mattandchris

The first full day of our safari stared with a wake- up call at 5:30 then some tea and coffee before our morning safari and we saw Impala, again, and again, and again. Then Elvis spotted some Leopard tracks and started to track the Leopard through a donga, a river bed, there was some really serious 4-wheel driving. While Sean and Elvis tracked the illusive Leopard we saw a dazzle of Zebra, a herd of Elephant, Kudu, an e agle owl, a Bataleur eagle, various types of buck before finally finding the Leopard named as Scotia’s daughter, who was just lazing in the grass, but everyone was still really excited. Then Chris and I went for a swim but no diving catches this time, too many people. So we got out pretty quickly and then went ... read more

Yesterday we were going to catch the train to Pretoria, South Africa’s capital, but to do that we had to find the station, so with dud confident that he could take us to the station direct, we wondered through the streets in circles for half an hour until dud swallowed his pride and asked for directions. From the station we caught the train to Pretoria and set off from the station to find the parliament house, and lo, more wandering under the guidance of the great dud. Then he again relented and we caught the bus back to the train station were we got a taxi to monument hill from there we climbed the 500 steps up to the top were I looked town and my legs literally turned to jelly as the marble floor made ... read more

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