Hey everyone, it's Erin here...my turn to update the blog. Well...what a couple of days we've just had! We set off from San Diego full of excitement in our GTI hire car, with Sophie at the wheel just about managing to control it. After half an hour, we heard the strangest of noises... "Is it the wind?" we thought, so us being girls we stuck our heads out of the windows (whilst Sophie was driving at 80mph) to investigate! Although it was quite windy, the...

Well we arrived a day later to meet the girls in Vegas after they had had an eventful time trying to check in under my name. Vegas certainly lived up to the great expectations and we all loved it. Our fav hotels were Bellagio, Venician shortly followed by Hooters!! Nath now we know why you and your mates keep wanting to go back to Vegas year after year!! Second day there we all headed for one hell of a coach journey to the Grand Canyon but it was well worth the...

From Vegas we sadly had to say goodbye to Dawn, Jess, Jodeen and my great travel buddy Jo. We hired a car and made the long journey to San Diego. Sue had the pleasure of driving for 5 hours and it was a bit hair raising. But when we finally arrived it was well worth the trip. The hostel is great fun and the best thing of all they provide free dinners and dessert!;) On the first day we walked down to the Marina and seaport village, in the lovely sunshine, altho...

From Antigua we then headed to San Pedro on Lake Atitlan. Decided to stay in the best hotel in SP, as all of the other places we were showed were the pits and i wouldnt even let a dog stay there!! The hotel was lovely and well worth blowing our budget on. It had a gorgeous roof terrece which we sunbathed on as we felt we needed a rest after 2 and a bit weeks of constant sight seeing, treking up volcanos etc. Place was very quaint and relaxing and would def rec ...

Completely forgot to tell you about our xmas. We headed to Antigua which is a lovely Italian style town. We met some Aussies on the way there and all went drinking on Xmas eve. Then xmas day made the fatal mistake of deciding to climb the active volcano of Pacaya and to make it worse we had a hangover!!! well what an adventure this was. It took 2 hours to get to the top and at this point the sun had completely done down and was ptich black!! To make matters wors...