Part 2
San Diego & Las Vegas
Yay, lets keep going with the report! Cause you know what comes after Las Vegas on our trip? Disney World! Yahooooo!
So we drove from Los Angeles to San Diego in our Cruiser, which only took about 3 hours. When we got there we had to drop off our little blue Cruiser to the hire car place, since we wouldnt be using it anymore. I was so sad to say goodbye to our cute little car!
But first we had to fill it up with gas and we couldnt work out how! When we did it last time, we just paid more for the garage attendant to do it. Seriously, its much trickier in America than Australia!! Ha! Anyway, you know what? San Diego has lots of NICE people!!
A guy in his early 20s who was also filling up his car saw us struggling with the gas pump, so he came over and offered to help. Which was nice enough, but then when our Australian credit cards wouldnt work in the machine on the gas pump, he offered to pay for our fuel, too!!! Augh! So nice! We wouldnt let him, of course, but wow! What a nice guy!
And then when we eventually returned our car, we asked the nice lady in the hire car place if we could use her phone to call for a taxi, and she said, Dont do that! Ill just drive you to your hotel! So she did! She closed the hire car place, we all hopped in her car, and she drove us to our hotel! It was only 10 minutes away, but wow!! So many nice people in San Diego!!
We stayed at the DoubleTree in San Diego, which was actually really, really nice. And you know what? After 8 days of non-stop sight-seeing and driving, we were tired. Really tired. Especially after flying for 14 hours and never really resting afterward. So in San Diego, we rested!! We swam in the hotel pool, and slept in late, and drank lots of cocktails! It was really our vacation part of our trip.
Heres me sipping a late-night Grasshopper cocktail by the poolside firepits! Nice!
We did go into the centre of San Diego a couple of times, but really just to shop and eat at restaurants. Looking back, we kinda feel bad that we didnt actually see much of San Diego (not even a beach!), but at the time, we were exhausted and needed to relax and chill for a bit! (And also, when we went shopping one day, a scary man approached me and asked if I had any crack. Ummm. No.)
We did go to SeaWorld for a day though, which I loved. Im a sucker for SeaWorld!! I love water rides and all the cool animal shows! It was DFs birthday that day, so we booked a table to Dine with Shamu, the killer whale. We had a delicious buffet lunch next to Shamus big tank, and watched her do some tricks. It was actually very cool!
Heres Shamu dining on her buffet lunch
Hmmm, delicious!
So after 4 nights in San Diego, we flew to
Las Vegas!!
We stayed at the Monte Carlo, one of the big hotels on The Strip. It was fancy from the outside, but not so much on the inside. Which is a good way to describe Vegas in general actually!
Lets just say, I wasnt a huge fan of Las Vegas. Although it didnt help that when we were there, it was the long weekend and it was absolutely PACKED. Plus, to quote Elaine from Seinfeld, The HEAT! My GOD, the HEAT!! Because ooooohhhhhhh, wow. It was hot. It reached about 112 degrees F when we were there, but it felt even hotter. Theres no shade in Vegas. Only a zillion other sweaty, smelly, drunken bodies walking along next to you. And the only escape is into one of the casinos, which Im really not into. Aye, aye, aye!
Or, you could go to my favourite place in Vegas the M&M store!! Now that was cool!
One night in Vegas we went out for a nice meal at a nice restaurant, and DF ate some nice steak, and later that night, DF threw up that nice steak into our nice toilet. All night. Poor guy!! He had some serious food poisoning. So as you can tell, we just didnt have the best run in Vegas!
While there, we went on a day tour to the Grand Canyon via a tiny airplane, which was pretty cool. Although all the lookouts we went to looked pretty much like this
I mean, I know its really just a big hole, but I thought we might see some different scenery. Heee. Oh well. Its nice to say weve been to the Grand Canyon!
You know what else didnt help me enjoy Vegas? Knowing that we were only DAYS away from Disney!! I really just wanted to leave Vegas and fly to Disney World already!!
The night before we left Vegas, DF had a happy surprise
He won $240 on the slot machines! Yayyyyyy! So Vegas wasnt so bad after all!!
No, I shouldnt say that. It really wasnt terrible. It was just really hot and really crowded. We had some fun times like lounging around the pool, and playing in the M&M store, and walking around some of the themed casinos
And you know what comes next?!!! Yep! DISNEY WORLD!!!! Yayyyyyy!
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AUGH!! I cant believe were actually here!!