Wednesday 8th August After a crazy 36 hours in man made wonders of Vegas we set out to see some natural wonders which started in the National Parks of Utah. When we first thought it was just full of Mormans and little else but we were very wrong. The beauty started at Zion National Park where after paying $12 each entrance fee we hiked to three emerald pools. The hike was hot and the dust left your mouth dry. Unfortunately we were not allowed to swim in the pool...

Monday 6th August We headed to Las Vegas on the Highway 15 from LA. The trip is just short of 300 miles and the scenery turns to desert pretty quickly. Having night stopped in our car at a rest stop just out of Barstow we hit the strip around breakfast time. With an hour to spare on arrival until our room was ready we cruised up and down the Las Vegas Blvd in search of a healthy breakfast. We settle for Krispy Kreme donuts within the castle hotel/casino known as...

Sat 4th Aug - We finished woodward and managed to get a lift from a pro skateboarder called Benji all the way to LA. We hung out with him that evening and let him show us some sites of LA. He first took us to a Vietnamese resturant where he paid for us to try Pho - A beef and noodle soup and we finished it up with an iced Vietnamese coffee that gave us the buzz for the evening that we didn't forsee... Benji then got a call from some friends who invited him to a ...

Last summer Maz made frinds with some Coloradians who she visited and stayed in contact with. Therefore it was little surprise that we swung by Durango to see them again. We met her friend Daniel Finn at the Boarding Hous where he works, picked up some food from the supermarket and heading back to his house on the highway where we were to stay for 5 nights. Having eaten dinner we took it in turns to scrub the last few days crud off ourselves in the shower. We w...

(message from pez) Four days left at Woodward! We had fun/pain today at the pool playing on the log roll (see pics). Maz got good at staying on the rotating log and her record was about 7 seconds. I made the error of seeing if I could cross the log by only putting one foot on the log and sort of hopping across. This all ended badly and I scraped my shin as I fell into the water. It didn't hurt much, but there was blood. We rushed to the trainer - Jason (after tak...