Hi Everyone Got a bit of updating to do. There weren't very many good internet facilities in Beijing so we have had to wait till Hong Kong. Tuesday 7th November - we arrived in Beijing and wandered around the local area. We then went to a Beijing Acrobatics show in the evening. It was really good, the acrobats are really young but very talented, lots of them doing balancing and twisting their bodies whilst holding glass cups and things. The lads were great ...

Hi Everyone Just wanted to let you all know we have arrived safely in Beijing China. We got here early this morning from a long 13 hour flight from LA, we kind of lost Monday 6th whilst in the air. It was a bit mad this morning trying to get to the hostel as we were given instructions that didn't really work because the Chinese Taxi drivers couldn't read the address in English. But we made it and the hostel is fine. We've not done much today, we h...

Hi Everyone We're in San Diego at the moment. We arrived yesterday evening after leaving Las Vegas. We went back to Las Vegas from the Grand Canyon to spend Halloween there - it was so worth the extra but of driving. Las Vegas for Halloween was BRILLIANT. The whole group dressed up and we went walking down the strip in and out of different bars, we then went into a costume party where they had a competition for best costume. None of us got picked but it was ...

Hi EveryoneWell since our last entry we left Las Vegas $300 up, or thereabouts, we did well the second night in Vegas on the roulette again.  Number 35 what a beauty. So we left Las Vegas Sunday 29th and drove to the Grand Canyon.We got to the Grand Canyon at about 4pm and went straight away to the Canyon edge to say some amazing pictures as the sun was setting.  We set up camp and it was freezing!! Nice sunny day but absolutely freezing at night. The s...

Hi EveryoneWe're in Las Vegas at the moment.  This is an amazing place, the hotels and Casino's are fantastic.  Water fountain shows, light shows, white tigers in the Lobby's, Dolphin shows in hotels.  It's crazy, there are so many things to do on just one 2 mile strip. In San Francisco we went to Alcatraz, we went to Lombard Street which is the crookiedest street in the world, went to the Pier and had some Bubba Gump shrimp in a Bu...