I caught the train back to derby after my long night drinking in the plane, only to be greeted by mum, nat and Emma stood on derby train station platform with balloons ha ha I can't believe I've made it around the world on my own and manage to get home in one piece! Looking back, it's flown by and I will cherish every moment for ever!!! Xx

After driving up sunset blvd to take that classic picture of the 'hollywood' sign you see the plush mountain houses and the enormous auto mobiles! The sign was originally put there in 1927 by real estate developers and actually said Hollywood land but they shortened it when the place became famous for movies!!! Very sad saying goodbye to jan and Libby although they're over in the uk in September so I'm sure our 'icicle' summer will fly by! Its funny hearing jan...

Universal studios lived upto all expectations, on the Simpsons ride you got sucked into maggies mouth like a lolly pop and you could actually smell babies! The mummy ride took off like Rita and we had a behind the scenes look at how they create hollywoods special effects! Hollywood boulevard was everything I expected although I didn't see Oprah walking down the street, we saw all the stars on the sidewalk after having shepherds pie at the 'pig and whistle', we ...

After a 10.5 hour flight from Fiji, (which I miraculously slept through) it was great to see jan and Libby at LAX! His american accent hit me like a smack in the face and he certainly wouldn't look out of place in an American music video! We checked into our Hollywood best western, a few minutes from the Beverly hills Hilton where Whitney recently passed away! We went for an amazing meal at a small Italian on rodeo drive! The infamous street where Julia Roberts b...

Grandpa tivoli invited me out fishing with him! What a way to learn than off an old professional! I knew I needed a snorkel so was expecting to be out swimming for a while! We started off by looking for crab holes in the sand and following the tunnel until we caught it! Tivoli then pulled it's legs off whilst it was still squirming and put the torsos in his short pockets! His fishing line consisted of a plastic bottle, a line and a hook and we swam out over the r...