What Happens In Vegas, Stays In Vegas....

I think all of us had huge expectations to this place and as our car finally rolled in on the Strip we all screamed of joy and excitement! We had all waited so long for this and was looking farward to have a SUPER time, and it all started of absolutely great as we checked in at the fantastic MGM Grand hotel, right at the beginning of the strip! When we came it was like a shopping-center with shops and restaurants, and then we got to the main lobby which was amaaaaazing!! The hotel has a theme with lions and they had to actual lions in a huge cage made of glass for all visitors too see. Youll see pics when i upload on facebook!

So the first thing we did was to put our things in our rooms and then we went straight down to the pool where we bought a bucket with beer and just enjoyed ourselves. In the evening we ate fabolous Sushi at one of the restaurants at the hotell. Lars hadnt tried before and i had bad experience with it but everyone liked the dinner and we wanted to eat it again the day after. We wanted to check out the Bellagio fountains but we didnt make it of course as the last show ran at 12 AM.












The next day we all hung out at the pool again, it was so beautiful down there, and how chill isnt it to just hang out by a pool having drinks and beer all day??








In the evening we had rented a Limo which was sooooo cool and we drove around for about two hours. We all felt a little rich and famous as our driver, yes Our Driver, drove us around so we could see some famous things in Vegas such as the welcome sign, the kinda fall-looking fountain at Aria and we went to the old town, like the original Vegas, where the worlds biggest screen covered a whole roof. It was so awesome!Of course we had to check out Caesars Palace and that place was amazing! Everything was in of course Roman style and we hit a nightclub there.

Im not gonna say much about stripclubs here in this city, other than that theres many of them.........:p

The biggest event of the trip was of course when we finally caught the shows of the Bellagio Fountains. It was sooo amazing and i cant believe how much work has been done to make the whole thing work. It runs different shows with different songs and choreographies, i dont remember how many, but here is one show, one of the most spectacular ones we got to see:

So we left Vegas a little shorter on money but we had the most amazing time so far and im definitely going back there sometime! Soo much to do! I found out that you dont have to be 21 to have fun here too, lucky me!

Off to The Grand Canyon!!

- vic -

Roadtrip kick-off in Hollywoooood

So we are finally on the road but first the boys had to say goodbye to Ron and Ginger. I think they all we're sad because the landlords were really nice and South-Mission was a beautiful place to stay for half a year to study. Cant say no an apartment at the beach by 30 meters!

Here are the boys and the landlords.
We started the day with breakfast at The Mission, a great place in North Mission and me and LM bought pancakes!! I mean, of course we had to try the tradisional american breakfast! A good breakfast, but it was way too much to eat.....! Anyway, we've now officially started the Pancake Tour of America!
We went on speed-sightseeing and saw Coronado Island, La Jolla and the seals there and then we went to Mount Solidad and checked out the view over all of San Diego before we started the
trip to LA. This was to show Runa and LM San Diego, as much as we could because that was the only day they could see the city.

In LA we stayed on a hostel called Banana Bungalow for two nights, which was nice enough. All seven of us had a dorm for ourselves so we had two bedrooms, a kitchen and a bathroom that only we shared.
The first night we celebrated the first day of the roadtrip with a glass of wine or beer at a very nice restaurant. The next day we went to that nice spot that me and Lars found the last time we were here to see the Hollywood sign. We fooled around a lot and took some funny pics. LA isnt complete without seeing the sign!!
After that we went to the Hills (Beverly Hills) only to see if we could catch a glimpse of some celebrities. We ate lunch at a expencive restaurant called the Ivy where suppousibly all celebs and rich peps go hang out. Unfortunately we didnt see much famous people but Lars and Runa are sure they could recognize a lady and i think all of us thought we recognized her in the end, (probably cause we just REALLY wanted to see a celeb) but we never found out what her name was haha.

Then we saw the Chinese Theatre like any other tourist and on this day it was the grand premiere of Toy Story 3 so the Hollywood boulevard was closed off for the red carpet. Unfortunetly we were in the Hills at the time when all the celebs came to the premiere BUT after seeing the Chinese Theatre we went at the back of the premiere-local and YES; we finallly cought glimpsES of celebrities! We didnt see many but we saw Nikki Blonsky (Tracy Turnblad from Hairspray), we saw the girl from the Jonas Brothers TV-show, Chelsea Staub, AND we saw the main star of the whole movie: TIM ALLEN!!!!! haha, yeeeey!



















We all had a great time here but we found out that Los Angeles is a little too much if you are planning on sticking around for a longer time. All the glam and celeb-hunting can tire you out haha....

- vic -