I <3 L.A

A little update.
I'm not gonna write Everything but a few things about every day from the trip.

Saturday - Arrived to the hotel around 11.30 and Julie (Leaders were Julie and Susan) came down to meet me and showed me my room. 511. I was gonna share room with Lara - Germany(Michigan!!)Julie - Denmark and Elin - Norway (Michigan)

Sunday - Wake-up at 7 a.m . Down to breakfast. yuum! Fresh fruit and unsweetened oatmeal. And it made me So happy to see no clouds and Green grass. Wow the heat <3
Tour in L.A. Started at Venice beach and continued to Beverly Hills with a few stops in between and then to Farmers market for lunch, Melrose Avenue, Hollywood. I probably missed something but it was so much so i don't remember :o Anyway, the day ended with dinner in downtown L.A in a high house where the top was spinning slowly so you could see L.A while eating. And as a end we all went down to the inside pool and had fun.

Monday - Full day at Disneyland. We almost had 12 hours and we had time for like 5 or 6 rides! :o which means that the lines were Long. But we did a lot of other things too.
But a huuge disappointment was how small the castle is :o We thought it was gonna be big since it looks so big on pictures. But no, it was very small.
At night they have fireworks around the castle with a recording in the backround so it was like a story with the fireworks. I think all of us were pretty dead in the bus on the way back to the hotel. No time for swimming this night.

Tuesday - 6 / 7 hour ride to V E G A S !
Geez all the desert. Specially in Nevada. We made a stop in Santa Fe i guess still in California to eat. On to Vegas. We watched "What happens in Vegas" Funny movie ^^
Finally there, two hours to do what we wanted. Outside pool, guess where everyone was?
In our room, we just grabbed our bikini and ran down, we were the first ones there :P
Even warmer than L.A. Woow , love it. Swam a while and then tanning. What a tan for just that short amount of time! But we couldn't be there for long, time to get ready for tonights dinner and show. Buffé. we had an hour. How can we eat in that short time?? but we made it.
The show was "American superstars" Elvis, Michael Jackson, Christina Aguilera, Rod Stewart and some country person. Fake of course but really good.
This was in the Stratosphere. 900feet high. They have three rides on top.
One free fall thing, insanity - hanged out over the L.V strip and spinning around. and the third one was x-scream. Like a roller coaster kinda that tipped back and forth over the L.V strip. We went on that one. I for real thought i was gonna die before going on it...But then it turned out not to be to bad. I bought the picture and people told me i looked like winnie the pooh and that it was a compliment ? yeah okey haha.

Wednesday - Grand Canyon!
Three hour ride.
We passed Hoover Dam(big beautiful thing that President Hoover had made to make the economy better long time ago. Also a bridge seperating Nevada and Arizona)We Stoped at a ranch for lunch. Cool place.
After eating a guy mad card tricks, which seriously was imposible. All of us walked away amazed.
We could hang ourselves and shoot ourselves. I hanged myself.
This was by the edge of the canyon.
We took the bus to one of the two viewpoints "The eagle". It's an eagle shaped into the canyon. A big one. Really cool. We took a lot of pictures and took the bus to the other view point that i forgot the name of. It had a pyramid (by nature) that you could have a 360 degree view from.
Amazing. Never seen anything like it before. It truly was amazing.
For dinner we stoped at a food court back in Vegas and later we saw a water show at the hotel Bellagio. If you've seen Ocean eleven, in the end when they say their "secret goodbyes" that watershow is going on in the backround. Also inside of the hotel there was the worlds biggest chocholate fountain. We also "went lost" in the casino. We can't be there since we're to young but we walked thru it. Very fascinating.

Thursday - Last day. Tour down the Vegas strip.
Or first we stoped at the "Welcome to Las Vegas" sign and then to Las Vegas outlet.
So big and wonderful. I found a pair of Miss sixty jeans for $14 instead of $ 140...
Now, on to the strip. Just kidding we first went to a roller coaster and the worlds largest souviner shop. Then to the strip.
Forum shops where all the expensive shops were at. Tease not to be extremely wealthy...
It was sky in the ceiling so it looked like we were inside. It looked like it was mooving too which made it more realistic. In the Venitian hotel that we walked to was built like Venice inside. It really looked like Italy. The sky, houses, water , restaurants. All of it.
Very fascinating.
On the way back me and Elin decided to get Tattoos. Yes, tattoos. You love me mom right? (a)
So we continued down to another place.
Where another huge roller coaster in the hotel New York New York was at. Wow , uj what a roller coaster. Insane. Then we went to the M&M store. 4 floors. wooho. So sad to be the last day. On to dinner at a Brazilian restaurant in a big mall. So good food!
A little time to walk around the mall. Again the money tease...
We took the bus to Freemont street. Inside kinda tunnel i guess or something like that. It was a show in the ceiling. WOW. They were playing "We are the champions" and "We will rock you" It was like a show kinda in the ceileing. So cool.
We were all dancing around screaming. It was also a scene there so when the show was over they played music. And guess what they played "It's my life" with Bon Jovi. I don't know how you should know that just wrote it :P But it was Aaaaaawesome. Singing, jumping, dancing,screaming. What a perfect end!
In the bus back the music was on and we were all dancing in the eisle.
Non of us really wanted to go to bed, but at 2 we finally did :P So got a good 3 hours sleep ;)

Okey it got more than i thought, but once i start it's hard to stop and there's still so much more that happend...

Mathilda