Our American Holiday

January - February 2018
A 32-day adventure by Brydie Read more
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  • Day 11

    Las Vegas

    January 14, 2018 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 16 °C

    We arrived last night in Vegas, we are staying at the golden nugget. We got off the bus and dropped our bags at our room and headed straight to the DFO and got some party clothes! We then went back to our room on the way picked up some burgers and ate dinner, got ready and headed to the party bus.
    The bus was so much fun, we stoped at a drive through wedding chapel ( don't stress mum we didn't tie the knot 😂) then also stopped at the Vegas sign!
    Once the bus finished it dropped us at the Bellagio casino where we went to the night club, we watched the water works out the front from the roof top club! After the Bellagio we headed to Cesars Palace night club and it was crazy! Every so often streamers dropped from the roof and all!
    We headed on back to the room where we got a good nights sleep ready for today.
    Toby and I started the day with breaky down stairs and then we headed to a shooting range it was insane, they even picked us up in an Army jeep! Toby shot huge guns and I shot one small one. After the range we walked down the main strip getting lunch at Denny's and did some shopping as well as booked a show called Zumanity to go see tonight with our friends from Cessnock.
    We called back to the room quickly got ready for the Ferris wheel bar tonight then we are going to see and show and we may have a punt or two 😊 We definitely did not have enough time in Vegas but god we are fitting in a lot of things! Ready to head to the snow tomorrow ❄️
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  • Day 12

    Las Vegas - Lake Tahoe

    January 15, 2018 in the United States ⋅ 🌙 5 °C

    What a big day! We left Vegas early this morning and have been driving all day towards Lake Tahoe, it was a good day to catch up on some rest from our big couple of days.
    Last night we went on a massive Ferris wheel called the high roller in Las Vegas it was awesome, each big cart carries 20 odd people and there is a bar in the centre. It was amazing to see the city at night from the cart the views were just unreal. We then headed to the show we had organised to see by Cirque Du Seoul with our Cessnock friends, it was hilarious a drag queen ran the show, have I said enough...
    Once the show was over we headed to dinner at a rooftop bar across from the Bellagio which gave us the best view of the water show out the front of the casino. We then headed to both the Bellagio and Caesars Palace for abbey then headed home to hit the sack ready for our long drive today! We have a group dinner at an Italian place tonight then we will be having an early night ready for skiing in the morning ⛷❄️
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  • Day 13

    Lake Tahoe

    January 16, 2018 in the United States ⋅ 🌙 2 °C

    We had a great day skiing today! It is a lot different from skiing in Australia that's for sure, you catch a lift called a gondola up to the slopes from the closest town.
    They haven't had a lot of snow fall yet but we were lucky because it snowed today, the views from the lifts were spectacular!
    We headed home from the slopes and did some washing and got some takeaway Mexican with a few new friends and are ready to get to bed. Very keen for another day up there tomorrow!
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  • Day 14

    Lake Tahoe

    January 17, 2018 in the United States ⋅ 🌙 6 °C

    Another day on the slopes today! It was really good weather and we enjoyed the day. We found the hot tub tonight and had a swim and relax. We make our way to San Francisco tomorrow.

  • Day 15

    San Francisco

    January 18, 2018 in the United States ⋅ 🌧 14 °C

    We had a great day exploring San Fran, the only bad part was that the weather was very miserable and the fog was so heavy we couldn't see the Golden Gate Bridge! So we are off to see that today. We went and seen the painted ladies which is a group of really old houses that are painted different colours they are very pretty to see. Before dinner we went to see Pier 39 and the sea lions that live just off the deck.
    We went out for dinner at boudins for a soup in a sour dough bowl which was a great idea considering the weather.
    After dinner we went to an arcade inside of a bar which was fun, and then home to bed to get well rested ready for Alcatraz.
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  • Day 16

    San Francisco

    January 19, 2018 in the United States ⋅ ⛅ 12 °C

    We had the best day in San Fran today! We started our day at Alcatraz and did an audio tour of the cells wearing head phones, which told us all the stories and events of what happened. We then headed back on the ferry just in time to head to the fisher mans wharf near pier 39 for some fish and chips for lunch.
    After lunch we headed fraught to the Golden Gate Bridge to get a photo so we could tick another thing off our bucket list ✅ once we finally got to see the bridge without any fog(carl) lying around we headed to Hyde st to catch the tram up to union square where we did a bit of shopping. We walked back to Lombard st where he worlds craziest st lies with all its bends and on the way walked through China town. We eventually made it back to where we fist got on the tram and then headed towards where we are staying to get ready for a Chinese dinner!
    All in all it was an amazing day exploring all that San Fran has to offer 🙌🏽
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  • Day 17

    San Fran - LA

    January 20, 2018 in the United States ⋅ 🌙 10 °C

    Well it was back to LA we went. We left San Fran early this morning and traveled on the bus with ten others that were left. San Francisco was an amazing place but at the same time an eye opener to the mass amount of homeless population that reside there, it was incredible how many people were on the streets! Last night we walked home from a bar with eight others from the tour through a section of San Fran called the Tenderloin, this section of the city is home to majority of the homeless population and boy was it scary! In San Fran history tells a story of the homelessness being caused by quite a lot of mental health problems and other cities sending their homeless peoples the San Fran, ironic that it is one of the most expensive cities in the state of California.
    Any way we made it to LA and said good bye to some our beautiful tour guide Laura she was absolutely amazing 🙌🏽
    And our crazy bus driver Teresa! 😂
    We headed back to Santa Monica pier to see it in the day and watch the sunset with our friends that were left, we headed down to muscle park next to the pier that was full of gymnastics equipment that any one can use! We then headed to dinner with our friends Nicole, Chris, Jade and Gaby. We went to the Cheesecake Factory and it was bloody beautiful. After that we headed back to the pier for our friends that hadn't seen it to get photos and then we headed back to the room after a lot of sad goodbyes. We have another big day of travel tomorrow we have to be up at 4 to head to the air port ready to fly out to New York at 7am we are very excited 😊

    Recap on the friends we made
    Caitlin and Jordan- our beautiful Cessnock friends, it took us a 14 hour trip to the other side of the world to meet and we get on with the like a house on fire!

    Gaby- The beautiful and crazy Gabriella Chrissy Wallace who is from Melbourne and works at the commonwealth bank! She was easily one of our favourites and made the trip and bus rides a load of fun.

    Jade- Jade was an awesome girl who is also from Melbourne and is a Gymnastics coach! She loved the boys and constantly gave us a lot of laughs through her raunchy jokes 😂

    Nichole and Chris- these guys were really lovely, they lI've in Adelaide and also just recently brought and house and moved out! We had a lot in common with them, they kept us organised and well entertained with their constant arguments on who was right!

    We also made friends with the whole of the bus but the few above we would love to keep in contact with ❤️
    Some of the others were
    Andy- crazy sub mariner who spent way too much money at the stripers
    Anna- she was a teacher from tazzy and spoke like crocodile dun dee
    Emma- a PE teacher from Perth who was allergic to nuts
    Alana- she had to fly home from Vegas for her brothers wedding but her time with us was really fun she loved a drink and a slut drop hahaha she was mates with Emma
    Marcus- an Aussie who currently resides in Amsterdam working and we were unsure whether he liked girls or guys
    Cara- a crazy sluty New Zealand girl who was always down for a good time
    Alex and Ryan- a friend combo from Melbourne who fought like old women and were a little strange by nice
    Gen and Katie- he also known as button because she was as cute as a button😂 and her sister Katie who was ab old prude too good for everyone
    Taylor- a kiwi guy who loved pole dancing and busting his moves out after a few drinks
    Meagan- she was from Brisbane and had been working at disney land she was only 19 so couldn't come out with us but was always up for a few bevs back at the room
    Lerinda- she worked with Meagan at Disney and was a bit of an antisocial Aussie Asian
    Zoe- rich Asian girl from Brisbane who said she was a vegetarian but one night ate a chicken pasta
    Kadie- was a girl from the UK but had been working in Canada for the past 12 months she had a lot of cool story's to tell
    Grace- was a nurse from Brisbane who was lovely and very easy to get along with
    Heather- she had just finished a Topdeck with the same guide and then stared ours straight after

    Everyone's really different personalities made the trip really fun and interesting ❤️
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  • Day 18

    LAX - JFK New York

    January 21, 2018 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 8 °C

    We got up very early for a 7am flight from Los Angeles toward New York, the flight went pretty quickly and we finally arrived in New York!
    We got a shuttle from the air port and it took forever to get to our hotel but once we finally got settled in we went straight down the road to Times Square. It was amazing to see, all the lights and people putting on shows in the middle was really cool.
    We headed to dinner and had a feast we hadn't eaten since breaky so we really did dig in! Once we were finished we wondered back to our rooms and went to bed early ready for a big day tomorrow.
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  • Day 19

    New York

    January 22, 2018 in the United States ⋅ ⛅ 8 °C

    What a great day👍🏼
    We started off with meeting our friends Caitlin and Jordan for breaky, after we traveled on the subway towards the cruise line doc where we caught a cruise boat around New York seeing some of the popular attractions like the Statue of Liberty and Brooklyn Bridge!
    We then headed towards the 9/11 memorial and museum which was very interesting and extremely sad! It was definitely an eye opener.
    Once we explored the museum we headed out to a very nice Italian restaurant, we visited the ice skating rink at the Rockefeller building and checked it out ready for tomorrow night.
    We said goodnight to our mates and did a little shopping in Times Square on the way back to our room! We are currently laying in bed getting ready to get some shut eye for our big day tomorrow! Stay tuned for our next adventure in New York 🙌🏽
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  • Day 20

    New York

    January 23, 2018 in the United States ⋅ 🌧 13 °C

    We had a great day today! We woke up when ever we liked for the first time since we have been on the holiday it was so good to sleep in for a bit. We headed down to Tiffany's where we found out we couldn't have breaky because there was a month long waiting list!
    I brought a beautiful pendant to wear at a necklace and also I can clip it onto my bracelet that I got off toby for my 21st.
    We headed to lunch and then back to Tiffany's to pick up the pendant. We also went and visited the NBA store and the Adidas store which is the largest store in the world!
    After our shopping adventures we went to the National History Museum where they filmed night at the museum. We caught the subway back to our hotel and got ready to meet up with our friends for some NY pizza and then ice skating at the Rocker Fella centre, god toby and I were hopeless at it! When we finished ice skating we went up to the top of the Rocker Fella and the view was surreal, we could see the Statue of Liberty through the binoculars as well!
    On the way back to our rooms we called in at Juniors for some desert, where it was supposed to be home to America's best Cheesecake but we still think the Cheesecake Factory takes the cake 😊
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