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Fancy that no dramas leaving good ole NZ this time, for those first time readers last time we left for an overseas trip we got hauled out from boarding because they found something suspicious in our luggage, a printer, however I digress. Arriving in Hong king airport in fog, it was hard to see many details of the landscape apart from mountains. Breezing through customs, like no check of our baggage at all we couldn’t find our transfer people and I didn’t have the contact details in my hand luggage it was packed away, so I am stressed to the max after a long flight and no sleep, we finally figured out we were in the wrong entry area, for those of you who don’t know HK airport is really really huge, like bigger than a ... read more

Considering we fly out at 9.30 and have to be at the airport at 6.30 we decided to have a quiet day and do a little last minute shopping so it back on a public bus and headed off to Buena Park Mall. It looked great as we passed it the day before but when we got there it was virtually empty, very few shoppers and half of the shops were empty, the recession I guess. We stooged around for a while and then decided this was no good and went back to Anaheim. We then grabbed a cab to the nearest Westfield Mall some 10 minuets and 18.00 dollars away to finish the day. The cabbie we got promised to return and pick us up at 4.00 after telling him how important it was that ... read more

Today it was off for our trip to Hollywood so it was onto the public bus again heading to downtown LA, after a 1.5 hour trip we arrived and started looking for a way out to Hollywood. We started for the subway but on the way found a hop on off bus and jumped on that. We got to Hollywood around 11.00 to be met with the crazy Hollywood locals, guys dressed as Superman, Jack Sparrow and even Darth Vader all looking for money for photos. Mooching around Hollywood Boulevard and the historic Chinese and Kodak theaters was like being the movies. Deciding to jump back on to the bus we headed off towards Beverly Hills along the Sunset strip we finally got to Rodeo Drive and the “posh” part of town, to me it just ... read more

Arriving back at Long Beach around 7.00am we debarked at 10.00 and returned to the states via the gang plank and customs. Finding the luggage was a breeze but getting the shuttle was a little different. As we were going to Anaheim which is about an hours drive from Long Beach the drivers were not too keen and seemed to want the close trips to the airport etc. Finally securing a ride we arrived at the hotel outside Disneyland around 1pm. The Carousel Inn is a small motel type place, clean comfortable with great staff and above all quite cheap for Disneyland. With only a part day left we decided to visit Disneytown, a free entry shopping area adjacent to Disneyland itself. Worth visiting but only for shopping which is sooooo expensive ... read more

Heading on the return leg to Long Beach LA, all there was to do was eat, sit by the pool and drank cocktails. Not much to report. ... read more

Due to drug wars at Mazatlán, our planned stop over was canceled so we spent another day at Cabo San Lucas. We stayed aboard, Bree went to Camp Carnival and yes, we sat by the pool and drank cocktails. ... read more