Our third week in California marked a visit to Walnut Creek, Sarah & Rey's old stomping ground. After dropping Sarah off for work we headed to Berkeley where we wandered around the University of California like we were students, it was freshers week so we had loads of people trying to coerce us into social clubs etc. (made us feel young!) We did some shopping in Berkeley before doing some more in Walnut Creek. (We last visited Walnut Creek 6 years ago!!!! Whe...

To kickstart our second week in Irvine, we hit the outlets and left with literally hundreds of bags of bargains! Helen was overjoyed as her new handbags had been reduced by at least 40%...investment for the future right? The night before Rey's parents, aunt and uncle were due to return to San Jose we headed out to a Brazilian restaurant which was an awesome experience in itself. You get given a card which was red and green on each side - green means keep it com...

We were welcomed to Los Angeles for a second time by Rey and Sophie (the dog!) and when we arrived at Sarah and Rey's house we were so glad to be sleeping on a proper bed that evening! LA is to be our home for the next 4 weeks! Number one on our list of things to do was RELAX, so thats what we did on our first day. Sarah arrived that evening from San Fran and we all went for some Dairy Queen! How American! :) We soon realised that Helen's engagement ring was ...

We arrived at Cancun in the darkness and after grabbing a McDonalds we headed to our hotel which we had booked for free through our Agoda points. We were pleasantly surprised with our hotel, modern, luxurious and had everything the traveller needs! Both of us had a good nights sleep especially as the bed was literally 10ft wide! We then checked our bags for any creepy crawlies and both of us were esastic to find NONE! Thank god as the last thing we wanted was t...

We left Playa Del Carmen at 6.30am to catch the 7.10am ADO bus to Tulum only to find the bus we wanted didn't exist! So we got a taxi to Tulum ready to meet our dive guide at 8.30am for some Cenote Diving. Once we got our gear all kitted up we left for the Angelita Cenote (see pic), oh my god this dive ranks in our top 3 all time favourite dives! It's absolutely magical (yet disorientating!). We had to walk a short distance through the jungle to the Cenote and a...