Well today started off as a bit of a stressful day as we were meant to get up at 7am to get ready for Universal Studios but Stacey thought I was already up and by the time she woke me we were half an hour late. So we tried to get ready quick and then check out of the hostel before heading out for a quick breakfast. We then had to catch a quick train which was only about 5 or 10 minutes long, and then walk to the Universal shuttle which took us up to the park. Luc...

We got up reasonably early this morning to head off on our Los Angeles tour. We're staying in an 8 bed hostel room though and 2 of the girls we are sharing with got in at about 4am crashing and banging about and making heaps of noise, so we were annoyingly woken by that and didn't have the best sleep! So we got up and headed out for breakfast. We could make it at the hostel but neither of us were keen on that, so we headed out. After that we went and waited at ou...

So we arrived in L.A. airport at about 11am and headed to the security gates. This was pretty hardcore and we had to get fingerprinted and questioned as we entered. This took probably about half an hour and then we were able to get our bags and head in through to the arrival lounge. From here we needed to try and get our shuttle to the hostel. We followed the signs to where the shuttles were and then waited and waited while dozens of different shuttles drove ...

I arrived at Palmy airport just before 7 this morning with Brendon, Mum, Dad and Tara to wave me goodbye. After the sad goodbyes, I boarded the hour long flight to Auckland. Stacey and her parents were there to meet me at the arrival gate. We went and had breakfast in a cafe in the domestic terminal and then went for a drive to fill in some time. 2 hours later we arrived back at the Auckland International Airport and checked in, which took us about 20 minutes to...