Day 45! We went on a tour to Alcatraz Island, which was so interesting. We got a walking tour up the hill explaining the history of the island, and then a self guided audio tour of the cell house. There was even an ex inmate in the gift shop autographing books, which is crazy! He was 81 years old and had only got out of prison 4 years ago. When we got back to San Fran we went to pier 39 for lunch/dinner at a beach diner, then wandered around there looking at the ...

Day 44! We dropped off the car this morning, which was a bit of a nightmare because the roads we needed were closed. We ended up having to leave it at a completely different drop off point than we'd thought! We walked back to the hostel and the streets were awful, so dodgy and full of homeless people and druggies. After a free bagel breakfast in the hostel we headed to Macy's where I got my eyebrows done at the original Benefit Brow Bar and spent a small fortune ...

Day 43! So glad to be out of the hostel in Yosemite, it was disgusting! We went to a cute wee place called Dori's tearoom for breakfast, and they made us lunch to take into the park too. We drove back to the park, to Glacier Point, where we got some amazing views! We hiked from there up to Sentinel Dome, which was only a 3 mile round trip but was so difficult. We had our packed lunch at the top which was so good, I had a wrap so big that I ate half of it and then...

Day 42! We picked up our hire car from the hotel in Vegas, and they'd ran out of compacts so they upgraded us to a bigger car. Result! We drove out to the 'Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas' sign before starting our monster drive to Yosemite. We left at 1pm and arrived at 10pm!! (With a couple of short stops) Thankfully we put all three of us as drivers on the car so we managed to split up the driving. The last 4 hours of driving were through the national park so we ...

Day 41! We went to Peppermill for breakfast, a super popular place as we had to wait almost an hour for a table. It was worth it though, we had omelettes as they'd been recommended to us and they were awesome, and HUGE. I reckon about 6 eggs, served with hash browns and a bagel and cream cheese. Murica. We couldn't finish them, obviously! We then walked down the strip to Caesars palace, which is incredible inside. It has a full size shopping mall as well as the h...