Campbell here again. I was being lazy again so now Josh is annoying me to do this post. He has even built a fort around me with pillows and suitcases saying, "it would be impossible to get out of there.
A few days ago was our first day in Universal Studios. Like Mexico, we got there halfway through the day. We caught a car to the Hard Rock Hotel and when we arrived, sadly there were no free drinks. We were on floor 7 again, which meant we got free stuff again.
We went to the main park after we got used to the hotel room. The first thing we went on was the new Despicable Me ride. It was a 4D cinema show where we were turned into minions and had to go through a series of tests to see if we could survive as minions. Next up was the Rip-Ride Rockit for Flynn, Josh and dad. This time, Flynn could be seen by the camera so we watched the video with him being in it. Dad was looking at stuff around the park, Flynn was looking straight ahead and so was Josh.
We spent the rest of the day going on a few more rides, checking out some shops and avoiding characters that were giving out autographs and photos.
That's really all that happened that day.
Thursday, 25 April 2013
Tuesday, 23 April 2013
Mexico - Home of the Sombrero
Josh again. Day three of Cancun, and I happily woke up late, meaning I missed breakfast. All I was given was a chocolate donut, to start off the day. We set off to the shops, only to be stopped by one of the staff and told the stores didn't open until 11.
So instead, we waited for a few hours playing shuffleboard and pool. We then, unfortunately, started to walk the 10 minutes to the closest one. This didn't go as well as mum planned, so we caught a bus the 1-2 stops.
There wasn't much there, except bobbing toitles (turtles) and 'Dinosaur Butterfly Toitles'. We then caught another bus to the furthest store, for lunch at the Hard Rock. After a quick lunch, there they were. . . .
So instead, we waited for a few hours playing shuffleboard and pool. We then, unfortunately, started to walk the 10 minutes to the closest one. This didn't go as well as mum planned, so we caught a bus the 1-2 stops.
There wasn't much there, except bobbing toitles (turtles) and 'Dinosaur Butterfly Toitles'. We then caught another bus to the furthest store, for lunch at the Hard Rock. After a quick lunch, there they were. . . .
SOMBREROS!!!
After swiftly purchasing a red one of these, and a personalised bracelet thing reading 'SWAG'.
The important thing was defiantly the sombrero though.
Sunday, 21 April 2013
The Tour
Hey it's Flynn again! Yesterday was probably the best day so far in the holiday. In the morning mum and dad woke us up at 6:00 to go down and have a day tour with a man named Jerry. He made a few jokes while we were on the looooong car ride to Cenote Park Maya, which is really cool. After we walked along the limestone path we had to go through a ritual performed by a shaman. He had something in a cup that I couldn't see (because I was too short) and said some Myan words that I couldn't understand.
Then we went into the cool bit. After we put on a harness and gloves we went down underground into a big course sort of thing with water everywhere. The first thing I did was a zipline (that was really fun) . When I let go of the zipline and fell in the water I felt a catfish sucking my arm and it felt nice but weird. The next thing I did was a sort of zipline but there was a seat and you sat on it and it would swing on a long rope. The final thing I did there was a sort of rope bridge thing. There was a thin rope above you and one below you and you had to try and walk along it. Josh and I cheated a bit and held on to the bottom with our hands and swam to the end still holding the bottom rope. After we had lunch and a bit of dessert, we drove to Ek Balam, a Mayan city. There we had to climb up a really tall temple to see where the king lived. I got mum to look up how many steps there were and it turns out there were 108 of them! When we had finished trying to take pictures of iguanas and birds we went in the van and drove back to the Hotel.
Viva Mexico
Campbell here. Sorry for the late post, I was being lazy and playing games instead of writing my post.
Anyway, a few days ago was our first day in Mexico. We spent half of the day going on planes to get to Cancun though (groan). When we finally got here though, it was a 20 minute drive to the Hard Rock Hotel. When we arrived, we received free drinks that we didn't know what they were and if they were alcoholic (if they were, I had 3 glasses of alcohol:D) . We spent the rest of the afternoon exploring the hotel. There were some cool things, like a shuffleboard game (not the type that old people use in movies, one where you have pucks and you try to aim for certain scores), a theatre where different shows are performed every now and then and a jacuzzi in our bedroom! (hell yeah). We also had room service for dinner, which was nuggets and chips. That's really all that happened that day, so... ¡BACON MAN AWAY!
Anyway, a few days ago was our first day in Mexico. We spent half of the day going on planes to get to Cancun though (groan). When we finally got here though, it was a 20 minute drive to the Hard Rock Hotel. When we arrived, we received free drinks that we didn't know what they were and if they were alcoholic (if they were, I had 3 glasses of alcohol:D) . We spent the rest of the afternoon exploring the hotel. There were some cool things, like a shuffleboard game (not the type that old people use in movies, one where you have pucks and you try to aim for certain scores), a theatre where different shows are performed every now and then and a jacuzzi in our bedroom! (hell yeah). We also had room service for dinner, which was nuggets and chips. That's really all that happened that day, so... ¡BACON MAN AWAY!
Friday, 19 April 2013
In the beginning of the day, there was nothing - I still don't know where this came from.
Josh again. Last day of N'Orlins, with nothing planned for the day. It was a slow start, leaving at 9:30 after having a quick breakfast of cereal. We went to the markets, where they sold crocodile on a stick. Of course I needed one of these!
I stood around with dad for about 10-15 minutes, waiting for the crocodile to be served, while the rest of them searched through the rest of the market. After talking to the chef, the crocodile on a stick came out immediately. >.>
It was a huge hunt, looking for a 'Pirate Yoga' t-shirt everywhere after that. Looking into every shop, but to no avail. Flynn wasn't as happy as he could have been, but he settled for a 'Where the weird things are - New Orleans' shirt instead.
We had a lunch booked at 12:15 at NOLA, a fancy restaurant. As of yesterday, it had become a competition of who could collect the most refills, leaving a tally on our hands. Luckily for him, dad had two drinks from the start, while we got a second at the end. Dad's end tally was 13, mine was 8, and Campbell's was too low to even mention.
Unfortunately, we then had to go on a 3 hour tour (thanks mum). I can't say what the tour was about, or what he was saying at all, because I wasn't listening/sleeping. I think everyone but mum slept, actually.
After that bore-fest, we had a quick swim back at the hotel, and went back to the Hard Rock Cafe for dessert. We were full enough from the huge lunch. Most of us had the peanut butter pie, which wasn't a pie at all. It was more like a super sweet peanut butter ice cream, in a glass.
We were supposed to go to bed early, for the 6am limo to the airport. . .1am is an early rest, right? Right?
I stood around with dad for about 10-15 minutes, waiting for the crocodile to be served, while the rest of them searched through the rest of the market. After talking to the chef, the crocodile on a stick came out immediately. >.>
It was a huge hunt, looking for a 'Pirate Yoga' t-shirt everywhere after that. Looking into every shop, but to no avail. Flynn wasn't as happy as he could have been, but he settled for a 'Where the weird things are - New Orleans' shirt instead.
We had a lunch booked at 12:15 at NOLA, a fancy restaurant. As of yesterday, it had become a competition of who could collect the most refills, leaving a tally on our hands. Luckily for him, dad had two drinks from the start, while we got a second at the end. Dad's end tally was 13, mine was 8, and Campbell's was too low to even mention.
Unfortunately, we then had to go on a 3 hour tour (thanks mum). I can't say what the tour was about, or what he was saying at all, because I wasn't listening/sleeping. I think everyone but mum slept, actually.
After that bore-fest, we had a quick swim back at the hotel, and went back to the Hard Rock Cafe for dessert. We were full enough from the huge lunch. Most of us had the peanut butter pie, which wasn't a pie at all. It was more like a super sweet peanut butter ice cream, in a glass.
We were supposed to go to bed early, for the 6am limo to the airport. . .1am is an early rest, right? Right?
Thursday, 18 April 2013
Day 2 in New Orleans
Hello! It's Flynn here. I'm sorry about the late posts because of the timezones but we are trying to keep them daily. Anyway, yesterday the day started with Josh, Campbell and I getting in trouble for locking our room at night. Mum and Dad were knocking at our door for an hour and we finally woke up at 8:02. We decided to have breakfast at IHOP (international house of pancakes). We then went on a street car to go to Magazine St, a 12 kilometre street and had a nice lime refresher. After the drink we walked along to come across a bookshop. We went in to find some extra books for the flights coming up. As usual my brothers and I were complaining about walking so far around New Orleans. After a long walk back to the street car and a trip back I asked if we could go into a gaming shop called GameStop and we could. I was so happy to find Lego lord of the rings on wii for $20 but I was very disappointed when I found out that it only worked on American wii consoles :-( We finally gave up for walking and went to an Italian restaurant for dinner. It was very funny because the man that refilled everyone's water came to our table more than 20 times. I think I'll stop typing now because the iPad I'm writing on is 5% charge. More from Josh soon if possible. Just so you know the order of posts is Josh then Campbell then me.
Wednesday, 17 April 2013
New Wonders in New Orleans
Hi, Campbell here. Yesterday was our first day in New Orleans.
Our day started off by us sleeping in. We got yelled at by mum because she wanted to go out to breakfast about an hour before we woke up. Shame on us.
We went out to breakfast at a buffet in the French Market. Everything was salted there. The bacon, the scrambled eggs, even the scones!
We then spent some time looking at different shops. We went to a chilli shop, where there were awesome sauces for chilli, sauces made by American drink companies and a wall of fame for eating a dip of the hottest chilli sauce in the universe. There was only one person on it. We also went to a toy shop which had some of the things we bought at F.A.O. Schwarz and a few more places.
We went to the Hard Rock for lunch (#10 on the Hard Rock list for us, only about 130 left!). We looked around a bit, and noticed that there was a stage for live performances, a few rooms where they were training new staff and lots of different items that had been used by famous musicians.
I forget what we had for dinner, so I'll go on to Chaz's Ghost Tour. Chaz wasn't feeling well, so we had one of the other people who worked for him, Prof. Alexander. While on the tour,we heard stories about the most deadly corner in the world, where people have been kidnapped, murdered on the spot and many other gruesome things that have happened on that very corner. We also passed a house that was home to a man who HATED the tours always stopping next to his house. The thing is, the house next door to his was in a vampire movie (interview with a vampire). He yelled out at us and called us assholes and 'Walmart shoppers of the supernatural'. One person in our group was quite funny and asked Alexander, "Can I take a photo of the cranky guy and use it?" Obviuosly the answer was yes. Personally, I think the people who shop at Walmart have SWAG. Considering they walk in there looking like what they do in these pics, of course they are bad-asses.
Our day started off by us sleeping in. We got yelled at by mum because she wanted to go out to breakfast about an hour before we woke up. Shame on us.
We went out to breakfast at a buffet in the French Market. Everything was salted there. The bacon, the scrambled eggs, even the scones!
We then spent some time looking at different shops. We went to a chilli shop, where there were awesome sauces for chilli, sauces made by American drink companies and a wall of fame for eating a dip of the hottest chilli sauce in the universe. There was only one person on it. We also went to a toy shop which had some of the things we bought at F.A.O. Schwarz and a few more places.
We went to the Hard Rock for lunch (#10 on the Hard Rock list for us, only about 130 left!). We looked around a bit, and noticed that there was a stage for live performances, a few rooms where they were training new staff and lots of different items that had been used by famous musicians.
I forget what we had for dinner, so I'll go on to Chaz's Ghost Tour. Chaz wasn't feeling well, so we had one of the other people who worked for him, Prof. Alexander. While on the tour,we heard stories about the most deadly corner in the world, where people have been kidnapped, murdered on the spot and many other gruesome things that have happened on that very corner. We also passed a house that was home to a man who HATED the tours always stopping next to his house. The thing is, the house next door to his was in a vampire movie (interview with a vampire). He yelled out at us and called us assholes and 'Walmart shoppers of the supernatural'. One person in our group was quite funny and asked Alexander, "Can I take a photo of the cranky guy and use it?" Obviuosly the answer was yes. Personally, I think the people who shop at Walmart have SWAG. Considering they walk in there looking like what they do in these pics, of course they are bad-asses.
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