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Ben & Sara's Trip
Thursday we had booked a tour to Universal Studios and so we were up early ish again and on a bus outside the Hostel heading off to Hollywood. Universal is no where near as big as Disneyland but it is almost as impressive. We started the day doing the Shrek 4-D experience which was brilliant, although getting soaked evry time Donkey sneezed was a bit gross!! We then did the Studio Tour which took us out onto the backlot of the actual studio where they film CSI and various others! From there we went Back To The Future on a simulator chasing Biff through various ages, really cool!! One of the highlights was definitely the Waterworld show, not a great movie but an amazing show!! Full of Pyrotechnics and hammy acting!! We then headed down to the Lower Lot where we went on the Jurassic Park log flume which was incredible, so good we went straight back on it!! The best part of Universal was that there was hardly anyone there so we did everything we wanted to do and didn't queue that much at all!! We had an absolutely fantastic day there.
Friday we headed across to Santa Monica to look round the shops, first off we headed to the Pier and had a walk along there. From there we headed to Santa Monica Boulevard and the 3rd Street Promenade which was full of very expensive shops that neither of us could afford to shop in!! It was a really cool place to be and the weather for the last few days in the US weas really kind to us.
We had to check out of the hotel on Saturday at 11am and our flight wasn't until 21.30 so it was a bit of a pain in the arse and meant we spent a lot of time milling around the hostel reading and stuff before we got the bus to LAX.
The flight to Auckland was 13 hours and was a bit of a killer, especially as I didn't really sleep, it's also messed us up a bit in that we left at 21.30 on Saturday and arrived at 8.20 Monday so we lost an entire day with the time zones, a bit freaky!! Anyway we are currently in Christchurch trying to recover from the flight in a really nice hostel and we pick the campervan up on Wednesday and head off to see the Trickster and the rest of New Zealand.
Hope your all well
Lots of Love
Ben and Sara x
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