Today was first day in LA. Got free shuttle down to Santa Monica pier from hotel. Lovely wee place! Walked along pier and got breakkie then decided to book a hop on hop off bus tour as LA not very easy to get around! Went round Santa Monica and beverly hills which was good to see and good commentary on the bus! Got off and changed to the Hollywood route, passed many studios then got off at walk of fame. Cool with the Hollywood sign in the background and all the s...

Today was an early start, up and out hotel for 5.30am for our helicopter tour to the grand canyon! Yip we decided to go all out and book a tour to see the sights! Our taxi bus drove to Boulder city, which is about 30 mins for las Vegas. Normally flights go from the strip but the deputy prime minister was coming to Vegas and all flights were grounded, how rude of him making it inconvenient for us! He he! Anyway got to boulder city, got told to wait for the safety ...

Today got up and went to Denny's ( american diner chain) for breakkie! Walked down to the mirage and booked tickets for the Beatles Love Cirque de soleil. Got 40% off so that was a bonus! Think as it was Monday it must not have been busy! Then took a stroll back up the hotel went into m and m shop, coca cola and adidas. Then we decided to get the bus to the fremont st experience. Fiona (graemes mum) had told us to go as there was like a street and was covered and...

Woke up about 9am and started our day by walking around our hotel- jeez oh it took us about an hour, must be about 10 restaurants, big theatre, wedding chapel (which Graeme was staying clear of), pool area, 2 nightclubs, lion habitat and god knows how many puggies and roulette tables and poker/race rooms! the lion habitat was pretty cool they had 37 lions that lived in a habitat about 12 miles away and they brought in 2 of the lions to MGM everyday and all the li...

Today we headed off for our big adventure! Said an emotional goodbye to everyone at the airport - very sad to leave them but the time will fly by! Then flew to heathrow, had a four hour wait which wasn't too bad as fitted in some shopping then boarded our flight to LA. Flight was 11 hours so quite long but managed to keep ourselves entertained with films, music and sleeping! Got to LA ( 3.05 pm local time, 11.05pm our time) and it was mayhem! Queues everywhere an...