Today was our big driving day. We left Vegas around 7:45 and got to Yosemete around 6:45. As I said... big driving day. We had several stops along the way. Once place was factory outlets in the middle of nowhere and that was great fun. Lots of shopping. Bought some Guess Jeans and Top about half the price or possibly even 1/3 then your would get them at home. When we got to Yosemete we checked in and then walked up the road to town for our included pizza dinner. The food was demolished fairly quickly. Nothing really goes on in town. Pretty much went to bed and watched tv. ... read more

Drove to Vegas. :) We traveled along Historic Route 66 with some stops along the way. The first one was a little town where the movie "cars" was based around. It had some quirky stuff like "road kill cafe" and Arizona jail etc. The historic route 66 sign was about a 10 min walk out of town so I didn't go there to get photos but a few people did. Our hotel/motel was down the end of the strip near Hooters. Reports from past travellers all say the hotel is very basic but it was fine. We were never there anyway. It was very hot. We got ready to hit the town, black dresses and all. Everyone dressed up tonight. We got a tour of the strip from the bus from one end to the other. ... read more

It was so good to wake up today and not be hung over. Especially after yesterdays efforts. Hot air ballooning was on this morning with a very early wake up of i think around 4am. I did not do it, Cat did though and really enjoyed it. Some people who were out drinking last night pulled an all righter not sleeping before ballooning. 3 others missed the optional from sleeping in after their night out. That would suck because its an expensive optional to miss. The drive to Grand Canyon was pretty cool. Awesome scenery and cool little towns. Main stop was Sedona. I think almost all of us did the options red rock jeep ride. It was really awesome - totally recommend it. We got taken off road and through the red rocks of Sedona. ... read more

Cat was a bit worse for wear this morning and our 'guest' was still sleeping too so I left them alone and went to have breakfast myself, meeting others from tour in the kitchen. After breaky Cat was still struggling so was going to make her own way to the zoo. I went in with Contiki and Barb, Jo, Donny & Tanya all explored the zoo together. We totally sucked at trying to find our way around. Our goal was the Pandas & tigers and despite us following, or trying to follow the signs, it still took us lots of other exhibits before we found what we were looking for. The zoo was great. I'm glad we chose to to both the Zoo and Seaworld. A male orangutan was right up the front of the glass. ... read more

Today was Disneyland :) We planned to leave 7:30 am and be there when the park opened at 8:00 but as per usual we stuffed around and ended up going later then planned arriving at Disneyland just before 9:00 am. We headed straight for Indiana Jones ride, which was totally awesome. It indicated a 25 minute wait but it moved really quick. I don't think we waited 25 minutes. If we did it sure did not seem that long. The que is really interesting anyway and sets the mood with tribal stuff and cave and bones. Really good special effects. We went on the ride 3 times, one time riding shotgun which was great. After that we did pirates of the Caribbean - amazing. The characters have all been done up to match Johnny Deep and ... read more