Sunday, July 28, 2013

I'm Back!!

A few days ago I returned home from the most amazing trip to the United States. I travelled with my boyfriend for a month and it was so so much fun! I enjoyed most places and bought a heap of makeup, clothes and souvenirs (there will be some posts on my hauls this week!).

So, where did we go?

- Orlando, Florida
First stop was the east coast, and a massive eight days of theme parks!! I love Disney, Harry Potter and rollercoasters, so Orlando was an obvious choice for me! We stayed at a Disney hotel, which made everything so easy as they have buses to take you to every Disney theme park (there's six of them!). Being a Harry Potter fanatic I loved Universal Islands of Adventure as I got myself a wand and drank butterbeer (yes I'm crazy!).

 

- Washington DC
We were lucky enough to be in Washington on the 4th of July so we got to see a parade and a fantastic firework display over the Washington Monument. I really enjoyed the short two days we spent there as there was so many great historical things to see.
 


- Baltimore and Philadelphia
We drove from Washington to New York and along the way we dropped into Baltimore and stayed in Philadelphia for one night. I love Ace of Cakes the tv show, so we stopped into Charm City Cakes in Baltimore which was amazing! I thought Philadelphia was a gorgeous city, even though we were only there briefly. We had Philly cheesesteak too and I could definitely get used to eating them often!

 
 
- New York
An amazing 10 days was spent in New York and I fell in love for sure. We did all the touristy things including seeing a Broadway show, Staten Island ferry, Empire State Building, Rockefeller Plaza and Times Square. We walked the Brooklyn bridge and had a delicious pizza at Grimaldi's and got the ferry to Hoboken and got sweets at Carlo's Bakery (from Cake Boss). My grandfather was born in New York, so we went to see where he lived and where his parents were married. I enjoyed every single minute in New York, whether it was riding bikes around Central Park or trying the many burger joints.

 
 

- Las Vegas, Nevada
Of course if we were going to head all the way to America we had to check out Vegas. We stayed at the Bellagio and it was so beautiful! It is in the perfect position on the strip -next to Caesar's Palace and across the road from the Paris hotel. We saw David Copperfield and Cirque du Soleil's "O". If you ever have the chance to go to Vegas you have to see "O". It is the third Cirque du Soleil show I have seen and it blew me away. Of course in Vegas we drank, gambled a little and did plenty of shopping!


- Los Angeles, California
Los Angeles was the only place I probably wouldn't go to again, which is a shame because it's the closest! While I enjoyed Disneyland and Santa Monica the rest we saw was very dirty and quite sad as there are so many homeless people there. Every corner there would be people asking for money. Thankfully I knew a bit of this beforehand so we were only there for four nights. We did get to drive around in a Chevrolet Camaro (pretty cool), but I don't think I would recommend LA to people unless it was somewhere they just had to go.




All in all it was an amazing trip and I can't believe I'm back home already! My boyfriend didn't get sick of me - always a bonus!- and I think he had a fantastic time too.

10 comments:

  1. Looks like you had a great trip!! I can't wait for my US trip but it's still months away in mid October. Can't wait to see your hauls!

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    1. Oh you are going to have such an amazing time!! Save every dollar you can as the shopping there is unbelievable!

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  2. Love these pictures! It sounds like you had an amazing time. Can't wait to see what you picked up :D

    Sarah
    morethanadored.blogspot.com

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    1. Thanks Sarah! I feel like I didn't go overboard but the look on my boyfriends face when he saw it all together said otherwise!

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  3. Sounds like an amazing trip, loved looking at the photos! Glad you had a lovely time and are back home safe and sound. :)

    xx

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    1. Thankyou, yes it was such a great trip! Aways good to be home though :)

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  4. I thoroughly enjoyed LA... except West Hollywood. That place is definitely overrated. If you thought LA was bad, the other cities in the states must be amazing! I can't wait to go back for a visit someday soon!

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    1. It could have also been that it was the end of the trip but I'm glad that there must be some good places (maybe we missed some of it). I wish it wasn't so far away!

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  5. What beautiful photos, you had such an amazing adventure! I think I will be following in your footsteps if I ever get to go to the USA, it sounds like you planned the perfect trip!

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    1. Thankyou Kristine!! I'm really happy with how it turned out, took a little bit of planning but thankfully we know a good travel agent that helped sort some of it out!

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