Thursday 2nd July Yesterday morning I got up early and met up with the new tour group. They are all very nice and think we will all get on great when we get to know each other better. I'm just really missing the others though. Hoping we will see the 4 that are doing the other south trip quite a bit along the way. We went to the worlds largest thermometer and got our first group picture together. We then drove to Vagas. It's lovely here! Really hot, it was 47 deg...

Wednesday 1st July We got up yesterday morning and met up with everyone who was still left here from our first trip. Clair, Susan and I went to a crepe place for breakfast which was really good. We then went back to the hotel and JD took us all to the beach for the day. We stopped and got some food and drink for the beach and then drove down. There was a few girls from the other south trip which Rich, Susan, Veronica and Tom are on that came to the beach to meet...

Tuesday 30th June Yesterday morning we left the hotel early after having a late night so we were all shattered. Just about all of us slept on the bus most of the way. We had a chilled out day driving to LA stopping at beaches and gift shops. We stopped at Santa Barbara, Santa Monica and Venice Beach. All really nice but completely different places, good to see them though. We got back to the hotel at night which is the end of the first tour. It was time to say g...

Monday 29th June We left San Fran early yesterday morning. We walked along the Golden Gate Bridge which was pretty cool. We then went up to see the views over San Fran before driving along the California Coast which was some awesome sites! We arrived at our hotel in time for dinner so we headed out for our last dinner together with the first group. We had a few drinks in the garden area at the hotel with our group and another trek group. Another really good nigh...

Sunday 28th June Yesterday morning we got the train over to the pier to get on the boat to Alcatraz. The boat only took about 10 mins and we were there. Alcatraz is amazing! I loved it, something that definitely needs to be seen! While I was in Alcatraz my phone totally crashed and I couldn't get it to do anything. Eventually got it back on but it kept freezing and wouldn't work properly so we headed back into the town centre and I went to the apple shop and bou...