We got up early and were taken to watch the sun rise over monument valley it was absolutely freezing but beautiful! After a breakfast of porridge and hit chocolate beside the hogon we got back on the van and went back to sleep on the drive to the Grand Canyon. Anne gave us paper bags to draw on as she wanted to guide us to the grand canyon and have it revealed to us as she says it's so good to see it the first time this way. As we walked blind guided by Anne ...

We drove to monument valley today it took about 7 hours. We all soon realised the van was sending us all to sleep and Anne asked if she should wake us up when we pass something interesting we were like 'Yes pleeeeease!' We arrived and went on a jeep tour with a Navajo (native Indian) guide as they own the land and it is officially a separate country with it's own government. The scenery was breath taking and we felt like we were in a movie. We took lots of photo...

Today we got up early and headed to the Carlsbad Caves we saw some pretty amazing views on the drive up there. We walked down into the caves and they were amazing, absolutely huge. There was a restaurant and toilets at the bottom of the caves and the two Ash's were so impressed they could say they have been to the toilet a mile underground! It was quite surreal down there! We soon realised none of our cameras could do the caves justice in the light so Nicole sai...

Today we spent all day driving headed towards Carlsbad. We slept most of the way and when we arrived headed to wal mart for food. We bought more vodka (surprise surprise) and we decided to buy a net book to help us with backing up photos as finding Internet cafes is a pain. Hopefully we will be able to skype when the time zones are a bit better in New Zealand. We tried to put up the tents in a very windy dusty desert campsite. We ate tea and stayed up drinking ...

We all woke up pretty hungover and me and becky decided the other day to make an english fry up for everyone, turned out pretty nice actually even though we had to use liquid eggs from a carton. After that we couldn't decide whether to head around town or stay by the pool at camp. Our Ash and Aussie Ash decided to stay and be lazy but Becky headed into San Antonio to have a look around with the rest of the group. Becky found San Antonio one of the more pretty a...