Merry Christmas, Australia! Hope you have all had a lovely day. We started the day downstairs in Bellagio at the patisserie where the world's largest chocolate fountain is. It comes down from the roof cascading over glass plates. It looked pretty cool. We went to the Factory Outlets this morning. It wasn't too crowded when we got there but by the time we left it was crazy. There were queues outside some stores. Of course there was a massive queue outside Kate S...

We left Santa Barbara just after 7am for the drive to Las Vegas. We followed the lovely coastline for a bit before hitting the LA freeways & then heading east. The desert was really boring after the coastal scenery that we have had. But, it was an easy drive and we arrived in Vegas 5.5hrs later. There seems to have been some road improvements made since we were last here. There are also new hotels/casinos. We are staying at Bellagio. Bellagio has a conservat...

There are no new photos today because I have come to the lobby by myself to use the WiFi & I don't know how to upload new ones. We didn't really know what to do today to make the most of our one day in Santa Barbara so we got going early & headed for Stearns Wharf which is California's oldest working wharf. Stearns Wharf had a major fire destroy a part of it in 1998 but it has been rebuilt. It turns out it was only a few blocks from our hotel & we co...

We started this morning by heading back down to Cannery Row to look for sea otters. We didn't see any around the wharves there. We walked around the corner & found one of the universities had a harbour seal observation area & there were seals there. We watched them for a while & then I went to get the car from where we had left it. While I was gone Robyn saw an otter. Doh!! We drove down to Fisherman's Wharf as that was another area for sightings. The...

After we checked out this morning, we went & found the Mrs Doubtfire house. It is in an area full of big beautiful houses. It is a lovely looking house but like the Painted Ladies, could do with a coat of paint. Then we headed for Monterey. After a bit on the freeway getting us out of town, Marcia (the GPS voice) told us to take an exit. Sometimes if you get over too early you get forced to exit so I wasn't all the way over. Then there was an A & B exit,...