Today was a day of walking down the strip visiting all the casinos and seeing the things we haven’t seen yet. Also bought tickets to see a magic show and to see the Maddum Tussauds wax museum. The casinos we visited with a little comment for each were - The Wynn: very fancy and upper class. - The Venetian: nice place with gondolas out the front (like Venice). Shopping area inside has a high roof with a sky and clouds painted on it. Very realistic and different - Tropicana: pretty old. Went to Dirk Arthur Extreme Magic Show. He it was [View Full Entry]

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Got up relatively early at 9.30 and headed to another factory outlet at the other end of the strip. Was not as good as yesterdays one- just bought and extra suitcase to take home all the stuff we bought. So we lefty fairly early and decided to walk back down the strip to our hotel. We walked in a few more Casinos and had a look. Lots of cool stuff and free shows. Then we came across my favorite shop 'M&M World'. It was great- 4 levels. Everything you can think off- as M&M merchandise. Level 3 had a 3D show [View Full Entry]

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Started the day today going to the Factory Outlet shopping center. Arrived at 11am. Omigod - it was the best. Started at the Nike store and I just went crazy. It was great. Bought heaps, got a pair of Nike Shox runners for $29 ($250 back home). I could of spent the night here. Anyway after a few glares from Benn we paid for our stuff and moved on. Bought a pair of Levi's for $24 and a few other odd things. There was just not enough time to see everything. Anyway the day was flying by and it was New [View Full Entry]

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Viva Las Vegas - here we come! Caught a plan at 11am from San Diego to Las Vegas. Arrived at 12pm and waited an hour and a half for our luggage to finally come of the luggage carousal. Jumped on our transfer to our Hotel- Circus Circus. This was not like any other hotel it was massive. Like a big Crown casino. At our hotel is a massive casino, amusement park, restaurants, night clubs, theater shows and finally accommodation. We walked in to the casino- it was so busy. Very crazy. We checked in out our gear down and head down [View Full Entry]

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Today we went to the "World Famous San Diego Zoo". We started on a tour of the Zoo which took us around to each area. It was a big place with lots of types of animals and beautiful gardens. It is actually listed as botanical gardens. So we walked around and saw lots of animals. There were apparently 4000 animals there from 800 species. You would see a big but there would by 10 varieties and the same for monkeys, dears etc. We actually saw a dear just after it was born. (An hour old). It was tiny and struggling to [View Full Entry]

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Wow! Interesting day. Today was the day of the Holiday Bowl- big Gridiron match for the holidays. Kinda like our old State of Origin. Benn tried for a few days and we finally got some tickets to go! The game started at 5pm. It was a huge event- everyone was talking about it. So the day started with a Balloon Parade in Downtown San Diego. So we headed down at 10am and sat and watched the parade. It was awesome. Just what u see on TV or the movies. Like hot air balloons expect shaped as different things and characters which [View Full Entry]

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Today was our day out at San Diego Sea World. This day was also the coldest and windiest day we have come across. We were not prepared for it as it was a sunny day yesterday so we thought the same and wore thongs and a light weight jumper- big mistake. Anyway so the day consisted of visiting the marine life of sea worlds some animals we had seen before in Gold Coast's Sea World and some we have not. We went to a killer whale show- there for 4 killer whales but they have the show focused on one - [View Full Entry]

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Left Anaheim at 9am this morning and got on the transfer bus to San Diego, got here bout 10.30am. Checked in our luggage and went out to explore San Diego. In the following days we will visit San Diego Zoo, San Diego Sea World and go down to Tijuana Mexico. So today was a cruisy day looking around San Diego. We walked down to the local shopping centre (Westfield I think- yay). It was like southland but all outside- I liked it. So all the 'After Xmas Sales' (aka Boxing Day sales) were on. But and yes can u believe we [View Full Entry]

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For your xmas and our xmas eve (24th Dec) we went to Disneyland - California Adventure Park. This is just across the road from Disneyland and is what we basically think a continuation of Disneyland (which didn’t fit on the original land) across the road which they can also charge for. So at this Disneyland we went on all the rides. Our favorites were the rocket or something which was like the giant drop but opposite- you shoot up into the air. We did the standard roller coaster etc. The best was the Haunted Hollywood Hotel where you went into this [View Full Entry]

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Got up at 9 am today. We had a big catch up sleep and now feel heaps better. Wow! Another long long day. Disneyland just never ends. Well basically there are two parks. Disneyland and Disneyland California Adventure. Today we went to Disneyland. We walked in at 10am and it was packed. Soo many people and kids and heaps of strollers. There was so much to do we didn’t know where to start. We found that the most popular rides had fast track cards where you are given a card with a specific hour to come back and you will go [View Full Entry]

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