Hi everyone!! Just a quick blog to check in with you all. We flew into Austin this morning, what a horrendous night of travelling! 3 hours layover in Houston after 2.5 hours in the smallest plane ever!! Then a 24 minute (yes 24 minute!) flight from Houston to Austin. Just to add to the travelling we had an hour and ten minute bus to our hotel where we are going to chill out by the pool for the rest of the day. Scotty didn't sleep a wink last night and Annie had about 2 hours so we want to recover for a full day tomorrow. In spite of the looooong journey, our first impressions of Austin are good so far! We'll tell you all about it in tomorrow's blog! We're 6 hours behind now instead of ... read more

Today we finaaallyyy had a relaxing day in Vegas, well kind of. We began with a yummy breakfast from Denny’s diner (so yummy we had to take a picture!) then made our way down to the Paris hotel.After a snoop around we headed back to our pool for a well needed relax and a swim. After a Mexican dinner we went to see the last of the shows – The Bellagio fountain, part of the Mirage volcano and the Treasure Island pirate show. Nothing beats the fountains! The pirate show….slightly x-rated and o.t.t – maybe not worth being sardined in a crowd exchanging sweat with other people but at least we can say we saw it!! Annie will be relieved to leave the scorching desert for Austin tomorrow night, Scotty is really going to miss Vegas ... read more

Today we learnt that it takes a looong time to walk through each hotel!! We explored the Mandalay Bay, Excalibur, Luxor, MGM and New York New York which all have impressive architecture. The day was nearly over before we realised though! Despite eating a banana first thing after concerns from our mums to eat some fruit at some point…Scott then had two slices of pizza for breakfast…Buuuuut! We had some frozen yoghurt instead of ice cream, it was delicious!!! Cake batter flavour – hominy hominy :) We’ve been looking for a show to watch while we’re here and were chuffed to find the jabbawockeez were performing at Monte Carlo. For those of you who don’t know they are an amazing dance group, youtube them! They were awesome! Funny and so creative! Unfortunately we couldn’t take pictures ... read more

After an extended journey, due to the bus breaking down near Death Valley (we were told last week we’d only have two hours to live if this happened there) we finally arrived in Vegas at 7 o’clock and it was still 42 degrees! We have already found out in our short time here, it was well worth the journey! Our room is luxury, and at only £15pp a night you’ll see from the pictures it was a bargain! We haven’t seen further than Fremont Street and already we love it (don’t think Scotty will want to leave with the live DJ’s and party atmosphere, it’s right up his street!) We’ve been wowed already and we’ve only been here for three hours, hence the lack of photos. But seriously, waw!!! This place is better than we ever ... read more

We didn’t do so bad today considering we travelled through the night on a bus. Annie was drugged up on nytol, equipped with ear plugs and an eye mask so snored most of the way while Scotty struggled to get comfy. However, after a burger king at 3:45a.m, Augustus managed to get some sleep. It was already different to San Fran with the sweltering heat, California is having a heat wave :) While Scotty is in his element, Annie, being from the valleys, is not coping well with all the walking! After a quick change in the hotel we headed off to Hollywood and boy was that different to Downtown LA. The Hollywood sign looked strange from so far away after seeing it so big on tv but it was still awesome to see. The walk ... read more