Day 14 - Leaving for Fiji today! All really excited about today, cant wait to get there although know it is gonna be so long as flight is 10 hours. Also bit scared as the 2 northern guys were telling us how bad there flight had been from Fiji to LA so hoping that ours won't be the same! Spent most of the day just hanging around waiting to go, watch dirty dancing in the afternoon that film is on everywhere you go, had some cheap dinner then off to the airport. Fli...

Day 13 - Hired some bikes today, as we thought it would be the best way of seeing the beaches and places around Hermosa! Was so funny, seeing none of us had ridden a bike for years! Bikes in America don't have hand brakes, they have foot ones, and I also do not have a good history with bikes as the family know. Think I did almost give Vicky a heart attack when I couldn't stop and was a couple of inches from crashing into a car, shouldn't really say that it will w...

Day 12 - Again pretty lazy day, mainly because I was so tired from all the driving the day before! Went out in the evening for some Tapas in Hermosa before going to a few bars. Hermosa became really busy at the weekend, clearly everyone goes to the coast at the weekend to relax, the beach and the bars were so busy. Think it was also because it was a bank holiday weekend. Ended up in a bar called mermaids, which was the equivalent of the old man restaurant in Holl...

Day 10 - Zoo Day!!!! All got way to excited about going to the Zoo, think it was because we had heard so much about the pandas! Did a little tour bus around the zoo when we first got there, also went on a sky line tour over the zoo. Did loads of walking as the zoo is pretty spread out, think we all decided that the panda's, elephants, meerkats, orangutans were favorites, especially the baby gorilla. Saw a few of the shows they put on too, special moment was when ...

Day 9 - After the lack of activity on the previous day, we decided to be proactive and hired a car for a couple of days! I had the responsibility of driving????? Was quite weird picking up the car we asked for the smallest car, but ended up with a saloon ford focus, automatic of course! Weirdest thing about driving in America was not being on the opposite side of the road but not having to change gears, but after a few little hiccups when we were driving in the b...