Question: Why is America broke and a vast proprtion of its population overweight (Claude & Zack excluded)?
Answer: Because walking is not a word in the American vocabulary...or so we have found to date! In fact it has been replaces quite convieniently with 'Taxi'!

Anyway, since our last blog update in LA we were joined by Chris's parents for a fantastic 10 days travelling down the west coast to San Diego, which was a beautiful city. We then drove up to Vegas for a good fews days gambling (no major losses, but no major wins either boo!). We did a road trip to teh Hoover Dam which was interesting and brought back GCSE Geography...not a pleasant thought! Whilst in Vegas we all decided to go and see a vegas show so with the hundreds on offer, we eventually settled on Cirque Du Soleil - Mystere. Now these shows are very expensive, however we were offered 4 show tickets for a bargainess price if we attended a timeshare presentation that would "only last 2 hours"....we agreed and after 4 hours we eventually left the timeshare presentation (without being pressured into purchase unlike so many...). We had managed to point out some pretty huge flaws with their apparently incredible offers and had managed to negotiate the price from $39,000 to $5,800 - Amazing! Anyway after this painful experience we happily got our tickets to teh show and had a great evening at…

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