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 the strip. Started off at a half price show tickets van and got some tickets to the 'Beach Boys'. Love the Beach Boys so I was excited. We headed down the strip and as it ... read more

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 are carried down a main strip with marching bands inbetween them. So this was very exciting start to the day. Next we ventured down to Tijuana (which is actually Mexico- just cross the American Boarder). ... read more

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 didn’t buy anything!!! Benn got over the shopping quickly ( I could of went all day), so we jumped on the 'trolley' (aka train) and headed Downtown San Diego. Here we walked around, found another ... read more

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 to the front of the line. However only one fast track card would be given out each hour, so we couldn’t just collector them all and go back. Otherwise the wait was as long as ... read more

Another long long day, going to bed late and getting up early is starting to take a toll on us. Today we went to Universal Studios (bit like Movie World). We paid an extra $20 to get front of the line passes, which literally took you to the front of the line for each ride or show, it was great, no lining up! The pass also included behind the scenes after each show, where they explain how things were done and you can meet the actors and have a photo- which I enjoyed. We did the usual stuff, a studio tour. The tour visited the set of Desperate Housewives "Wisteria Lane', the Psycho 'Bates Hotel', the Back to the Future town hall and numerous other film and TV locations. There were a few shows, Animals in ... read more