So we arrived in Christchurch on sunday morning and my mobile works hooraahh!!!!!!! costs me 50p a text so wont be texting all the time but nice that it works. Im going to have a little rant now about Air New Zealand, theyre crap both flights we have had with them the food hasnt been great you dont get your own tv you have to watch some rubbish film they chose to put on, the headphones never work properly and both times we have had so much turbulant which i blame...

So after a long flight from LA and the most turbulant flight ever actually got a bit scared at a few points along the journey(Air New Zealand has nothing on Virgin Atlantic i should be a sales person cos i love Virgin) we arrive in the Cook Islands and its really hot! We got a flower in our hair and got sung to by a little local band at the airport and off we went to Varas Beach House, The location was perfect and stunning right on Muri lagoon which is just parad...

Hi allHave arrived in LA, well in Santa Monica about 30 mins ouside of hollywood. Really nice here lots of busy streets with shops bars and restaurants. Hostel is nice again got to go in a single sex dorm tonight but have a private room for the next 4 nights which is good.Went to Universal Studios for the day was amazing got to see where Jaws and Pirates of the Carribean were filmed and the sets are still there, got to go on the set of Desperate Housewives and sa...

 On the first night we arrived at 2 in the morning so we thought we would get a taxi we asked about 3 different taxis and none of them would take us to our street which was annoying but eventually someone did and realised it was only round the corner so thats was probably why nevermind we made it. Hostel was really nice again and the first day we were there we went to Balboa Park and went to the famous San Diego zoo where we saw koalas and Giant Pandas was g...

So we arrived in San Francisco and were taken to our hostel and we were staying in a 24 bed mixed dorm...yes i did say 24 bed dorm! It seemed like an ok idea at the time of booking it but it was awful loads of people snoring and really noisy so we upgraded for the next night they didnt have any more availability for our remaining 2 nights so we found a place nearer the main town which we also thought was a good idea at the time(ill come back to that in a min). Th...