Temp: 105°F - 40.5°C Day 5 - Blaahhhhh continued. I woke up, repacked my bag and checked out just after 11am. Feeling slightly sleepy and a lil unwell we ventured up to Harrahs to Madame Tussauds Wax Museum. Here we were greeted by a figure of Michael Jackson out the front the was surrounded by tributes. Inside we found Paris Hilton, Beyonce, Snoop Dogg, Tiger Woods, Oprah, Hugh Hefner and Johnny Depp, just to name a few. Oh, and i married George Clooney (ull see photos either when i get this thing working or when i get home). After this we [View Full Entry]

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Temp: 106°F - 41.1°C Day 4 started later. Soph let me sleep until 10:50am coz it was the first night sleep id had since id been there (i resorted to veryyyyyyyy basic sleeping pills from the chemist!) Anyway, got up and left the apartment by just before midday. We jumped on the Duece (bus company that is $7 for a 24hr pass (and yes, the bus runs alllll night here) to head out to the outlets. On the way we stopped off at the food warehouse thing where basically u can get a really good meal for next to nothing (combined [View Full Entry]

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Temp: Bloody hot!! Day 3 was an early one. Not only hadn't i slept in about 4 days (nope, not even a minute sleep last night!) we also had to be out the front of our hotel by 6:20am to be picked up for our Grand Canyon West Rim Tour. I t didnt seem to take too long to get out there and we stopped off for some photos at the Hoover dam on the way out. We past a few towns with nothing in them and then through the Joshua Tree Forest before arriving at the West Rim. We were [View Full Entry]

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Temp: Bloody hot!! Day 2 didnt start out so well as though even though id had about 5 hrs sleep in the previous 48 hours, i still couldnt sleep! i added mayb about 3hrs onto that with last night. Soldiering on, we were up at 10ish as karen wanted to catch the bus out to a place called 'Fryers' whcic kinda like harvey norman but better and bigger. this was beecause even tho her mobile was working in Auckland it had decided it wasnt going to here. So we were in search of either some help or an alternative. Here we [View Full Entry]

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Temp: 101°F The first day was a veryyyyy long (thanks to crossing the international date line) and drama filled day. Where to begin. Firstly, while sitting at the airport waiting to leave melbourne i discovered that my little laptop that i specifically bought to bring with me wasn't working. Then, we realised that Karen and i had been seated sepately in the plane! We were the 3rd bunch of people to check in and we checked in together, and the stupid women went and sat us apart!!! Then we had a stopover in Auckland only to discover that when i tried [View Full Entry]

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