a shuttle over to Elvis's Graceland Mansion. It was such a pretty house. All the inside was still set up as it originally was when he was there, the jungle room, the trophy room, even his parents bedroom. We weren't allowed on the 2nd floor as Elvis never let anyone up there when he was alive so they have decided to keep it that way in his memory. Apparently he bought the house and land [View Full Entry]

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Temp: 35°C Day 32 - We had to have bags to the bus by 7:45am. One of the girls slept in therefore we didnt end up leaving til 8. We got on our way. We passed though a little town called Hope in which Bill Clinton grew up. and reached the border of Texas and Arkansas, Texarkana. We made a quick stop, took a photo straddling the border and moved a little bit further into the town for lunch. We had KFC (FYI, here its actually still written on the sign as Kentucky Fried Chicken). We got left standing in the [View Full Entry]

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Temp: 35°C Day 31 once again started with very little sleep. We had an optional trip this morning for a drive out to Fort Worth, Texas. There was prob only about 20 of us that showed up, as tired as i was i figured i wouldnt get a chance to do this again any time soon so why waste my day in bed. It was about a half hour drive out there anyway on which we got to spread out on the seats and sleep anyway. We arrived in what was kind of like an old cowboy town that you see [View Full Entry]

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Temp: 36°C Day 30 we got up early (what a surprise) after just a few hours sleep (no surprise there either) to head for Dallas, Texas. On the way we stopped at a lil town called Childress, Texas. When we drove into the town we noticed that there was debris and crap everywhere, and some of the buildings were quite damaged. Turns out, the night before, less than 2 hrs from where we stayed the night a tornado had gone through the place, we grabbed some food for brekkie and got back on the bus for another 2 hr drive before [View Full Entry]

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Temp: 34°C After not getting to sleep til just before, day 29 started way too early!! as we were in the Hot Air ballooning capital of the world we were to meet at 5:30am to catch the a mini bus out to some paddock to go hot air ballooning! So we got our lil buses and waited for the balloons to be set up. Two of the boys got to help blow the balloon up which was cool. After a lil bit it was up and the 11 people in our group hopped into the basket. Before we knew it we [View Full Entry]

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Temp: 34°C Day 28 started earlyish again, up at 6:30 for shower and brekkie (which today included waffles, toast and juice). We were on the bus by 7:45 (neally left Sampson behind in the room, he was not happy!) and we headed bound for Durango, Colorado. We were to meet a photographer at 9:00am for our first group photo with a pretty cool Rocky mountains backdrop. Then headed back to the town to meet the people to take us Whitewater Rafting. There was about 30 of us doing that, about 15 people doing an off-road jeep tour and a handful that [View Full Entry]

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Temp: 39°C Day 27 started early, up at 6:45am after only just over 3 hrs sleep! once again, not pretty! We stopped off at one more spot after leaving the lodge to take some pics at a lookout. Sampson made another appearance, getting his photo taken for his Adventures of Sampson. Sampson has also made a new friend on the bus, his name is Jock and he is a Tiger from Vegas (one of the boys, Nathan won him on some kiddy game). They are the new mascots of Contiki Grand Southern 2009. We stopped off at Kayenta, Arizona for some [View Full Entry]

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Temp: 41°C Day 26 started not too early. The others were doing the helicopter flight over the Grand Canyon, as i already did that 2 and abit weeks ago i gave it a miss, got up at 8:50, got ready and made my way to meet one of the other girls, Kate, who was also not doing it. We caught the bus and got off at the Yavapai Observation Station to take some photos and jumped back n the next bus bound for Maswick Lodge. Got off for brekkie (which was free!), it consisted of Scrambled eggs, bacon, an english muffin [View Full Entry]

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