Friday was Universal Studios and an evening tour of Hollywood. Up nice and early again we found out that our bus driver Charles was a real hoot, he knew heaps about LA and spent our entire trip to Universal explaining everything from the theme parks down to the roads and pointing out all the spectacular tyre marks from all the accidents on the highway. Universal was pretty cool but not quite as grand as I expected. We only went on a few of the bigger rides an went to most of the shows. Shrek 4D was really good, and they have [View Full Entry]

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Hi all, Well I made it safely to LA where Rob was waiting patiently for me - my flight had been delayed by 3.5 hours so that was a bit of a pain for both of us. I had the worst flight I'd ever had as my head cold is horrendous and I can't take decongestants due to being pregnant. So the airplane air made my head feel like it was going to explode. I was lucky enough to get a row of 4 seats to myself so I could lie down but every time I'd fall asleep I'd wake myself [View Full Entry]

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Check out the pics! [View Full Entry]

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Well surprise surprise we've got behind with the blogs again so catch up time.......... After another rude customs inspector we finally made it back to LA and jumped on the first bus that came along to get us to the bus station where we needed to get another to our hostel in Hollywood. By pure chance Gra got chatting to an american guy who offered to give us a lift to the hostel rather than have to take the bus which would take over an hour. We pondered it for a second remembering all those childhood memories of being told [View Full Entry]

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Hello all. Sorry it's been so long since writing. Alot has happened in the past few days as well as last weeks. We are safely in L.A, arrived on tues 20th, going back in time for us from Fiji...very confusing. Not managed to change our ticket for Costa Rica until the 26th so we are tightly scrimping in the U.S until we go. Fiji was amazing. Not sure how much i got to write on the shorter blog but the highlight for us was staying on an island (Waya) where we met these 11 missionaries who were staying there for a [View Full Entry]

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Us again. We've spent the last 5 days in Hollywood. The weather is still red hot. 39 degrees all week. It's a great city but very dangerous. We had to come back to the hotel before dark because the streets can be very dodgy at night even though we stopped in Beverly Hills. We haven't seen any famous people we know but did see someone getting out of a car with loads of paparazzi swarming around her. Hollywood boulevard is great. It's got loads to do including the walk of fame and the Kodak theatre, the place where the Oscars are [View Full Entry]

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Crossed both the Equator and the International Dateline on our 9 hour flight from Fiji to Los Angeles. We left Nadi at 2300hrs only to arrive in Southern California at 1300hrs on the same day, 10 hours before we left Fiji. Quite weird!! Up until now we've always been in front of GMT but now we're 8 hours behind. Our destination in LA was the USA Hostel in the heart of Hollywood. This was practically the only accommodation we'd booked before we left home. 7 nights in a private ensuite room for 380 dollars. From LA airport, known as LAX, we [View Full Entry]

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So after a month in NZ, it was off to Fiji to begin the final month of our trip. Fiji was just total paradise. Our first few days we spent on a tiny island that you could walk around in 5 mins (yes, we timed it!). The weather was incredibly hot, so after 45 mins in the sun you just had to jump into the sea for a spot of snorkelling over all the coral reef. It's a hard life! Waking up to find a lizard in my hair was also a lot fun one night! But hey, thats the price [View Full Entry]

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todo todo [View Full Entry]

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Backpackers Paradise & Inglewood Our flight from Las Vegas was booked for what i thought (Sian) was 9.30am but when i re-checked the flight details i realised i actually booked the flights for 9.30pm, Jav was pretty ok with me considering we had to wait all day. Anywho, we booked that nights bed so we had somewhere to rest without a hassle. We got to LAX, got our bags (second time there and as we are now pros at airports, we were out pretty darn quick!) and headed for the shuttle which, was provided free from our 'Backpackers Paradise' Hostel. [View Full Entry]

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