We picked up our car from San Fran airport and headed off on our road trip, first stop was Santa Cruz, brief stop and lunch then back down the 101 to Santa Barbara, the town of Santa Barbara is very cute, we parked up and walked down the pier, then we headed about 10mins down the road to Carpintera where we stayed the night, in the morning we got up and went for a run to the beach to check it out, then back to the motel to get on with the road trip.
We drove from carpintera down the 101 through Los Angeles into Las Vegas where it was insane hot. Got to Vegas about 3/4pmish checked into hotel. We went for a swim in our pool looking up at the Eiffel tower, best hotel of the trip for sure! Phil and Tanya then dropped Anna off at 7pm as she was joining us on this part of our trip. We then went to the naked and famous (NZ band) at the cosmopolitan then met up with Lucy, Char, Jess, Abbie and Katie (camp friends), went to Bellagio water show and to another bar then headed home.
Next day we wondered the strip, Planet Hollywood, New York New York, MGM went into all the casinos checked them all out, was insanely hot though. We went to Caesars palace for a swim. We went out that night to Treasure island show and checked out the venetian met up with the girls from camp again then met with Rach and Si friends and went to the rock bar then home.
Next day we pool hopped, started at the Paris, then to planet Hollywood, then the flamingo. Back to the hotel to get ready to go to the lion king, we walked all the way to the Mandalay bay took like an hour and it was so hot, but the show was amazing amazing, we were able to check out the Luxor while we were down there as well.
Next morning we got up super super early to check out of the Paris and get our bus tour to the grand canyon, we stopped off at Hoover dam first which is huge!!! Then out to the Grand Canyon, the photos don’t show how insanely giant and amazing it really is. We walked around the south rim for an hour or two then back on the bus for a long drive back to Vegas, we then checked into our next hotel summer bay resort, which was like a time share kind of thing, we had a full kitchen and laundry room within our room which was great.
Saturday we got the bus to the outlet mall and then back to the pool at the hotel, we got some food from target and had a little Vegas family dinner in our room. Left the next morning at about 11am to get the bus to la before we left, I hadn’t gambled the hole time we were in Vegas and we had some time to kill before the bus so I went into Bally’s and found a 25c machine so I put my $1 in and tried my luck first two nothing on the third try Rach got really excited and I thought yay I must have won, then we see it had gone up to $40, I immediately got my cash, then went and bragged to Anna and Si haha, then it was on the bus to Los Angeles!
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