OUT OF TOUCH

Hi all,
Sorry its been a while! We've done alot since I last posted. Here's just some of the things we have been up too
-Cycled the Golden Gate Bridge (over & back, most people get the ferry back, but not us!! Did about 15 miles altogether!!)

-Toured Alcatraz, which included going into the solitary confinement cells. Awesome!



-Drove from San Francisco to Las Vegas. We took the coast road. Unbelievable. Breathtaking. We drove for about 12 hours. Then we stopped off in a town called Bakersfield. Dad reckons that's the town Bonnie & Clyde were killed in. We took highway 58. For 86 miles there were no services. Not a shop, or house or even wildlife. Land is so vast. Then we came to a fork in the road. We could go left or right. No signs to indicate which way. We had to guess in the middle of the desert. Luckily enough we we're right.(although you should go left, just in case you are ever on highway 58)
-Then we got to Vegas Baby!! I have never been in a city like it. Its a crazy city. We stayed in a hostel for our first few nights, then upgraded to a hotel room. While in the hostel we got to go out in a hummer limo(absolutely huge) which took us to Coyote Ugly (yeah just like the film, the woman dance on the bars!!), where we got VIP access. Twas a good night!
-Gambled in Vegas- We had to!! i kinda got hooked on the computer poker. Anto tried his hands at some Texas Hold'em. He lost all his money, but that's because he was playing with 'pros'. Well so he said. We hit a few other clubs. They're all so pretentious. The bouncers go along the Q & pick out the good looking girls (more so the barely clothed ones). They look u up & down to suss your clothes out before letting u in. Then when u do go in, there's no seats, as they are all cordoned off for VIP (which u can be if u buy a $40 bottle of champagne or a $ 125 bottle of Vodka).
-Attended the wedding of Elizabeth Behan & Declan McCarthy-Beautiful. Anto almost cried.
-Drove from Vegas to LA-Again a fabulous drive!!
-Went to Universal Studios & I got on a Rollarcoaster (my biggest achievement yet)

so i think I have y'all up to date!! We're still in LA. Off to Venice beach tomorrow, where all the muscle hangs out! Then we fly to New Zealand on Monday. Its hard to believe its been 5 weeks already!! Hopefully we'll get some photos up soon. We have soooo many!!

chat soon
Babs & Anto