vegas baby!!!

hello everyone,

was having a little trouble setting up a wireless connection in our condo in vegas, so i could not post in a few days. i am currently sitting poolside with a beer updating the blog. gotta love wireless.

anyway, vegas is wicked!! we are enjoying vegas more than we did la, way too much driving in la, we spent 60% of our 5 days in la driving in traffic. it takes about an hour to drive 20 miles, brutal, i was getting really frustated the last couple days there. now we are in vegas, much more relaxed. we are staying in a beautiful condo about three blocks from the strip. this condo has everything, a huge pool area with hot tub, a gym thats a mini goodlife, squash court, indoor basketball court, 3 plazma tv's...heaven!! the weather is great +30 all week, and you can drink beer everywhere, even while i watch chantale shop i can enjoy a nice cold beer, they should have this law everywhere, its much more enjoyable when you can drink beer while you watch your wife shop all day. its funny watching people walk up and down the strip with an open six pack in there hands.

tonight we are taking in a comedic hypnotist, supposedly the best in vegas, we have vip seats so hopefully i can volunteer to become hynotised. tomorrow night we are heading to a comedy club to check out some standup. the shows are very expensive, celin dion +$200, not for me, cirque de soleil, +$200 for really bad seats.

here are a few shots that i took last night and today, let me know what you think. i really like the effel tower and the bellageo water show.

i hope everyone is doing well, i'll be back home soon, i miss my alot :( hopefully all the snow is gone by the time we get there, i'm totally in summer mode.

cheers,
d

California - Day 3 & 4

Hello,

The last couple days we have been hanging out in Beverly Hills and Venice Beach. I could not afford to buy anything on Rodeo Drive, some places you need an appointment to even shop, they don't have price tags, because if you ask you cannot afford it. Anyway it was cool car watching, I must have seen 10 Ferrari's, 15 Bentley's, Range Rovers are most popular, you see five at about every light you stop at. Today was a relaxing one, we just hung out on the beach and walked the Venice Boardwalk, some very interesting characters along the boardwalk. Tomorrow we are going to Burbank to check out the studios and Wednesday we head to VEGAS BABY!!! Here are some photos of the last couple days..

Underneath the Venice Pier


Real life rescue


Lifeguards get to drive cool trucks


Mom & Dad at Venice Beach



Chantale at Venice Beach




My momma



Chantale and I


Chantale at the Lifeguard station



A rare pic of me, I let Chantale hold my camera.


I'm getting a pair of these tomorrow!!


David Hasselhoff paparazzi shot, my Dad thinks he is Hasselhoff



Rodeo Drive/Via Rodeo Street Signs







Versage, not my style..




Watching the sunset

California - Day 2

Hello everyone,

yesturday was spent in Hollywood. We did the Hollywood behind-the-scenes tour, which was kinda of boring. Our tour guide talked about old movies that I had no clue about. We then when took in the Homes of the Stars tour which was kinda cool, we drove past many famous peoples homes, like Bruce Willis, Demi Moore and Ashton Kucher (live across the street), Britney Spears, Justin Timberlake, Gene Hackman (has 8 Ferrari's parked in his front driveway), Sylvester Stallone, Dr. Phil, Steve Martin, Will Ferrel and Bob Parker, I actually got a paparazzi of Bob, see below. Again, it was hard to shoot pictures while on the tour, I have just a few posted. Heading out to Rodeo Drive today and I'm going to buy myself a $100 pair of boxer shorts, thats the only thing I can afford to buy. I'll try and take lots of pictures today.

Hope everyone is enjoying the spring weather, +30 here today.

Cheers,
Derrick

Chantale and I at the a lookout over LA, too much smog to see the city.


Mom & Dad


Rambo & Chantale


The famous Hollywood sign, used to say Hollywoodland.


The Beverly Hotel


Bob Barker Paparazzi Shot

California - Day 1

Hello everyone,

we made it to LA.. Beautiful day, +20 celcius. I didn't take many photos, too busy trying to find our way around. We did get out to Santa Monica Pier and Third Street for some shopping. We are staying at Gary Fong's beautiful condo in Marina Del Rey, its has an awesome view of the ocean and the Hollywood hills. We are going to Hollywood tomorrow so be sure to check back for more photos.

Cheers,
Derrick

Santa Monica Pier


The Best Mother in the World


Santa Monica Beach Lifeguard Station


Palm Tree

California Bound!!

Vacation is finally here. We are currently in Syracuse awaiting our 6:00 AM flight to LA. We had to drive across the US border because we didn't receive our passports in time, you have to have a passport to fly from Canada into the US. Driving without a valid passport is possible until 2009.

Keep checking my blog each day as I'll be posting pictures from our trip.

Cheers,
Derrick