Viva Las Vegas!!!! Have just got back and had a really good time. Vegas is a crazy place, completely another world over there. All the casinos and hotels and stuff are all on one strip that seems to go on forever. There's a mini paris with a mini eiffel tower which we went up and got some amazing veiws of night time vegas. They have a New York there too with the Empire State Building and Statue of Liberty. Everything is just sooo over the top and tacky but...

Well hello from sunny LA!!!!! I thought you might like to know i've just spent the afternoon sunning myself on the beach, jealous much?? Anyway as you can tell i arrived safely after a looooong flight, it took my body a couple of days to properly get over the jet lag but i'm right on LA time now. The hostel i'm staying in is in Santa Monica (about 5 mins from the pier-hence the photo) which is a good area to be based in i think. There is everything nearb...