tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-60888771633954171442024-03-13T14:23:02.680+00:00The adventures of Lauren and GaryLaurenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11843796200299426445noreply@blogger.comBlogger107125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6088877163395417144.post-7171529092758253872012-05-19T17:35:00.002+01:002012-05-19T17:45:18.764+01:00Day 97/98/99, 22nd-23rd November 2011. New Zealand - Australia - Bangkok - London - HOME.<br />
This is it, the final part. You will notice that its 2 days, but actually 3 days long, because that is how long we were actually traveling. It has kind of worked out cool that it was 99 days long, it was unintentional, but makes me wish I would have extended the trip by one day to make it to 100. I totally would have if I had known.<br />
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So, we had to get up at 4am this morning, and we rang our parents to say this was it, we would be seeing them soon. Of course it wasn't for another 2 days that we landed in London, but we were starting our journey home now. We got all our things together, and got on the airport shuttle at 5am, arriving at Auckland airport at 5.20am.<br />
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We went to the Qantas desk to check in where we were hit with some ridiculous charges, which is why I will never fly with them again. To cut a VERY long story short, if we checked in our extra luggage in NZ and didn't pick it up again until London, then we would have had to pay thousands of dollars for that. The only other option was to check the luggage in for each flight seperatley for each flight. Because we wanted to do this, Qantas charged us for wanting to pick up our own bags and check them in again. Yes, rather than them them do the extra work of moving our luggage between our transfer flights, we were going to do it ourselves, and they were charging us for it...!!! We angrily paid a $300 'fee' to be able to pick up our own bags, and then made our way through security to wait for our flight to Sydney.<br />
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While we were waiting for the flight, I bought the Kardashian's book, I love them lol. There were computers in the departure lounge so I went on facebook while we waited and got given the great news by Dean that he was coming to visit us in London next month, so we were excited to hear that. Then it was time to get on the first of our flights. It was only going to be a short one, and it went really quickly.</div>
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When we landed, we did all the boring stuff again, went through security (where they were filming that border security tv show) picked up our luggage, and then made our way to the departures side of the airport to wait until we could check in for the next flight.</div>
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I wish we could have spent some time in Australia, but because of money there was no way we could have afforded to visit properly. The first thing we did was get some lunch, even though it was really early in the morning there. The lunch was really nice, the food was much nicer than what we'd had in NZ. After lunch we had about 3 hours until we could even check in for our flight.</div>
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We found an area where we could sit with 4 suitcases and 4 heavy pieces of hand luggage, and spent the next 3 hours taking it in turns wandering around while the other one sat with the bags. I finished my Kardashians book and it was just a really long boring wait, until we could check in for our flight.</div>
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Luckily, because the rest of the flights home were with British Airways, we only had to pay once for the extra luggage. This time it was only about $50 a bag, proving how ridiculous Qantas's prices were. Once we were checked in and through security, it was time for some (more) shopping. They had a Victoria's Secret and I just could not help myself. I bought a cute tshirt and a purse. I know I really didn't need to buy anything else, but we had spent so much money on this trip, why stop now? I also had to buy some water as I had stupidly bought loads before we went through security and of course they had taken it off me.</div>
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Before we got on the plane, we got some dinner, even though it was more like lunch time, our timings were way off lol. I had some really nice pasta, I can't remember what Gary had but he didn't like it. We also wanted to buy some food and snacks for the flight, but there was nothing to buy really, we ended up buying some gross looking sandwiches that we didn't end up eating.</div>
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It was soon time to board, and the plane took off from Australia at about 5pm. When we were in the air, I read a bit, I was re-reading the Hunger Games again, and listened to my ipod for a bit while Gary did his usual and watched as many films as possible.</div>
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I had pre-booked us seats at the back of the plane where the seats are in 2's so nobody was sitting next to us. Although we ended up with this really annoying girl in front of us who kept talking to us. She kept making conversation every time she caught my eye so I had to make an effort to not look in her direction.</div>
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Even though we still had about 7 hours until we reached Bangkok, where we would have to get off the plane and get back on again, I took some sleeping tablets, hoping to get some sleep. Next thing I knew I was waking up after about 6 hours sleep, and it was nearly time to land in Bangkok. I was very pleased and surprised by this situation.</div>
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Flying over Bangkok at night was amazing, it was all lit up, and made me really want to not get back on the plane when we got off, but go and explore instead. Of course we couldn't, but if we had the money, I would have just stayed there. Annoyingly, we had to go though security again, and they took all my water away from me AGAIN. It was about midnight and there were no shops open in the airport so I was angry and thirsty. Bangkok airport was really exciting, especially as we have never been to Asia before. It made me really want to visit.</div>
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Soon enough we got back on the plane, and just as we were about to take off, there was a problem with it. The electricity in the cabin was broken and the air-con didn't work. Oh my god, it was so hot. For 2 hours we had to sit there in the pitch dark, boiling hot. I was not happy. Of course Gary managed to fall asleep right then, and I was just sitting there dying of over heating, and I had no water as it had been taken away.</div>
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Eventually the problem was fixed, and we were on our way to London. This was the final leg of our journey home and I just felt sick with worry and anxiousness. I was so scared about everything that faced us when we got home. Of course we had the issue of telling our parents that we had got married without them. But mostly I was worried about everything returning to normal. I really loved the traveling life, and seeing so many beautiful places, meeting so many people, and experiencing so many things. I was not ready to go back to life how it was before we had left. I have made no secret of how much I hate living in London/ the UK, and it really upset me to think about coming back.</div>
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I just listened to music for a while and watched tv, and took some more sleeping tablets and fell asleep. I was lucky again and woke up just a couple of hours before we were due to land in London. This was it, it was all coming to an end :( It was funny that we had been so worried about this over 24 hour flight (since we left Australia) but it had gone so quickly and we actually found it really easy!</div>
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As we approached London, it actually looked really nice, it was still dark because it was so early in the morning, and we flew over the London Eye and it was all lit up really pretty. Then we landed, it was the weirdest feeling ever and I can't explain it. It's not like how you feel when you come back from an amazing holiday, it was worse. Knowing how long you had looked forward to it for years, and had the best 3 months of your life, and knowing you would never be as happy and free again as you have been in the past 3 months. It sucked.</div>
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The only thing that was of course exciting, was knowing we were so close to seeing our families again. We got through the airport as quickly as we could (had the worst luck waiting for our luggage, 3 of our bags were the very first ones out, and our 4th bag was the very last bag out) and couldn't wait to see our parents. As we came out of the airport, and saw our mums and dads, we ran to them, it was so nice to finally see them again. I blurted out that we were married straight away because I was so scared of how they would react, luckily it was happiness all around! :)</div>
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And thats pretty much it... we drove home, saw our brothers and sisters, unpacked, and ate some welcome home cupcakes that my sister had made us.</div>
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I feel just as sad coming to the end of this trip report as I did coming to the end of the trip. It was over so quickly and I am so grateful for the experiences we had. It has been so lovely for me to re-live them through this blog, its great to know I can look back on this for the rest of my life to remember what fun we had.</div>
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We did have the time of our lives, and thank you to those of you that have read this the whole way through, it means so much to me. I hope you have enjoyed reading about our adventure as much as I have enjoyed writing it. Lots of love xxxxx</div>
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Today was the day we were starting the journey home. Technically we weren't on our way until tomorrow, but we were going to the airport today. It was weird waking up in our little bedroom in Fabian and Treena's house for the last time. We woke up at 10am, and had planned to leave at 12, so we had 2 hours this morning to get ready and make sure we had packed everything. We showered, ate, and double checked everything, including the weight of all our luggage, which thankfully was not overweight, and then it was time to leave.<br />
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The drive to Auckland airport took about 3 hours, Gary and Fabian sat in the front of the car chatting the whole way. I was just feeling really sad to be going home, but also excited to see my family. When we arrived at our airport hotel, we said goodbye to Fabian, which made Gary sad because I know how much he had missed him when they had left the UK, but we knew we would definitely be seeing them again.<br />
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Our airport hotel was ok, there was nothing around though. We walked 10 minutes down the road and found a shop, so we bought some snacks and breakfast for the morning, and then went back to the room and watched TV for a few hours.<br />
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We walked a bit further down the road at dinner time, and found a resteraunt to eat in, the food was so shit. One thing I was definitely not going to miss about New Zealand was the food. I really did not enjoy the food in NZ and could not wait to get home and eat some comfort food. I can't even remember what we ate but it was bad.<br />
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There was nothing at all to do in the area, so we went back to the room and just watched TV for the night. It felt so weird that after all this time, it was over. I was really excited to see my family, but apart from that I did not want to go home at all. I hate London and I feel like there is nothing here for me, and there is so much more in the world I want to see. I was not ready at all to go home and go back to normality. Of course I was so nervous about telling our parents the big secret news. Wasn't sure how they would react, so it was making me really worried.Laurenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11843796200299426445noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6088877163395417144.post-37281361219606657462012-05-19T15:35:00.000+01:002012-05-19T15:35:12.080+01:00Day 95, 20th November 2011. Tauranga, New Zealand<br />
As soon as we woke up today it was time to start sorting everything out because it was nearly time to go home. Fabian wanted us to go round his parents house, but we had so much to do so I didn't go. Gary said he was going and wouldn't be long. I painted my nails and then started getting all our stuff together. It took me ages. We had so much stuff and it was all a big mess so I spent the next few hours organizing it all.<br />
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Gary finally returned 3 hours later (I was not impressed with him) and helped me pack it all in the suitcases. We had way too much stuff, luckily Treena had a suitcase that she was going to throw away so she gave it to us and we used that as well. We had 4 suitcases packed full, along with 4 pieces of hand luggage too.<br />
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Once we had the majority of our stuff packed away, we went out to enjoy our last proper day in New Zealand. We went out for lunch with Fabian and Treena, and their friends that had come round last night. We went to a nice restaraunt that had some quite nice food. We had these big platters with loads of food one. It was a nice time and afterwards we looked around in a few shops and then went to the beach.<br />
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It was a nice way to spend our last afternoon in Tauranga</div>
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When we left, we went to the supermarket to get some food for dinner and had a look in a few more shops too. Gary finally embraced the New Zealand way and walked around barefoot, which he had been laughing at since we had got there. I got a really cute stripy jumper in one of the shops, like we had any space to pack it, so I would have to wear it home.</div>
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When we got in, we made pasta for dinner, and packed last minute bits before watching the film 'Just go with it' this evening. I can't remember what it was about, but it had Jennifer Aniston in it, and I love her. Before we went to bed we had to say our goodbye's to Treena because she would be at work tomorrow when we left for the airport. I was sad to say bye to her because she is so lovely and it was so nice of them to let us stay. Then it was time for us to go to bed, it was crazy that tomorrow we were starting our journey home.</div>
<br />Laurenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11843796200299426445noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6088877163395417144.post-86917488091456581312012-05-15T20:08:00.000+01:002012-05-15T20:08:14.298+01:00Day 94,19th November 2011. Tauranga, New Zealand<br />
Had a little bit of a lazy day/boring morning this morning. After the little road trip over the past few days we were kind of tired. I stayed in my pajamas until 1pm, watching TV, and skyping with people.<br />
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We finally decided to get dressed and go out to celebrate our 1 month wedding anniversary. I couldn't believe it had been one month already, in some ways it felt like we had been married forever, but in other ways it felt like it happened yesterday. We had decided to go to the cinema to see Breaking Dawn.<br />
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The film was really good, the best of all the Twilight films so far I think, we both really enjoyed it. The cinema was so tiny, I have never been in a cinema that small before.<br />
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After the film, we walked around town for a while, went in a few shops, and I bought 2 cardigans and a belt. When we got back, we relaxed for a while, and then Fabian and Treena's friends that I think were called Natalie and Dan, and we ordered some pizza's and watched Super 8 this evening. We didn't really do anything and this day seems quite boring, but it was actually a nice day.<br />
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The boys started watching Transformers, and it was getting quite late, so I went to bed, and Gary soon followed. He must have been really tired if he couldn't even watch transformers!Laurenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11843796200299426445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6088877163395417144.post-91198254466940973362012-05-15T19:51:00.002+01:002012-05-15T19:51:27.570+01:00Day 93, 18th November 2011. Waitomo - Tauranga, New Zealand<br />
Woke up this morning quite early because we had to get to our last adventure of the trip before heading back to Tauranga. We had some left over cereal from yesterday still, so we ate that in the hotel room for breakfast before checking out.<br />
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Today we were going on a 'Black water rafting' adventure in the Waitomo caves. Waitomo is a place that is a huge network of underground caves, and they actually have glow worms in them, which are the only source of light. There are plenty of ways to visit the caves, like boat tours and stuff, but we were going on the most extreme version which involved floating in a ring like the lazy river, but it was far from lazy.<br />
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The place we had to go was only 5 minutes down the road, so we were quite early. We just sat around waiting for it to start really, there was a tour group in there also waiting, they seemed a lot like Trek America, but a New Zealand version. They all seemed to be having so much fun together and it made me feel really sad because I was missing my Trek America friends so much.<br />
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Our guide soon came along and took us to go get our wetsuits and stuff on. Mine was way too tight, and I really struggled to get it on, but they would not let me have a bigger one. I was really annoyed about it because all the other girls if they said theirs was too tight were allowed a bigger one. Anyway, I finally got into it and we also had to wear helmets and welly boot things too, I was so uncomfortable.<br />
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Once we were all suited up, we had to drive in a van to the entrance of the cave that we were going into. When we got there, before we went in, we had to practice falling of the side of a small cliff with our iner tubes. The water was so cold, but it was really fun. </div>
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Then we went into the caves and it was so pitch dark in there. Luckily we had lamps on our helmets, but when they were turned off you couldn't see a thing. It was fun floating around in the dark, but also kind of scary. We had to jump of the side of ledges and stuff and I kept thinking I was going to hurt myself, but luckily I didn't. There was one bit where there was only about 10 inches between the water and the top of the cave and we had to lay flat in the rings because it was too shallow to stand. I hated that bit because it felt really claustrophobic and I felt like I was going to drown.</div>
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When we got to the bit where there were loads of glow worms, we turned off our head lamps so it was completely dark, and they were glowing like lights all over the walls. Of course I have no photos, but I urge you to google Waitomo glowworm caves to see what they look like, it was amazing. </div>
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The entire thing lasted 3 hours and by the end of it we were so freezing cold, my hands were shaking. The guides thought it would be fun to make us turn all our lights off for the last bit and feel our way out of the cave, I hated that because it was so black that I couldn't see a thing, and that made me panic. When we were finally out, we drove back in the van to the reception place to change out of out wetsuits, I was so glad to get it off, and then we got given some free soup to warm up.</div>
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We then drove back to Tauranga, which was about a 2 hour drive. We got back in mid afternoon and did some laundry, then Fabian and Treena got in from work soon after. We told them about all the fun stuff we did, and then we went out to the supermarket so get some stuff for dinner. I think me and Gary got some pasta and had it with some chicken, but I didn't write it down. After dinner we watched TV for a while, then I went to have a shower and started sorting out all our laundry.</div>
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This was the night that it really hit me that this time next week it would all be over and we would be at home. I got really upset about it, thinking about how unhappy I was this time a year ago, working long hours in a retail job I hated, dreading christmas and all the horrible sale shoppers that would come my way. At that point in my life, looking forward to this trip was the only thing that kept me going, and now it was almost over. So I just spent the next few hours feeling sorry for myself, wishing that I could relive the last 3 months all over again. Spending every day having fun, and also being with Gary every moment, was something that I had got way too used to, and I really was not ready to let go of it.</div>
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I woke up feeling really cold, quite early in the morning, and then realized, the hotel room door was open!! I don't know how it happened or how long it had been open. I was really scared for about 20 seconds until I remembered we were in New Zealand, and the likelihood of a crime being committed were way lower than what we are used to. I went to shut the door, after checking around the room thoroughly, then laid back in bed waiting for Gary to wake up.<br />
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Yesterday we had bought cereal and milk at the supermarket, so we had that for breakfast in the room. We also made ourselves some sandwiches and snacks for a little packed lunch so we could eat by the lake again. The room was really nice and I was sad to leave it, as it was so lovely. I would have liked to stay for another night, but we would have run out of things to do in Taupo.<br />
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We checked out of the room and drove into the center of town, and parked up to have a look around the shops. We wandered around for about 2 hours, its definitely a really nice area. We didn't really buy anything, apart from there was a store that had an underwear sale on, and I got loads of Elle Macpherson bras for really cheap, so I was then happy for the day.<br />
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Also saw this hilarious store, who needs Walmart when you can go to Woolmart LOL</div>
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Once we were done wandering around, we went down to the lakefront to eat our lunch, then made our way back to the place where Gary was going to do his bungy.</div>
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Then it was time!! I was really not happy about Gary doing this, it seemed way more dangerous and scary than the skydive. But he was adamant that he wanted to do it, he really tried to get me to do it, but there was no way it was happening.</div>
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When we went in, it all happened so quickly. There was nobody else there waiting, so as soon as we walked in the started getting Gary ready straight away. I didn't even really get a chance to prepare myself before they were leading him away from me.</div>
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It was so scary watching, luckily he was fine and loved it. It was over so quickly though, it was such a short experience. The longest part was waiting for him to come back up. A boat went out to get him and then he had to walk for ages uphill to get back to me, so I was waiting for him for about 20 minutes wondering where he was. At times like this when I get bored I take photos of random stuff, e.g. my feet.</div>
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We finally arrived in Waitomo in the late afternoon. We checked into our hotel room, which was ok, it was nice, but not as good as last night's one. After we had settled in and showered we went out to find some food. There were no restaraunts or supermarkets anywhere, so we didn't know what to do. That was the only problem with some places in New Zealand, there was just nothing around. </div>
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Luckily, I woke up feeling a lot better than I did last night, my headache was mostly gone. I was glad, I'm one of those people who really can't deal with feeling unwell, it really upsets me because I just want to feel ok. We checked out of our room at 10am, and it was raining, so it really did feel like England.<br />
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Then we started riding, we had a little practice area first where the man could see how fast we were all going and then put us in order so we didn't overtake each other in the forest. As expected, Gary was first, then the Indian guy, and me and the Indian girl were at the back. It actually worked out quite well, because me and her were going the same speed and stayed together throughout the course. Actually I was a bit faster than her, so that made me feel like I was the brave girl LOL.</div>
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It was set out in quite a good way. You would have about a 10 minute drive before you reached a checkpoint where everyone had to wait and meet before we carried on. Gary and the guy with him most of the time got to go on a little extra bit because me and the other girl were so far behind them. I feel like I was going really fast, so they must have been going extremely fast.</div>
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Overall, it was really fun, but I preferred the one we did in Mexico. Then we drove to our hotel to check in, and it was so nice, and the room was big. We were so glad after yesterdays tiny little thing. </div>
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Today was the first day of our little adventure road trip. I was so glad to finally be doing something exciting and going to see some different places. We got up at 8am, and we were all packed up and ready to leave by 9am. When we had been driving for 15 minutes, we had to turn back because Gary had forgotten his wedding ring! He was terrible for losing it, it was too big so he was always taking it off when he did things where it might fall off, and then forgetting to put it back on. So we were half an hour behind schedule once all that had happened.<br />
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Luckily Rotorua was not very far away, and that was our first stop. The first place we were going to was Paradise Valley wildlife park. This was the place I was most excited about visiting in New Zealand because we could pet lion cubs. We didn't go to the 'Lion Man' park because it was really far away from where we were.<br />
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We got our tickets, went in, and the first place we went was straight to the Lion cub area. </div>
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I was SOOOO excited to see them, a real life Simba and Nala. We had to wait there for about 10 minutes for them to be brought out. They were the sweetest little things I have ever seen. </div>
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Because they had just woken up from a nap they were so excitable. They wasn't even keeping still for one second. It was the cutest thing I have ever seen, there are no words for how adorable they were. Their names were Benjy and Bella, and they were just 3 months old.</div>
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After we had seen the lion cubs, we walked around the rest of the wildlife park. It was small but lovely. It was so different to anything we have ever been to before, we could feed all the animals and there were not loads of tiny enclosures or anything. The only problem I had was that tis pig bit me! It was kind of my fault though because there was a sign saying keep your hand flat when feeding it, and I didn't.</div>
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Deer! I love deer, they make me feel like Snow White. </div>
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They were so sweet and friendly, they loved being fed, and kept licking my hands. They didn't mid being stroked at all and seemed to enjoy interacting with people.<br />
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Eeeee baby ducklings, cute!</div>
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Wallabies were my favorite cute animals of the day, they were so friendly. I was in love with them, they were so sweet.</div>
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I could have spent all day with them, I wanted to just get in their enclosure and have a cuddle with them. They totally would have cuddled me back too, they were so loving and kind. They were so excited to see us and were eating the food and licking our hands and also grabbing our fingers with their little paws. I loved them so much.</div>
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This duck's facial expression makes me laugh...</div>
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Ducklings again :)</div>
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I felt so bad for this little guy, the greedy goats had taken so much of our food, and we ran out right by the time we got to him. He was the very last animal and I got the impression that everybody ran out of food before they got to him. It made me really sad, he looked really depressed, like he thought nobody loved him because everybody else got fed except him. I stroked him loads as a way to try and say sorry.</div>
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We then passed the lion cubs so went to see them again, they had worn themselves out and were now really sleepy.</div>
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More sweet ducklings, this one was like half the size of the others, such a sweetie.</div>
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When the keepers came in and fed them they got really excited, there was meat juice flying everywhere and some nearly got on me. Totally gross, but at least they were enjoying their food. It was so cool to see how powerful they are just ripping into the meat.</div>
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When we were finished at the park we went to check into our hotel. We had booked it online yesterday and it was so cheap so we didn't know what to expect. I don't remember how much we paid in NZ Dollars, but I think it was the equivalent of about £15. When we arrived at the hotel we realized why it was so cheap. It was the tiniest room ever!! We laughed at it for about 10 minutes before we even went in, this is Gary planking across the whole room.</div>
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Once we had enough of the spa we started to head back towards the hotel. We wanted to get some dinner but everything was shut. We got back to the room hungry and I had a headache so I wasn't feeling so good. There was nowhere for us to get any food so I just laid in bed feeling bad because my head was hurting so much. We watched the Celebrity Apprentice for ages on TV, it was the american one where that country singer guy won, and then just fell asleep.</div>
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<span id="goog_1347514340"></span><span id="goog_1347514341"></span>Laurenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11843796200299426445noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6088877163395417144.post-21874302620663545112012-05-09T20:33:00.001+01:002012-05-09T20:33:36.214+01:00Day 89, 14th November 2011. Tauranga, New Zealand<br />
Today we had a pretty shit day, we had so much to sort out and organize for the week ahead and the journey home too. Again this is a really boring day so you may not want to read it.<br />
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This morning we spent about 3 hours on the phone to various unhelpful people at British Airways who wasted loads of our time. After the whole thing was over we still were none the wiser on what our luggage allowance was going to be on the way home and I was not at all happy with them. I will never ever fly with BA again and would advise that nobody ever does, because their customer service is awful. Virgin Atlantic all the way!<br />
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We than had some lunch and afterwards I was saying to Gary that we needed to make a plan for our road trip this week. Gary was being his usual unorganized self and was not doing what he told me he would. I had to moan at him a bit because all he wanted to do was sit and watch films, but then he listened to me and we had a look through leaflets and booked some really good activites to do this week. I was really excited because we were going to do some really fun stuff.<br />
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Later in the afternoon we watched the first Twilight film, as I had just finished the book. I had only seen it once and thought it was awful, and seeing it the second time after reading the book, I thought it was even worse. We also watched Limitless with Bradley Cooper in it, because we love him, and the film was really good.<br />
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We went to take the DVD's back and went to the supermarket to get some snacks for our trip and also got some chicken for dinner, which was really nice.<br />
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When we got in we just showered and ate dinner and packed a little case for our road trip that we were starting tomorrow.Laurenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11843796200299426445noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6088877163395417144.post-5858747940368030452012-05-08T20:34:00.000+01:002012-05-08T20:34:32.291+01:00Day 88, 13th November 2011. Tauranga, New Zealand<br />
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going to a place called the Adrenalin Forest, which is like Go Ape in the UK.
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were given our harnesses and everything, the people that worked there told us
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Once we started doing it, I realised it was not as fun as Go
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Once we got onto the 4<sup>th</sup> course, the zip lines
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harder and harder, I could not do them. I kept nearly falling down and hurting
myself. It required so much upper body strength, that I just do not have. Gary
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to the highest zip lines, but without doing any of the hard stuff. Fabian also
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Funny story: People in NZ seem to call zip lines ‘flying
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When Gary was all finished, we drove back to Tauranga, and stopped at the supermarket on the way to get some food for a BBQ this evening. When we got home we started getting all the food ready, and Fabian's parents came round for the BBQ and it was really nice. They bought their doggie with them, who was sweet, but she didn't get along with Archie, she was really boisterous with him so they had to be kept away from each other. </div>
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The food was really good, more burgers haha! I really enjoyed it and we just didn't really do anything in the night, just watched TV, read, and played with the iPad, before going to bed.</div>
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<br />Laurenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11843796200299426445noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6088877163395417144.post-45639553461524142372012-05-08T20:06:00.001+01:002012-05-08T20:06:06.711+01:00Day 86/87, 11th/12th November 2011. Tauranga, New ZealandSorry to be boring, but these are going to be another 2 days in one post because nothing interesting really happened, Gary was sick so we hardly did anything.<br />
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On Friday 11th November, we woke up planning to go to the beach or something, but the weather wasn't that great, and Gary had gotten a really bad cold. We decided not to do anything so he could get better for our road trip next week. We went to Countdown to get some food bits, and we also rented some DVD's from the rental store opposite, getting loads of films to keep up entertained.<br />
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When we got in, we watched Bridesmaids, love that film, so funny. Then I made some chocolate brownies with some ingredients I had got from the store while Gary watched some crappy English film. I don't know what it was called because that's all it says in my diary from that day lol. I also finished the first Twilight book, and I actually really liked it. I started reading a new book that I had got in Disneyland, which was about the life of Walt Disney, it was really good and so interesting.<br />
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Also according to my diary, we made sausages for dinner, I don't know what we had with them because I didn't write it. After dinner we showered and sorted the room out because it was a little messy, then before bed we watched Water for Elephants. I had wanted to see this film for ages and we really liked it. I love Reese Witherspoon so much so I knew I would love it.<br />
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On Saturday 12th November, we pretty much did the same as yesterday. Lazed around the house because Gary still wasn't feeling great. Watched Pirates of the Caribbean 4, that was probably the highlight of the day. Gary felt a little better in the afternoon, so we went for a walk around the shops, but didn't end up buying anything. When we got back, we made burgers for dinner again, and then watched Scary Movie as it was on TV.<br />
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Can I just add in here, I'm sorry these days seem so boring, we seemed to waste a lot of time in NZ doing nothing, but we were so exhausted and running out of money, that these kind of days seemed to be a regular occurrence.Laurenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11843796200299426445noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6088877163395417144.post-68813965735617484852012-05-08T19:47:00.000+01:002012-05-08T19:47:27.339+01:00Day 85, 10th November 2011. Tauranga/Rotorua, New Zealand<br />
This morning we drove to Rotorua to go on the luge. Rotorua was about an hour away and there was loads of stuff to do there. Me and Gary were going to come back next week, so today we just did the luge.<br />
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Just as we were leaving, Gary realised he had left his jumper in the cafe so I went in to get it for him, I had to pass the posh restaraunt on the way and I tripped over a step and fell flat on my face. Loads of people stared at me, and Gary was sad that he had missed it because he would have found it really funny.</div>
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When we got back to the car, Fabian had locked the keys in there, so him and Gary did something to get them out. I honestly can't remember what they did, but I think it involved taking a bit of the door off. I clearly wasn't paying much attention. Once we had the keys, we drove back to Tauranga which took about an hour again. </div>
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When we got home, Treena was back from work, and her and Fabian were getting ready to leave because they were going to a wedding in Auckland this weekend. When they had left, we made some dinner, burgers and sweet potato fries (yum) and settled down and ate it while watching The Lion King. Gary denies he is as much of a Disney lover as me, but he had bought this film last week in the mall on blue-ray because he wanted to watch it so much. I told him not to get it because we have so many copes of it at home, but he said he needed it haha.</div>
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I never normally cry at the Lion King, I don't really cry at any films, but for some reason I cried my eyes out when we watched it. I think I had just had such an emotional year that the storyline really got to me. When the film was finished we watched all the special features. I think that is one of our favorite things to watch on Disney DVD's because they always have so much cool stuff on there. Once we had watched every possible extra feature we just went to bed.</div>
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Now that we were finally doing some activities, today we were going rock climbing. Again, I have no real detail about the day because for some reason I hardly wrote my diary on this week, so it's all from memory.<br />
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I have no idea what time we got up and went out, but when we arrived at the rock climbing place, they had glow in the dark mini golf there, so we did that before we did the climbing. It was fun, I lost, as usual. It was really hard in the dark because we could not see when there were bumps on the ground so the balls were rolling all over the place.<br />
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Then it was time to do some climbing, there was only 2 other people there with us so we pretty much had the whole place to ourselves. It was quite a big place with loads of different sections of the walls you could climb up, as well as other things you could climb like a swinging ladder thing.<br />
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I wasn't too excited about rock climbing because I didn't think I would be very good at it (I was right). We went in this practice tunnel thing first that we could fall down on.<br />
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Then Fabian had his go and of course he was excellent at it.</div>
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My turn, and I was terrible. Actually terrible. I could not get a good grip and kept panicking that I was going to fall. I was ok when I was moving but as soon as I kept still I started slipping. I did manage to get all the way to the top but when I got there and couldn't go any higher I started freaking out because I knew I was going to fall.</div>
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I totally hated it, which is so silly because all the new things I had tried recently, it was hardly anything too bad, but I really did not enjoy it at all.</div>
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We were going on a hike up the mount today. It was some mountain that was in Tauranga, called Mount Maungaui, but Gary and I had no idea how to pronounce that, and Fabian and Treena just called it the mount, so we did too. </div>
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A few weeks or so before hand there had been this big oil spill or something, we didn't really know much about it because we had been living in our America bubble, but it was in the news a lot at the time people have told me. Gary is telling me that an oil container hit some rocks or something and I think we could see it from the shore. There were also people there doing work on the beach like making sure it was all clean or some other official business like that.</div>
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It was crazy that all this scenery was just 10 minutes from their house. I hope that one day I can live somewhere beautiful. The saddest thing in my life is that we are stuck living in London because we have no money or resources to move somewhere else. One day we will live in a beautiful place and I will be happy.</div>
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Before we went to New Zealand, the only thing I really knew about it was that people joked that there were a lot of sheep there. Well on our walk today, we saw loads!! It was cool how they were just casually roaming around with no restraints, compared to the fact that the only sheep we see around here are closed in on a little field near the reservoir. </div>
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The boys were walking really fast, and kept moaning at me for being slow. I got a bit stroppy and went back down to sit on the beach while they continued. I had planned for Gary and I to go up there again at the end of the trip anyway. I know it seems a bit silly that I did that but I was just getting annoyed because I could tell they were both thinking OMG why is she walking so slow, and my childish side got the better of me and I gave up. I also think the lack of food I had been eating meant I had zero energy. All I had eaten was chocolate, sweets, and the occasional bit of fruit. I had not eaten any proper meals and it was definitely taking its toll on my energy levels.</div>
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When the boys got down, we went to play mini golf. It was fun. I do love a game of mini golf, and I lost as usual. Afterwards we went home and I was feeling really upset about the lack of food I was eating. None of the restaraunts did any nice meals, and I know this makes me sound like a total fatty, but nice food is one of the most important things in my life. Fabian and Treena had a lot of food in the house, but they were so healthy (not that theres anything wrong with that, its great) but I am not healthy at all, so I'd rather eat nothing than eat something thats good for you but doesn't taste as good. </div>
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All I wanted to do was lay in bed, and Gary said he was going out for a little while with Fabian. When he got back he had the biggest surprise for me. He had bought burgers, sausages, white bread, cheese, sweet potato fries, all my favorite things. I was literally the happiest girl in the world right then. He made us a dinner of hot dogs with cheese on and I was so in love with him right then its unreal. I know I sound like the most unhealthy food obsessed person in the world, and really shouldn't be so attached to food like that. But once I start getting fat I'll worry about it then. Haha.</div>
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<span id="goog_1964898344"></span><span id="goog_1964898345"></span>Laurenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11843796200299426445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6088877163395417144.post-90813898140014397432012-05-07T18:55:00.002+01:002012-05-07T18:55:30.246+01:00Day 82, 7th November 2011. Tauranga, New Zealand<br />
I'll keep this day short because I was so grumpy in it haha.<br />
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Woke up and basically had a big argument with Gary because I had planned an amazing trip to America for us and had left him in charge of finding us things to do in New Zealand, and he had done nothing to prepare.<br />
To cut a lonnnggg story short, he finally got his act together and looked up some stuff for us to do this week. Fabian was going to be off work for a few days so we were going to go and do some fun stuff finally. This week we were going to stay in the local area and do things, and Gary said next week he would organize for us to do a little road trip around New Zealand and do some cool stuff.<br />
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When the evening came and I was in a better mood, Gary took me out for dinner to an Italia/Seafood restaraunt in town. I was really excited for it because I was having an obsession with fish at the moment. I think I ate fish almost every day when we were in New Zealand. To start we had some mussels which were really good.<br />
I don't think it's normal to take food photos over there, because the waitresses and the people at the tables surrounding us literally laughed out loud at me when I took a photo of the food, so I didn't take any more after this incident... LOL<br />
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We then both had pasta for dinner which wasn't very nice at all. I can't remember what exactly we had but neither of our meals were very nice. There wasn't anything really wrong with them, they were just not really good meals. I felt really bad because Gary had made the effort to cheer me up and we had ended up with bad food. </div>
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These next 2 days are so boring that I will condense them into one post to get them over and done with.<br />
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Saturday the 5th we woke up really late, like midday, and then at about 1pm we went into town with Fabian and Treena. They were meeting some friends for coffee and me and Gary went to do some shopping. Gary wanted to get some new clothes but didn't end up getting anything. I on the other hand, got a really cute blue and white striped dress that I am so in love with, and a t-shirt as well. I also bought the first Twilight book as Kirsty had convinced me to read it because she is in love with them. We went to get some lunch at Subway. Subway in NZ is terrible, I would not reccomend it at all. They didn't even have ketchup.<br />
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When we were finished and we met up with Fabian and Treena again, we all went to the supermarket, and I got myself a bottle of ketchup to keep with me at all times LOL what a freak. When we got in I started reading my Twilight book, and it was good, much better than the film. We also did some laundry.<br />
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When it got late enough that it was morning time in the UK, we skyped with our niece Abby which was really fun, it was so nice to see her, she had grown up so much in the time we had been away. After that we went to sleep.<br />
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On Sunday 6th we slept in again until about 11am. We really were stuck in a sleepy rut. Fabian and Treena had gone out to his parents house, so we just ate some cereal and waited for them to return. I wanted to have a shower but our towels were not dry still after doing laundry yesterday afternoon, so I couldn't.<br />
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At about 1pm, Fabian and Treena got back and asked if we wanted to go to the mall with them. Well of course I wanted to go shopping, so off we went! I had a bit of a shocking moment when I looked on the mall map to see where Forever 21 and Victoria's Secret were, only to be hit with the realization that we were not in the USA any more. However, I did find a store that sold really cute pajamas and they were on sale, so then I was happy again. Gary and Fabian spent agessssssss in a DVD store, so me and Treena spent ages in the pajama store and I got 2 pairs. We went in some clothes stores too but I didn't find anything I liked.<br />
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We then went into a department store because Treena was looking for an outfit for a wedding. While she was in the dressing room, I had a little walk over to the beauty counters to look for a particular item, thinking that they would no way sell it in NZ because they had only just come out in the UK. I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw that they had what I was looking for, Muppet OPI nail polishes!! I was SO excited, I bought 2 of them, and they had an offer on, if you got 2 polishes you got a shatter free. I actually don't really like shatter nail polishes, I think they look super ugly, but I quite like my metallic POTC silver, so I got a metallic gold, thats actually really nice, I think it looks like a mermaid's tail.<br />
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So I was a very happy girl with my new pajamas and OPI's and Gary had bought himself an LA Lakers basketball (I think it's basketball, I don't really know much about sport) shirt. He had looked for one for ages when we were in the USA and he couldn't find one, and now we were in another country and he finally found it haha!<br />
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On the way back we stopped to get some Fish and Chips. I didn't really like it at all. The batter on the fish was really thick and soggy, and the chips were so salty. Gary also got a deep fried Moro bar, which is a chocolate bar that's popular in NZ. It was covered in batter and fried like fish. We knew it would be gross but he wanted to try it. Gary actually enjoyed it, but I had one tiny bite because he made me and I felt like I was going to puke for the next 12 hours. Literally the grossest greasiest thing I have ever tasted. I couldn't get the taste out of my mouth and it was just awful.<br />
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I was feeling a bit fed up this evening, I was really missing America, and home a little bit (but mostly America lol) and I felt sick from that gross fried chocolate bar. I spent the evening in our room on my own making friendship bracelets (haha its a therapeutic activity for me to do) and listening to songs that reminded me of America. I ate an apple but it still didn't get rid of the horrible taste in my mouth, and went to sleep quite early.Laurenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11843796200299426445noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6088877163395417144.post-22467286822449402492012-05-01T17:39:00.002+01:002012-05-01T17:39:54.943+01:00Day 79, 4th November 2011. Tauranga/Hamilton, New Zealand<br />
We woke up at 8.15am this morning to do something we were very excited about and was well overdue, to skype with our families! We set up the iPad and I text my dad so that he could get his laptop set up, and we spoke to my parents on skype for an hour. I think they were very happy to see us, because it had been over 2 months. We then skyped with Jamie and Toni (Gary's brother and his wife) for about an hour too.<br />
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We showered and got ready for the day, and I checked my facebook and Kirsty had sent me a message to check my email, I was hoping that it was going to be what I wanted it to, and it was... our wedding photos! We had the CD sent to Kirstys house because we hadn't told our parents yet so didn't want them to get a letter in the post from Las Vegas and figure out what it was.<br />
We were so excited to finally see the photos, there were some really nice ones. We spent ages and ages just looking at them, but it was a shame we couldn't share our excitement with anyone as it was still a secret. We had told Fabian and Treena yesterday, so at least when they got home from work we would be able to show them the photos.<br />
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Just after we had finished looking at them, I went on facebook, and Beverly Hills Photography had posted some of our Engagement photos. There were only about 20 of them, but they were amazing, and we loved them so much. I can't believe how many amazing photos we were getting in one day. We knew we would have to wait a while for them to send us the CD with all the photos on as there were so many of them, so it was nice to be able to see a few. They were so beautiful that it made me really excited to be able to see them all.<br />
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After that, we took Archie for a little walk around the neighbourhood. Their town was really cute and pretty, so it was nice to have a walk around.<br />
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When we got back, we just lazed in front of the TV again. We did that a lot in NZ and it seems quite a waste, but we were just so tired and exhausted from the last 11 weeks thats all we could manage lol. Also, I planned the entire trip to America, and left Gary in charge of finding us things to do in New Zealand, and this is also why we weren't doing anything, because Gary is the most disorganized person that I know.</div>
Luckily they had some good shows, today I watched the Ellen DeGeneres show, I love Ellen, and than when Fabian and Treena got back from work we got ready to go out because we were going out to a Casino in Hamilton tonight.<br />
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Once we were all ready, we left, it was about an hour and a half drive away. When we got there we went to a restaraunt to have some dinner. The food was nice, but again, they didn't have any real ketchup, which made me sad. The place was really nice though.<br />
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After dinner we went into the actual casino. It wasn't like what I would call a proper casino in Vegas, we were like the youngest people in there lol. Gary loves to have a bit of a gamble, and over the next few hours he managed to gain more money than he spent, so that worked out well for us. </div>
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Finally, at about 11pm, everyone was finished gambling and we went home. I fell asleep on the hour and a half journey home, and as soon as we got back, I only woke up long enough to get out of the car, brush my teeth, and get in bed. Treena went to bed too, but Gary and Fabian stayed up playing Monopoly on the Playstation again. He didn't come to bed until after 2am, so they must have really been enjoying their game.</div>
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Woke up at 9.30am after a very good sleep, I ate some cereal for breakfast and Gary woke up soon after and also had some breakfast.<br />
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Gary and I literally spent the entire day on the sofa. I made bracelets, we watched TV, we read, we played on the iPad. That was it. I ordered my photopass photos on the Disneyland website, and they had an offer on so I got the CD with all the images for really cheap, I think it was half price or something like that, but I can't remember exactly how much I paid. That was the highlight of my day as we didn't do anything also at all. Gary went for a little drive around the town to see if he could remember where everything was, but I didn't go as I was in the middle of doing our photopass.<br />
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When Fabian and Treena got home from work, they made dinner, but Gary felt a little sick so he laid down for a while. He felt better after a while and him and Fabian played Monopoly on the playstation for a while, Treena had work to do again, and I went to bed early. So yeah, a pretty boring day, I promise it will start to get a little more interesting, after this. We were just so exhausted that we just needed a few days doing nothing.</div>
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Technically day 76/1st November 2011, didn't exist for us, because we jumped forward an entire day on the flight, so I will resume from day 77, the 2nd November 2011.<br />
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So after I took the sleeping tablets, it knocked me out for a good 8 hours or so, I was literally so surprised when I woke up and saw what the time was. I never sleep on planes, ever. It was totally the most unexpected thing ever. It was now 9am LA time, on the 1st November. I changed my phone to New Zealand time, and we went back to 5am, but jumped forward a day, to the 2nd November.<br />
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We had about 4 hours until we were due to land, so I watched the Hangover 2, I just love those films, so that kept me happy and entertained for a while. I then ate some of the snacks we had bought last night at the airport, and saw how close we were to landing.<br />
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Even though it was the longest flight we had ever done, it felt like the shortest. I actually could not believe how much I had slept and how quickly it had gone. Gary had slept quite a bit too, but he watched quite a few films at the start of the flight so he hadn't slept as much as me. I sat listening to my ipod for half an hour and then it was time to land. That was the best and easiest flight I have ever been on!</div>
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We had arrived in Auckland, New Zealand. It took us about an hour to go through security and stuff, we had a bit of a panic because we had to fill in the tourist visa card things with the address we were staying at, which we didn't know because we were staying with a friend. </div>
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I don't think I actually mentioned this before, but the reason we were going to New Zealand was to visit one of Gary's very good friend Fabian, and his wife Treena. They used to live over in the UK and Gary and Fabian had worked together and had been the best of friends. Gary was so sad when he had left, so we had always said that we would be coming to New Zealand to visit them. Seeing as we were already half way there in Los Angeles, it would have been silly not to go the other half of the way around the world and come to see them. </div>
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Anyway, Gary managed to text Fabian when we were waiting in line at security to get their home address, so that we would be allowed in the country. As we were walking through the airport, looking out of the windows, my first sight of New Zealand made me thing, 'oh great, it looks just like England'. It really did, it was rainy and everything looked the same as it did back home. I said to Gary what has he done bringing us to a place that's exactly like England. </div>
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Once we were though security and had collected our bags, we came out of the airport to see Fabian waiting for us and Gary was so happy to see him again, it had been about 2 years since they left the UK. They hugged a lot and then we all got in the car to drive to Tauranga, where they live. It was about a 2 hour drive, and luckily, it had brightened up and I got to see that New Zealand was really pretty. It was very green and we had some nice scenery on the drive. </div>
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We arrived at their house at about midday, and it was really nice. Treena was still at work, because she is a teacher, but we got all our stuff in and got settled in our room. We met their doggie, called Archie, who Gary totally loved, and their neighbours dog called Zero, who was only 8 months old but was literally the biggest dog I have ever seen, it was like a bear!</div>
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I had a shower because I felt all gross from the plane, and to also wake me up a bit because I was feeling a bit lethargic from the drive. Then the 3 of us went out for lunch. Their town was really nice, we went to a English style pub/restaraunt because all Gary wanted was some baked beans. Gary got a full English breakfast, complete with baked beans, and I got some fish and chips. The food was nice, apart from the fact that they didn't have real ketchup, it was like watery tomato sauce stuff, and it was gross. </div>
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Before we left, Fabian asked Gary to pick up a few of these energy bar things that they don't sell in NZ and bring them with him. This meant taking them all around America with us. Gary went out to get them before we left and I expected him to bring back maybe like 10 or 15 of them. He came home with this humungous box of 50 of them. I shouted at him for being so silly saying we did not want to lug them around the USA for 11 weeks, especially considering we had limited packing space. You can imagine how annoyed I was when we had been packing the day before, and we were wasting valuable clothes space with a huge box of bars. But Gary wanted to take them to his friend, and it meant so much to him that I couldn't argue. There was even one night on Trek where we had no food from Mark, and me and Kirsty wanted to eat one of these bars because we were so hungry and Gary wouldn't let us take even one! Anyway, funny story, when we got to New Zealand and Gary gave them to Fabian, they were the wrong ones LOL!!!</div>
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Anyway, we got all our food from the supermarket, and the boys rented a film from the rental store opposite, and then we went back home. The boys watched their film, Treena had some work to do and I just played with Gary's iPad for the rest of the night. We finally went to bed at about 11.30pm, I don't even know how we managed to stay up so late. I must have really got a good sleep on the plane. We had a good first day in New Zealand. I didn't really know what to expect from it, and I was still sad from having to leave America, but it seemed like we were going to have a good time here. </div>
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I woke up at 8.15am, feeling sad that we had to leave. I had wanted to lay in for as long as I possibly could, because we would not really be sleeping for another 2 days, but I was wide awake when I woke up. I played on Gary's iPad for a bit, I forgot to add on Saturday we went to an internet cafe to get it all set up, so it was now working. It was also Halloween so I watched a morning TV show with Rachel Ray and Cake Boss making some Halloween cupcakes until Gary woke up.<br />
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When Gary woke up, he went downstairs to put some laundry on, and while it was washing, we started packing. It was such a mess, we had way too much stuff and nowhere to put it, literally. There were just piles of clothing everywhere and we had no place to put it all. We had to throw some stuff away, and just about managed to get it all to fit, but it was so stressful. Just as we had got it all in the 3 suitcases, we realized we had forgotten about the laundry that we had downstairs! So Gary went to collect it, and we had to rethink our packing strategy again. Basically, we ended up with 3 cases packed as full as we could get them, and we each had 2 massive pieces of hand luggage, hoping that they would let us take it all on the plane.<br />
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We just stayed there for a few hours, because there was nothing else that we could really do. I read for a bit and listened to my ipod, but all I really was doing was thinking how sad I was to be leaving the USA. We had been here for just under 11 weeks, and they had been the best weeks of my life. It was just crazy to think all of the places we had seen, and the experiences we had experienced, how we had managed to fit it all in to 11 weeks. Those of you who know me well know how much I have always loved the USA, but now it really does feel like home to me, and I would happily go back there any second to live forever, and never come back to England. </div>
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At about 3pm, we got dried off and changed and then went for lunch at Mimi's (where else). It was our final meal in the USA and we ordered our usual favorites to enjoy for the last time. I was so sad that we had to leave America that all I really wanted to do was cry, but I did manage to enjoy my food. When we had finished eating we went to collect our luggage from the hotel reception and waited outside the hotel for the bus to come and pick us up to take us to the airport. </div>
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The bus to LAX took just over an hour, we were some of the only people on the bus and the driver was chatting to us a lot. He was really friendly, and it helped keep my mind off the fact that we were leaving. We arrived at the airport just after 6pm, and looking back now, I'm sad I didn't get a photo of the iconic LAX sign because I really wanted to. </div>
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We checked into our flight, luckily they were just fine with our very heavy suitcases and oversized hand luggage. Then we had a long wait ahead of us before we could even get on the plane, like over 4 hours. Considering the size of LAX airport, we were flying from this tiny little terminal that had hardly any shops or restaraunts, so we had nothing at all to do to pass the time, apart from sit there. We took it in turns, with one person sitting with all the hand luggage, and the other looking around the shops. After about 2 hours of this I knew about every single item that every shop was selling. We wanted to get some food but there was nowhere to get any. At about 10pm before the shops that they did have closed, we bought some snacks for the plane, but there was not much to choose from so we knew we were going to be hungry. I also got one of those rounded pillows that goes around your neck, and some sleeping tablets, hoping they would help us get some rest on the flight.</div>
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To pass the rest of the time before we could board the plane, I made loads of bracelets. I can't even put into words how devastated I felt to be leaving America. Spending this much time in the USA is all I have dreamed of for such a long time, and I really did not feel ready to leave. I honestly wasn't homesick one little bit. If somebody would have given me the option right there and then to stay and never leave, and to ever come home again, I would have taken it (still would). I was also feeling really sick and unwell, so that made me feel even worse, I think it was my body's way of telling me that leaving was the biggest mistake.</div>
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Then it was finally time to board the plane after the longest airport wait we had ever experienced. It all went smoothly and we took off on time. I genuinely felt so upset and distressed that we were leaving. I really feel like America is home to me, and leaving sucked so bad. Of course we were excited to go to New Zealand, but I really didn't care at that moment where we were going, because I did not want to go anywhere. We had a 13.5 hour flight from LA to Auckland, and it was the longest flight we had ever been on in our lives (so far) so I knew it was not going to be a fun one.</div>
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It was our last day in Disney today, and we were going to make the most of it. We were going to spend the day doing all of our favorite rides in both parks, and this afternoon we were meeting up with my friend Mari, who I met on a Disney Wedding planning website, we share the same birthday (same year and everything) so that makes me think we were destined to be friends. We also saw on the news that Qantas had gone on strike, who we were meant to be flying with to New Zealand tomorrow. I wasn't too worried about it because I was sure it would work out, and also I wouldn't be too bothered if we had to spend a few more days in the USA.<br />
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California Adventure opened at 10am and we were there at the gates waiting for it to open. First stop again was Toy Story Mania, where Gary was still dissapointed with his score. He would only have been happy if he got the very top score of the day, so no matter what, he was going to be unhappy.<br />
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This is the park bench that Walt Disney sat on, when he thought of the idea for Disneyland. He was watching his daughter's on a merry-go-round. Another super cool piece of Disney history.<br />
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Needless to say, Gary was over the moon, and didn't shoot any more targets for the rest of the ride because his score stopped going up. When we got off, he found out that if he's have kept shooting his score would have gone up to 1million and something, and he would have made it onto the top score board for the day, so he said we had to come back later so he could try again, not even happy with his 999,999!!<br />
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We then all went for dinner at the Rainforest Cafe. We had a little wait for a table so we just looked around in the shop while we waited. Of course we had to try on some silly hats!<br />
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Mari hadn't been to the Rainforest Cafe for ages, and was really impressed with the food. It was so nice to finally meet her, because we have chatted online for ages, and it was nice that we got along really great in real life. We had a lovely meal, and had loads of fun chatting to Mari comparing how life is different in London and Los Angeles. Mari has an annual pass to Disneyland so gets to visit quite a lot, which made us really jealous! We told her all about our trip and the places we had been, and also surprised her with the news that we were married!<br />
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When we left the Rainforest, it was time to say goodbye to Mari, I really appreciate that she made the effort to come and meet us, it was so nice of her, and great to finally meet her in real life. We thanked her for being kind enough to come and see us, and hopefully one day we will meet again.</div>
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The fireworks were lovely, they were called 'Remember, dreams do come true' which was definitely something I was feeling, with all the dreams that had come true in my life recently on the trip, and having just got married. Of course it was the last night we had in Disneyland so I felt all emotional about it. The show was kind of similar to Wishes with some of the same music, and they were narrated by Julie Andrews, which was cool, I love her.</div>
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This show always makes me feel emotional, and when it was finished, it meant it was time to leave Disneyland for the last time, and I had a little cry because I didn't want it to be over. We had such an amazing time in Disneyland, and I was so glad that I had finally got to visit. It was also our last night in the USA as we were flying to New Zealand tomorrow night, so it felt like it was the perfect way to end nearly 11 weeks in America. I did not want to leave at all, but we had to, and on the way out I took one last night photo of Main Street...</div>
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It was quite late when we got back to the hotel, nearly midnight I think. We turned on the TV and saw that the Qantas strike was over, so that was another concern off our minds. All we did was shower and fall straight asleep because we knew we wouldn't have a very good sleep tomorrow night as we would be on the plane.</div>
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<br />Laurenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11843796200299426445noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6088877163395417144.post-53050434471515685102012-04-27T18:20:00.000+01:002012-04-27T18:20:28.834+01:00Day 73, 29th October 2011. Disneyland/AnaheimIt was a 6am wake up time this morning, as there were extra magic hours in Disneyland, starting at 7am. Alarm went off at 6am, I turned it off, and the next thing I knew, it was 6.20am. I had to rush Gary up and we were out of the door within 15 minutes. It was a chilly morning so we were quite wrapped up.<br />
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We made it to the park gates for opening time at 7am, and luckily, even though it was a Saturday, it was really quiet.<br />
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Then we got to go on the Alice in Wonderland ride (yay, it didn't break down this time) and I loved it, it was so cute. They should have it in the other Disney parks too.<br />
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We went on the Matterhorn one more time, and then we went to Tommorowland. We went on the new Star Tours, which was great, and I got picked out as the spy. Because we hadn't been on the new version before I was not expecting it at all and I was so embarrassed. The cast member also noticed our 'Just Married' buttons and made the whole ride clap for us!<br />
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It was actually 'Haunted Mansion Holiday', as it had been completely decorated for Halloween in a Nightmare Before Christmas theme. It was so cool. The whole ride had been re-done and they even changed the music too. Not that I don't love the regular Haunted Mansion, but this made it even better. Gary loved it too.</div>
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Once we had done all of those rides, we decided to leave the park and spend the afternoon doing some shopping, as I had not spent enough money yet. We first went to Downtown Disney and I got a few things, and then we went back to the hotel to change out of our wet Splash Mountain clothes, before getting the bus to the Block at Orange to do some shopping.<br />
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Getting the bus was quite confusing, and actually took about an hour, but I was really itching to do some shopping. We first went shoe shopping, I got new converse and Gary got new Vans, and also some Vans t-shirts. I then had to have a last Victoria's Secret spree. And a spree it was, I got loads, but I wanted to make the most of it. I got so many body lotions and sprays thinking that I wouldn't be able to get any more until next time we come to the USA (and now that I'm home, they are opening the first UK store in Stratford very soon, thats only 20 minutes from home, I am so excited). After I had spent an insane amount in Victorias Secret, we went to Hollister where they had some super sale on.<br />
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There was like nobody in the store but they had loads of money off everything. I got 2 pairs of shorts, and Gary got 3 pairs of shorts and 2 pairs of joggers and it all came to only $60!! The final stop of the day was Forever 21, but it was a rubbish one that had like nothing good in there so I didn't get anything. We then had the hour bus journey back to the hotel, and when we got there we laid around the pool for about an hour.<br />
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We then went to sort the room out a bit as it was quite messy with all our new purchases. We tidied up and sorted all our new things out, before showering and getting ready to go out for dinner. We had already pre-paid for one day bus tickets so decided to use them again to go to TGI Fridays for dinner.<br />
It was so weird, the TGI's that we went to had the exact same layout, (literally the exact same) as the one we go to at home. We had found out while we were away that our local TGI's had shut down and moved to a new location down the road. We were sad that we hadn't got a chance to say goodbye to the old one (we are weird like that), so it was cool that this one was exactly the same as our old one.<br />
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The food was ok, it was nice, but we have had lots of better TGI's than that one. Still, it was a really nice meal, and our first (of many) TGI's as a married couple. When we had finished, we still had half an hour before the bus came that took us back to the hotel, so I had another look in the Forever 21 that I couldn't find anything in earlier, and came out with some necklaces and some plain cami's.</div>
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We soon got back to the hotel, the journey was a lot quicker this time, and we were the only people on the bus, which was awkward, but the driver was nice. When we got back I had a bath and we just relaxed for the rest of the night, so we could conserve our energy for our last Disney day tomorrow and make the most of it.</div>
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<span id="goog_749618999"></span><span id="goog_749619000"></span>Laurenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11843796200299426445noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6088877163395417144.post-85552797654856161942012-04-27T14:28:00.001+01:002012-04-27T14:28:50.696+01:00Day 72, 28th October 2011. Disney's California Adventure.<br />
We had kind of a lay in this morning, because California Adventure doesn't open until 10am, so we got up at 8.30am. Had breakfast in the room again and got there for opening. I think the gates opened at 9.30am, so we went straight to get fastpasses for tonights World of Color show. I was a bit of a stresser about getting a good view point from the show, I'd researched it like a crazy person on the internet before we left, and even printed off loads of pages of tips on how to get the best spot... then I left it at home in England HAHA. So we just got our fastpasses and hoped for the best.<br />
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First ride was Ariel's Undersea Adventures again, it wasn't even 10am yet, but it was open, so it would have been rude of us not to ride it.<br />
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Then we waited behind the rope for Paradise Pier to open with all the other marathon runners waiting for Toy Story Mania. Gary gets extremely competitive in these situations and does not feel happy unless he is the very first person on the ride. Of course I am not the fastest marathon runner so we never are first. Although, once we were first ones on ToT in Paris, it was a proud moment. Anyway, we were ready for our race to Toy Story Mania. I kept wanting to go off and take photos and Gary kept telling me off for not taking the race seriously. Aaaah if there's anyone reading this who doesn't understand Disney, then you will be thinking what the hell am I talking about.</div>
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The ropes were dropped and we were off! We were nowhere near winning the race, but we only had to line up for like 5 minutes so it was a victory in my eyes. Toy Story Mania is mine and Gary's all time favorite Disney ride. (ok that might be a lie, we have a lot of all time favorite rides, but this is definitely one of them). I could literally ride it all day and never get bored.</div>
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The ride was amazing as usual, although Gary was disappointed that he didn't get a score high enough to be on the leader board. Next we went on the big Mickey Mouse ferris wheel.</div>
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I was totally not expecting what this wheel did. We of course picked the moving cages, and they were insane, I can see why some people would not like them, they were swinging and rolling all over the place. We found it really fun though, trying to make it swing even harder.</div>
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We went on the Monsters Inc ride, which again was something I was super excited about because they don't have it at any of the other parks. Monsters Inc is one of my favorite Disney films so I thought it was really cool. There is a bit where you are riding through the door room with all the doors swinging around you, that was my favorite part, it was done so well I really did feel like we were in the film.</div>
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Next was Muppet Vision 3D, exactly the same as the Florida version, but always a good show</div>
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We then wandered around the park for a little, looking in shops and we got some grapes and sat and ate them. After that we went into the Art of Animation building and saw some cool stuff, like the Toy Story zoetrope, which was so good.<br />
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Then we went to see the Aladdin musical, which was really good. Even Gary enjoyed it, and he's not usually into that kind of thing.<br />
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By the time the show was over, it was mid afternoon and we left the park because I needed togo and buy some new denim shorts, because all of mine were too big now. We went in Quicksilver in Downtown Disney, but they didn't have any that I liked in my size. So I decided we had to go to the Anaheim Gardenwalk because I really really needed some shorts. We went into Hollister and they didn't even have any shorts in there. Luckily I did manage to get some shorts in another store in the Gardenwalk and they were on sale for $15 too!</div>
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With our warmer clothes on, we made our way back to California Adventure. I was beyond excited to see World of Color. Last year when we were considering wether we should visit Disneyland as part of this trip or not because we had no money, I saw a clip of World of Color on youtube and then there was no way that we could miss it. It was my biggest must-see while we were in Disneyland, I had come here to see it even though we couldn't afford it, so tonight was a big night for me.</div>
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When we arrived at the park, we went straight to Paradise Pier because we knew it would be busy already (it was). We waited in line for about 20 minutes before they finally let us into the viewing area. I can't remember what section we were in, but I think it was blue. Also, we happened to be standing in the right place at the right time and we got front row spaces!!! So all my stressing about how to get in the right place at the right time was so un-needed, we were just lucky and got a great space :)</div>
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Finally it was time for the show to start and it was A-MA-ZING. There is not really much I can say about it really, it was just a perfect Disney show, the best I've ever seen, and they should bring it to Orlando! My photos don't really do it justice, but if you haven't seen it, youtube it, you will not be disappointed.</div>
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It was kind of like Fantasmic, mixed with the Epcot wayer fountains, but on a bigger scale. The music that went along with it was perfect. Disney really know how to set things to music in the most magical way. There are no words for how good this show is, you just have to see it. I also love how the whole 'Wonderful World of Color' theme goes back to an old Disney show that was on years ago, because I love anything to do with Disney history.</div>
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Got there and the line was 45 minutes long, I was so upset!! but then a kind stranger gave us fastpasses that they were not going to use that started in 5 minutes time! I love how lovely people can be to each other in Disney. So we got to have our night time Tower of Terror ride :)</div>
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When we got off the ride it was definitely time for bed, went back to the room and went straight to sleep. It had been the best night ever, one of those perfect Disney nights that makes you realize why you just love going there so much.</div>
<br />Laurenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11843796200299426445noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6088877163395417144.post-31537840984151143352012-04-27T12:21:00.001+01:002012-04-27T12:21:48.906+01:00Day 71, 27th October 2011. Disneyland & Disney's California Adventure, Anaheim.We were up at 7.45am this morning to get ready for our engagement photoshoot. Normally I am always for staying in bed until the last minute that you have to get up, but this morning I had to make sure we looked extra beautiful because we were going to be captured on camera. I had finally decided on wearing jeans, and a cute white top that I had bought from American Eagle a few weeks ago. Those of you that know me well, will know the fuss I made about the dress I bought especially for the photos. Well I'd worn that for the wedding, and felt like going for a more casual look. Also, it was way too big because I'd lost so much weight on the trip, at the wedding Kirsty had to pin and clip me in to it, and there was no way Gary was going to be able to do that, plus I wanted to be comfortable and I would have kept having to re-adjust it.<br />
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This brings me to my next point, lets address the elephant in the room (the elephant on the blog?!?).... yes we were having engagement photos done and we were already married. We decided ahead of time not to say anything to the photographer, but decided to keep our rings on because they wouldn't be that noticeable.<br />
Also, unless I know you from some sort of Disney Bride/Wedding reason, you are probably thinking, 'what the hell are they having photos taken for?'. Well lots of Disney brides do this kind of thing, and it seems to be the norm in the USA to have engagement photos taken. So thats why.<br />
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So we were all ready to leave by 8.45am, and I was still questioning my outfit choice as we were leaving, I wasn't 100% happy with it but I wasn't really 100% happy with any of my options. Looking back on it now, I definitely made the right decision and I'm glad I wore what I did. We were at the park just after opening.<br />
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As soon as we arrived in the park, we went to put all our stuff in a locker so that we weren't lugging it around when we were having the photos taken. Once we had done that we waited right at the front of the park for our photographer, Reuben. Reuben worked for Beverly Hilly Photography, who we had booked the shoot with. I had looked at a lot of photographers beforehand, but we ended up going with them because of 2 reasons. One was that they had a really great price, and the second was that they were preferred by Disneyland to shoot weddings. This was better for us because it meant that we didn't have to pay for their park admission and they also knew the parks really well.</div>
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Reuben started taking photos of us straight away, and over the next 2 hours took 569 photos. So of course I haven't shared them all here haha. Gary was not comfortable having his photo taken at all and kept telling me in between takes that he hated me LOL. We started with photos on Main Street.</div>
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We got quite a lot of attention from other guests, and cast members, who must have been used to this kind of thing and kept saying to us 'Congratulations on your engagement' which was so awkward. A few days ago we had been walking around with our 'Just Married' badges getting wedding congratulations from people!<br />
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This next photo is what Gary calls his 'signature photo'. Gary hated having these photos taken, and hates photos of him in general. The second he saw this photo he changed his mind because he looks so good in it. I've never know him to be happy with a photo in his entire life, but he loves this one. It's a shame I look like such a weirdo in it with my eyes half shut and my hair all weird.</div>
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It was so exciting going into a park that I had never been to before and had no idea what it was like. Of course I knew what was there from all my internet research, but you never really know what it's going to be like until you are there. First stop was Soarin'. Well in DCA they call it Soarin' over California, even though it's the exact same ride Soarin' in Epcot.</div>
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I've always loved Soarin', but it was even more cool than usual this time because we had been to so many places that we were soaring over. The Golden Gate Bridge bit and the Yosemite bit made me feel all emotional because they were some of my favorite places that we had visited on the trip and it felt so good to be able to go on the ride and say we had been to those places in real life. I got so excited and kept saying to Gary 'OMGGGGG we've been there' constantly. Nobody is ever going to want to ride Soarin' with me ever again because I will always say it.</div>
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It did not disappoint, it was really good. Totally a Disney magic ride. We then went on all the other Paradise Pier rides. There is a spinning rocket thing that I don't know the name of, the Silly Symphony swings, and California Screamin,. We didn't go on Toy Story Mania because we were going to go on that at opening time tomorrow. We loved California Screamin' a lot, it was a really good roller coaster, it even impressed Gary, which is hard to do.</div>
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It was so nice to finally not have to do anything today. Even so, I woke up quite early, at 8am, but it was nice to just lay around in bed watching TV and stuff for a while. Gary woke up with the big idea that he wanted to get an iPad, so we looked up where the closest Walmart was.<br />
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Ihop was just down the road from our hotel, and by the time we got back, the laundry was dry. We got a taxi to take us to the closest Walmart, which was not very far away at all. When the taxi driver dropped us off, he gave us his number so we could ring him when we wanted to be picked up. </div>
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Gary got his iPad, you can tell by now that we were not concerned by how much money we were spending, we just decided to make the most of everything and not worry about the cost. I also got some bits and pieces while we were in there. It was our last ever trip to Walmart, so I felt sad and felt the need to get loads of stuff. I got loads of bracelet making stuff, loads of CoverGirl make up, and we also got a load of food that we could have for breakfast and lunch for the rest of the week to save money so we wouldn't be buying so much food in the parks.</div>
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I'm such a loser that I really did feel sad knowing it was the last of so many trips to Walmart that we had enjoyed over the past 10 weeks.The taxi driver came to pick us up and we went back to the hotel. When we got there Gary was disappointed when he realized that he would have to connect his iPad to a computer before he could use it, but there was no time to be worrying about that now because Downtown Disney was calling my name.<br />
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The World of Disney store was the first stop. I actually didn't buy that much because I wanted to leave all my big purchases until later in the week. It was still nice to look around and see what there was in there, and I think I bought a few small things. Of course I couldn't set foot in there and buy nothing!</div>
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It was a really nice hotel, of course it would be my dream to stay there, but we would never ever be able to afford it. There was some construction work going on which was a little annoying, but I got to see what the hotel was like so I was happy. They had free cookies and lemonade in the lobby, they were so good. It was literally the best lemonade I have ever tasted. I was then on the search for the Rose Court Garden, because it looks so pretty in photos that I have seen. It is a wedding location and of course my interest in Disney Weddings meant I had to see it. </div>
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For dinner, we went to ESPN Zone. Basically the food was awful, which was a shame. It seems like others have had a good experience there, so I think we were just unlucky. Gary enjoyed the theming and all the sports screens.</div>
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When we got back to the room it was only 5pm, but we were so exhausted that we just didn't want to do anything all evening. Gary was upset that he couldn't play on his iPad, and I just spent the time painting my nails. We ordered some take out food from Mimi's to eat in the room, and I spent ages fussing about what I was going to wear for our engagement photos tomorrow. </div>
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