mattandchris

MATT Today we got on the hop on hop off tour bus to ride around Santa Monica, where our hotel is. It took us into Beverley Hills where we walked around a bit. We saw the Beverley Hills shield which is so famous it is copyrighted. We walked along Rodeo Drive, I'm telling you it was like no normal cars allowed. There were Masseratis, Ferraris, Rollers, not to mention the Bughatti in the photo(the fastest legal car you can have on the road.) We then got on the red route bus which took us to Hollywood and we got our first glimpse of the Hollywood sign. We went for a walk around Hollywood Bvd and saw lots of stars that belong to the stars: Michael J Fox, Hugh Jackman, Michael Jackson, Walt Disney, Bugs Bunny, the ... read more

MATTHEW Today we took the Monorail in early. At that time, it was only meant to be for Disney Resort Guests and we weren't Guests and we were about to walk away when the lady at the gate said "Wait, I can make Magic happen" and we were allowed on. When we got into Disneyland we got onto the Finding Nemo ride which is basically just a rip off of the Great Barrier Reef, I didn't enjoy it very much, I guess that's because I've been to the real thing. The guy who was a guide had a really cheesy Australian accent and started using these slogans like "Check ya later" and "G'day mate" and all of these other things. We went on Big Thunder Mountain again which was even funner than I remember because the ... read more

MATTHEW We were back on the bus tours again, except with a different tour guide this time, whose name was Sean. He took us to see the 911 Memorial. The waterfalls sits where the twin towers once stood and they're huge. There were too many names in the memorial. We saw a tree which oddly enough survived the attack, of course it had the old top part of it blown off, but it started to re-sprouted so now you can see a line where the old part is and the new part. In New York they have so many taxis including water taxis - which are boats. We caught one of those and on the way to catch the boat we saw a navy aircraft carrier which was pretty cool. The water taxis took us out ... read more

MATTHEW Today we went on a bus tour with a few of Dad's work friends. Our tour guides name was Eddie and we drove around in a bus and we walked in a park called the High Line which is a wooden walk way built on a disused railway. We went to the Chelsea Meat Packing district and there was big well in the middle of it with water running down it that I couldn't see the bottom of. We saw the last standing part of the Twin Towers complex which was a bronze orb with the top blown off it. The original sculpture was meant to be the world because the twin towers were called the World Trade Centre. After we had lunch at an ice rink at the Rockefeller centre but it is only ... read more

MATTHEW On the second day I woke up covered in red bites and we didn't know what they were. We went to breakfast at a diner. After our breakfast we got on a double decker tour bus which took us around New York. We got off at Battery Park and I got my first look at Lady Liberty. We got tickets for the ferry to go to Liberty Island but the line was miles long so we decided we wouldn't go then as the ticket was valid for fourteen days so we had a while. We walked around up through some markets and down through Wall Street and got some pictures of the Bull statute (the front and behind it). We came to a dock where there were lots of 19th Century iron hulled sailing boats ... read more