17-12-08 (Wednesday)
Magic Kingdom
Today we did the Magic Kingdom. You know, the place with the giant Disney castle, the place where all your dreams come true. Well…mine didn’t. I still don’t have my Prince Charming and I still can’t sing like a Disney Princess. But I did meet a couple of characters. Guess what guys!! I met Prince Caspian. Yeah, take that. And he kissed me and told me I was beautiful. Then I got a photo. And he did it all over again with Tamika. And I thought I was special. Loser. We also met Aladdin and Genie. Yes, that’s right girls, the one and only ALADDIN!! He was cute. Do you know what’s awesome? Having an accent. It makes you totally cool. Tamika and I are the oldest people in the line wanting photos with characters. We stand in line and everyone else in like 5. We feel kind of odd standing there. Our excuse is that we never met them when we were little so we’re making up for it now. We watched Aladdin while in the line and he would sign for Genie and then Genie would point to the paper and ‘sign’ so the kids thought he used magic. It was cute. We hit the rides and they were all pretty cool. We watched a couple of shows and chilled. It was a long day. We got to see fireworks behind the castle. Like at the beginning of all Disney movies and they have Tinkerbell who starts the fireworks…well it all happened just like that. It was pretty amazing. We then headed back to our hotel that has a bed just for me. Tomorrow we hit Animal Kingdom.
18-12-08 (Thursday)
Animal Kingdom
Animal Kingdom is pretty cool. There’s animals everywhere and rides and all that jazz. Dad absolutely loved it. Lions and tigers and bears…oh my. Actually there weren’t any tigers or bears. But there were monkeys and birds and dinosaurs. Yeah, real live dinosaurs that we brought back from the past. We even saw the dinosaur on all the surveillance cameras. We experienced what its like to be an honorary bug. It was kinda scary. The 3D movies were great at Disney. Waaay better that anything we’ve ever seen before. We checked out more of the animals, saw an awesome Lion King show and an amazing Finding Nemo puppet show. It was all really cool. We totally let Stitch escape but I did all I could. It wasn’t my fault I was strapped to a chair. One thing I will say, when Disney do a ride or a show they totally go all out. We have decided that it is the attention to detail that totally makes all the Disney theme parks so good.
19-12-08 (Friday)
Busch Gardens
What can I say about Busch Gardens? There were no lines, heaps of awesome rollercoasters and animals. It was sooo much fun. Tamika and I did all the rides at least once. Cause there were no lines we often did then a couple of times. We did the water ones first and we survived the first 2 with a token amount of dryness left but the third one we did, the river rapids, it totally soaked us. We had no dry clothes, our hair was saturated and it took us the rest of the day to dry off. It also didn’t help that when we were not in the sun we froze. We saw a couple of shows and they were all of the highest quality which probably has a lot to do with the fact that the people on the shows had probably done it over and over and over again. But they were good. Mum and Dad walked around in a daze most of the day. We got Dad to do the SheiKra. There’s a massive drop and Dad was kind of petrified. But he enjoyed the ride. Tamika and I defied the 5 (as they say) and did the 5 wildest rides there a couple of times over. It was a great day for all.
We, once again, experienced the joy of being Australians. People come over and chat to you. Then they kind of expect you to continue talking and all you want to do is get on rides. It does get kind of annoying.
Dad won’t stop talking about this chick from brekky. Apparently she ate heaps and Dad counted it all. We hear about her over and over again. I guess we’ll see her tomorrow at brekky.
One thing that we have noticed is Dad’s complete disorientation in America. He gets lost so easily. And he doesn’t know which way to go. It’s actually quite funny to watch him. He gets to experience what it’s like to be a female. He’s hating it. Know he kind of knows what it’s like for every female to drive somewhere they’ve never been before. A learning experience for him.
20-12-08 (Saturday)
We did the Busch Gardens again today. Tamika and I had done all the rides so we were pretty ok with just chilling and seeing the animals. One thing we realized is that Mum and Dad did nothing yesterday. They must of just wandered around in a complete gaze for the entire day. We kept going on walks and Dad would be like “this wasn’t here yesterday”. They seriously did nothing all day. The animals were cool. They had meerkats, lions, hyenas, the black swan, pelicans, ugly seagulls, lemurs (the heeby jeeby monkey from Madagascar), elephants, skunks, humans (lots of humans), and fat people. There were lots of birds, school kids (everyone is on holidays), giraffes, zebras, chimpanzees, gorillas (we have come to the conclusion that I have inherited my small thumb from our chimpanzee ancestors). Let’s just say that we saw heaps of animals. That’s about all we did today.
I was craving veggies today (I know, shock horror!) so we hit a cheap buffet and ate heaps of veggies and salad. Dad ate a fair bit of meat. This living off Taco Bell and free brekky thing is really taking its toll on us. Maybe it explains our constant state of tiredness. Maybe tomorrow we’ll have all this energy. Like I do now. I’m not an expert on jet lag but I totally thought it would have been finished by now. Don’t sleep well at night but always tired during the day. It sucks.
Well…I have an early morning tomorrow – 5am so I’m gonna hit the sack. This brings you all fully and completely up to date with all the happenings of the Sutton Family (who, unfortunately, do not have a family holiday t-shirt, which, if we did, I would NEVER wear in public like so many Americans seem to be able to do)
21-12-08 (Sunday)
Today we went swimming with manatees. They are these really ugly, really gentle sea cows. They are so super protected that you can’t swim up to them, can’t swim over them, can’t swim down to them. You basically have to get them to swim up to you while you remain stationary. The water was cold so the whole not moving thing totally made it colder. They were pretty cool though. And very slimy. I had a couple swim up to me and we could touch them. They move for like 5 metres then they fall asleep. They are like the sloth of the ocean. They sleep all night and then have to sleep about 10 hours during the day which leaves approximately 4-5 hours of activity. I wish I was a manatee. Manatees have also starred in a very famous Veggietales song. Larry sings it – Barabara Manatee…you are the one for me. He dances with a toy manatee. Now I know what they are and it makes me happy. After we had taken enough punishment in the water and were beyond freezing with blue lips and giant shivers we left and got a little warmer. We headed back to the hotel and had warm showers which was nice. We then went to Denny’s for breakfast/lunch/dinner. Tamika and Mum shared a meal and Dad had his own. I got them to order a soup and salad side which I ate. I’ve been craving veggies and I would love to just eat a couple of bowls of vegetable soup (I’m craving it so much I actually wrote vegetables and not veggies!). We then raced to the next touristy thing which was a ride on a hovercraft boat thing. It was pretty awesome. The wind in your hair, the freezing temperatures coupled with the wind chill. They showed us coral and everyone on the boat got really excited but it was kind of ugly. And they showed us these pelicans which also got everyone excited but they were just like the pelicans back home. But it was a pretty cool ride. When we got back it was back to Orlando for us. A nice 2 hr drive. It was nice.
22-12-08 (Monday)
Today we slept in. And by slept in I mean till about 9am. Then we had brekky and chilled till we had to checkout then we went and re-did the Magic Kingdom. The crowds were totally crazy. 80 minute waits for a 2 minute ride. Retarded. Tamika and I did the fastpass thing so we did 2 rides and hardly waited at all. It’s a fantastic system. We then headed to the airport and we totally hoped that our plane wasn’t delayed. After over 48 hrs of constant snow in Boston and cancelled planes everywhere we were kinda worried. Luckily there had been no snow for the last 12 hrs so our plane took off and landed without much fuss. It was really cool landing in the snow. A cool experience. The landing was fun and everyone clapped when we made a safe landing. We left the plane and the cold just hit us. It was freezing. Its like -6 degrees Celsius. AGGGHHH!!!! Freezing. Below freezing in fact. We got to Aunty Sharon’s without much fuss and here we are. Chilling (literally) with fellow Aussies. And now for sleep.
23-12-08
Woke up this morning at around 9am. And its below freezing. And its really pretty. Icicles on the roof, snow on trees, snow everywhere. There is sooo much snow. I’ve never seen so much snow in my life. Even when we go skiing. There’s more snow in the backyard here then the entire ski field. Ok, so that’s a little bit of an exaggeration but you get my drift. There is a lot of SNOW. The houses are all like little gingerbread houses. Just like in the movies. The ones where it is all wintery and snow is everywhere – that’s what it’s actually like.
There is one thing I would like to say here. In America, the small print actually matters. They’ll advertise a swim with the manatees for a certain amount but if you want a wetsuit and snorkel and mask then you have to pay extra. A $6.99 buffet meal (excludes lunch and dinner and weekends). The small print really matters. And tax isn’t included in the price. So the advertised price is not what you pay. It’s annoying.
We experienced the supermarket today. It was just like it is back home only there was waaay more sugary cereals and hardly any honey. They pack your bags for you and put them into the trolley for you. I wore my “I’m mean because you’re stupid” jumper and it got a lot of laughs. People were commenting on it. The ladies at the cash register (the check out chicks) chatted to us about Australia and the weather and other stuff. It was cool. We bought a heap of veggies and fruit and are gonna make a massive veggie soup (just like we have all been craving). Uncle Brian bought eggnog which we tried. It tastes really good. Like a liquidy sweet custard. Its nice.
Check out the photos –
Las Vegas - http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=56340&l=62330&id=694975793
Hoover Dam - http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=56341&l=335e6&id=694975793
Orlando – Disney Parks - http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=56342&l=30d47&id=694975793
Tampa – Busch Gardens and swimming with the Manatees http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=56343&l=12f74&id=694975793
Wednesday, December 24, 2008
Saturday, December 20, 2008
the rest of Olrando and the Busch Gardens
17-12-08 (Wednesday)
Magic Kingdom
Today we did the Magic Kingdom. You know, the place with the giant Disney castle, the place where all your dreams come true. Well…mine didn’t. I still don’t have my Prince Charming and I still can’t sing like a Disney Princess. But I did meet a couple of characters. Guess what guys!! I met Prince Caspian. Yeah, take that. And he kissed me and told me I was beautiful. Then I got a photo. And he did it all over again with Tamika. And I thought I was special. Loser. We also met Aladdin and Genie. Yes, that’s right girls, the one and only ALADDIN!! He was cute. Do you know what’s awesome? Having an accent. It makes you totally cool. Tamika and I are the oldest people in the line wanting photos with characters. We stand in line and everyone else in like 5. We feel kind of odd standing there. Our excuse is that we never met them when we were little so we’re making up for it now. We watched Aladdin while in the line and he would sign for Genie and then Genie would point to the paper and ‘sign’ so the kids thought he used magic. It was cute. We hit the rides and they were all pretty cool. We watched a couple of shows and chilled. It was a long day. We got to see fireworks behind the castle. Like at the beginning of all Disney movies and they have Tinkerbell who starts the fireworks…well it all happened just like that. It was pretty amazing. We then headed back to our hotel that has a bed just for me. Tomorrow we hit Animal Kingdom.
18-12-08 (Thursday)
Animal Kingdom
Animal Kingdom is pretty cool. There’s animals everywhere and rides and all that jazz. Dad absolutely loved it. Lions and tigers and bears…oh my. Actually there weren’t any tigers or bears. But there were monkeys and birds and dinosaurs. Yeah, real live dinosaurs that we brought back from the past. We even saw the dinosaur on all the surveillance cameras. We experienced what its like to be an honorary bug. It was kinda scary. The 3D movies were great at Disney. Waaay better that anything we’ve ever seen before. We checked out more of the animals, saw an awesome Lion King show and an amazing Finding Nemo puppet show. It was all really cool. We totally let Stitch escape but I did all I could. It wasn’t my fault I was strapped to a chair. One thing I will say, when Disney do a ride or a show they totally go all out. We have decided that it is the attention to detail that totally makes all the Disney theme parks so good.
19-12-08 (Friday)
Busch Gardens
What can I say about Busch Gardens? There were no lines, heaps of awesome rollercoasters and animals. It was sooo much fun. Tamika and I did all the rides at least once. Cause there were no lines we often did then a couple of times. We did the water ones first and we survived the first 2 with a token amount of dryness left but the third one we did, the river rapids, it totally soaked us. We had no dry clothes, our hair was saturated and it took us the rest of the day to dry off. It also didn’t help that when we were not in the sun we froze. We saw a couple of shows and they were all of the highest quality which probably has a lot to do with the fact that the people on the shows had probably done it over and over and over again. But they were good. Mum and Dad walked around in a daze most of the day. We got Dad to do the SheiKra. There’s a massive drop and Dad was kind of petrified. But he enjoyed the ride. Tamika and I defied the 5 (as they say) and did the 5 wildest rides there a couple of times over. It was a great day for all.
We, once again, experienced the joy of being Australians. People come over and chat to you. Then they kind of expect you to continue talking and all you want to do is get on rides. It does get kind of annoying.
Dad won’t stop talking about this chick from brekky. Apparently she ate heaps and Dad counted it all. We hear about her over and over again. I guess we’ll see her tomorrow at brekky.
One thing that we have noticed is Dad’s complete disorientation in America. He gets lost so easily. And he doesn’t know which way to go. It’s actually quite funny to watch him. He gets to experience what it’s like to be a female. He’s hating it. Know he kind of knows what it’s like for every female to drive somewhere they’ve never been before. A learning experience for him.
20-12-08 (Saturday)
We did the Busch Gardens again today. Tamika and I had done all the rides so we were pretty ok with just chilling and seeing the animals. One thing we realized is that Mum and Dad did nothing yesterday. They must of just wandered around in a complete gaze for the entire day. We kept going on walks and Dad would be like “this wasn’t here yesterday”. They seriously did nothing all day. The animals were cool. They had meerkats, lions, hyenas, the black swan, pelicans, ugly seagulls, lemurs (the heeby jeeby monkey from Madagascar), elephants, skunks, humans (lots of humans), and fat people. There were lots of birds, school kids (everyone is on holidays), giraffes, zebras, chimpanzees, gorillas (we have come to the conclusion that I have inherited my small thumb from our chimpanzee ancestors). Let’s just say that we saw heaps of animals. That’s about all we did today.
I was craving veggies today (I know, shock horror!) so we hit a cheap buffet and ate heaps of veggies and salad. Dad ate a fair bit of meat. This living off Taco Bell and free brekky thing is really taking its toll on us. Maybe it explains our constant state of tiredness. Maybe tomorrow we’ll have all this energy. Like I do now. I’m not an expert on jet lag but I totally thought it would have been finished by now. Don’t sleep well at night but always tired during the day. It sucks.
Well…I have an early morning tomorrow – 5am so I’m gonna hit the sack. This brings you all fully and completely up to date with all the happenings of the Sutton Family (who, unfortunately, do not have a family holiday t-shirt, which, if we did, I would NEVER wear in public like so many Americans seem to be able to do)
Magic Kingdom
Today we did the Magic Kingdom. You know, the place with the giant Disney castle, the place where all your dreams come true. Well…mine didn’t. I still don’t have my Prince Charming and I still can’t sing like a Disney Princess. But I did meet a couple of characters. Guess what guys!! I met Prince Caspian. Yeah, take that. And he kissed me and told me I was beautiful. Then I got a photo. And he did it all over again with Tamika. And I thought I was special. Loser. We also met Aladdin and Genie. Yes, that’s right girls, the one and only ALADDIN!! He was cute. Do you know what’s awesome? Having an accent. It makes you totally cool. Tamika and I are the oldest people in the line wanting photos with characters. We stand in line and everyone else in like 5. We feel kind of odd standing there. Our excuse is that we never met them when we were little so we’re making up for it now. We watched Aladdin while in the line and he would sign for Genie and then Genie would point to the paper and ‘sign’ so the kids thought he used magic. It was cute. We hit the rides and they were all pretty cool. We watched a couple of shows and chilled. It was a long day. We got to see fireworks behind the castle. Like at the beginning of all Disney movies and they have Tinkerbell who starts the fireworks…well it all happened just like that. It was pretty amazing. We then headed back to our hotel that has a bed just for me. Tomorrow we hit Animal Kingdom.
18-12-08 (Thursday)
Animal Kingdom
Animal Kingdom is pretty cool. There’s animals everywhere and rides and all that jazz. Dad absolutely loved it. Lions and tigers and bears…oh my. Actually there weren’t any tigers or bears. But there were monkeys and birds and dinosaurs. Yeah, real live dinosaurs that we brought back from the past. We even saw the dinosaur on all the surveillance cameras. We experienced what its like to be an honorary bug. It was kinda scary. The 3D movies were great at Disney. Waaay better that anything we’ve ever seen before. We checked out more of the animals, saw an awesome Lion King show and an amazing Finding Nemo puppet show. It was all really cool. We totally let Stitch escape but I did all I could. It wasn’t my fault I was strapped to a chair. One thing I will say, when Disney do a ride or a show they totally go all out. We have decided that it is the attention to detail that totally makes all the Disney theme parks so good.
19-12-08 (Friday)
Busch Gardens
What can I say about Busch Gardens? There were no lines, heaps of awesome rollercoasters and animals. It was sooo much fun. Tamika and I did all the rides at least once. Cause there were no lines we often did then a couple of times. We did the water ones first and we survived the first 2 with a token amount of dryness left but the third one we did, the river rapids, it totally soaked us. We had no dry clothes, our hair was saturated and it took us the rest of the day to dry off. It also didn’t help that when we were not in the sun we froze. We saw a couple of shows and they were all of the highest quality which probably has a lot to do with the fact that the people on the shows had probably done it over and over and over again. But they were good. Mum and Dad walked around in a daze most of the day. We got Dad to do the SheiKra. There’s a massive drop and Dad was kind of petrified. But he enjoyed the ride. Tamika and I defied the 5 (as they say) and did the 5 wildest rides there a couple of times over. It was a great day for all.
We, once again, experienced the joy of being Australians. People come over and chat to you. Then they kind of expect you to continue talking and all you want to do is get on rides. It does get kind of annoying.
Dad won’t stop talking about this chick from brekky. Apparently she ate heaps and Dad counted it all. We hear about her over and over again. I guess we’ll see her tomorrow at brekky.
One thing that we have noticed is Dad’s complete disorientation in America. He gets lost so easily. And he doesn’t know which way to go. It’s actually quite funny to watch him. He gets to experience what it’s like to be a female. He’s hating it. Know he kind of knows what it’s like for every female to drive somewhere they’ve never been before. A learning experience for him.
20-12-08 (Saturday)
We did the Busch Gardens again today. Tamika and I had done all the rides so we were pretty ok with just chilling and seeing the animals. One thing we realized is that Mum and Dad did nothing yesterday. They must of just wandered around in a complete gaze for the entire day. We kept going on walks and Dad would be like “this wasn’t here yesterday”. They seriously did nothing all day. The animals were cool. They had meerkats, lions, hyenas, the black swan, pelicans, ugly seagulls, lemurs (the heeby jeeby monkey from Madagascar), elephants, skunks, humans (lots of humans), and fat people. There were lots of birds, school kids (everyone is on holidays), giraffes, zebras, chimpanzees, gorillas (we have come to the conclusion that I have inherited my small thumb from our chimpanzee ancestors). Let’s just say that we saw heaps of animals. That’s about all we did today.
I was craving veggies today (I know, shock horror!) so we hit a cheap buffet and ate heaps of veggies and salad. Dad ate a fair bit of meat. This living off Taco Bell and free brekky thing is really taking its toll on us. Maybe it explains our constant state of tiredness. Maybe tomorrow we’ll have all this energy. Like I do now. I’m not an expert on jet lag but I totally thought it would have been finished by now. Don’t sleep well at night but always tired during the day. It sucks.
Well…I have an early morning tomorrow – 5am so I’m gonna hit the sack. This brings you all fully and completely up to date with all the happenings of the Sutton Family (who, unfortunately, do not have a family holiday t-shirt, which, if we did, I would NEVER wear in public like so many Americans seem to be able to do)
Thursday, December 18, 2008
the last week (minus the last 2 days)
we've had dodgy internet for the past week. It's two days behind so bear with me cause I'm pretty exhausted.
12 Friday
Today we did the Grand Canyon. It was pretty cold when we woke up. There was ice on the ground (not like a little bit of ice but enough ice to pass as snow). It was all very exciting. We had a pretty awesome spread for brekky. Thankyou America and you included continental breakfast. We always eat heaps when its free so we tucked in and devoured our way through a fair amount of cereal, bagels, bread, yoghurt and eggs (we never know when we will be eating next!). We then headed to the departure place for our helicopter ride. They didn’t know who we were and couldn’t find our booking so that was kinda stressful. Turns out we were supposed to be departing from the west rim of the Grand Canyon and we were currently at the south rim. We decided to head to the west rim cause we wanted to do our original helicopter ride cause it sounded waaaay cooler then what they were offering us. Let me tell you, the drive from the south rim to the west rim takes a long time. About 4 hours. Of driving. On freeways. Dad was not impressed. But we are glad we did cause the Canyon was amazing! We got on a helicopter and they flew us around for a bit and then took us to the bottom of the canyone where we jumped on a boat and went up the river a little and then back down it. The current absolutely pelts down that river. Like seriously…going back down the river took hardly anytime and we let the current do it ALL. We got some pretty awesome photos and stuff. We then headed to Phoenix, Arizona. A nice 6 hour drive to add to our already hefty total of driving for that day. When we finally arrived in Arizona we basically just bunkered down for the night. Although Dad did say there was decent Christmas lights closeby so we went on a little excursion to find them. We didn’t find them. We went to bed.
13-12-08 Saturday
Sunday, Sunday we headed to New Orleans (pronounced New Orlans). We didn’t drive there because that would have taken forever so we said a fond farewell to our rental car and jumped on a long flight to New Orleans. We arrived in New Orleans and went to the hotel via these amazing Christmas lights. They totally left Arizona’s lights for dead. We then headed into town and meandered down Bourbon Street. Apparently it’s all changed since the hurricane so we didn’t hang around and listen to the music and drink in the atmosphere for very long. It was a little wild for the family with all the drinking and drinking and dodgy music and drinking and smoking and drinking so we headed home. But it was nice to see New Orleans “at it’s best”. We did get told off for taking a photo. The woman was so incredibly rude about it as well.
We then headed to these gardens and walked around for a while. They had their Christmas light out and it was all romantic with couples all around, hugging and stuff. Mum and Dad caught the bug and it was like total third wheel for me and Tamika. Apparently old people still enjoy holding hands. I think they should do it in the privacy of a cosy corner without children anywhere near. We then went home…to this amazing Inn. It was pretty sweet but the beds were really skinny. Tamika and I haven’t slept that close in like…forever!
14-12-08 Sunday
We hit the town of New Orleans today. Went to Café du Monde, had their awesome beignets (icing sugar covered fried pastry donut things – really really good), we checked out the Mississippi (which may have been nice if I wasn’t sick of hearing about it from Huck Finn – stupid year 12), wandered down the markets (all the artwork…), caught a tram/bus thing (so loud…and SLOW, but unlike cityrail it was always on time) and drove around and saw some pretty cool bayou trees. We also saw some of the devestation from Hurricane Katrina. Three years on and it’s still pretty bad in areas. There was this one house, in a rich area, and we were looking at it going, “there’s something strange about that”. We looked a little closer and it turns out that the guy was raising the house so that it was on stilts. And he wasn’t just raising the house, he was also raising the concrete slab foundations. Strange. We then headed back to the airport and chilled there for a couple of hours while waiting for our plane. When we arrived in Orlando, Florida, it was late…like 11pm so we headed to our hotel. When we walked through the door we were totally in love with the place. There’s 2 rooms, a bathroom, a kitchenette and I’m sleeping on the sofa bed. I get my own bed, in my own room. Who could ask for more?? Boy am I gonna sleep well tonight.
15-12-08 Monday
Today’s breakfast was pretty good. We eat heaps when its free at the hotel cause we’re never quite sure when we’re gonna eat next. We hit Epcot today. The place that has the giant golf ball looking structure. The first of four days at the Disney theme parks. It was pretty cool. Mainly it was all educational stuff with a few rides thrown in and shows. We got to ride a Segway (a awesomely cool mode of transportation) and we played a recycling game (it was waaay cooler than it sounds) we also checked out the nations. We are so totally buggered now. A huuuuge day it was full of walking and standing and walking and standing. We didn’t eat anything at the park cause we were way to busy doing rides. There was this Coke place and so we went there and grabbed a whole heap of free drinks and that’s all we consumed over the period of the day. The night show was pretty cool. Lights, lasers, fireworks, water, a giant earth with images projected onto it and fire. Breathtaking, but the fireworks were a little bit like the San Christmas Carols, or new year in Sydney. We are totally spoilt with fireworks back home. We headed home via Taco Bell (their food is awesome and its pretty much all we’re eating over here along with the free breakfasts).
We are totally exhausted now. Ready to hit Hollywood Studios tomorrow.
16-12-08 Tuesday
We caught up with Daniel today. He dropped in, stole breakfast, chatted and took off. It was great seeing him. We are half way around the world but in the same state, 2 miles from each other and we totally didn’t plan it. We then headed to Hollywood Studios.
We have totally figured out the line thing. The trick is to grab a fastpass (which gives you a time to come back) and then you head out and watch a show. You then go ride and then head off and get another fastpass then see another show. Basically means you don’t wait in any lines. We saw a couple of stunt shows, a couple of music shows (Beauty and the Beast, The Little Mermaid), did a couple of rides, it was great. We walked, and stood, and walked, and stood. It was heaps of fun. I have one thing to say though, Americans seem to have a fascination with wearing matching shirts. Not accidentally, but entire family groups. There was this one group that had shirts that said “Disney Family Vacation 2008”. Retarded!!!
Anyway, I’m pretty tired and wanting to go to bed so until next time…
12 Friday
Today we did the Grand Canyon. It was pretty cold when we woke up. There was ice on the ground (not like a little bit of ice but enough ice to pass as snow). It was all very exciting. We had a pretty awesome spread for brekky. Thankyou America and you included continental breakfast. We always eat heaps when its free so we tucked in and devoured our way through a fair amount of cereal, bagels, bread, yoghurt and eggs (we never know when we will be eating next!). We then headed to the departure place for our helicopter ride. They didn’t know who we were and couldn’t find our booking so that was kinda stressful. Turns out we were supposed to be departing from the west rim of the Grand Canyon and we were currently at the south rim. We decided to head to the west rim cause we wanted to do our original helicopter ride cause it sounded waaaay cooler then what they were offering us. Let me tell you, the drive from the south rim to the west rim takes a long time. About 4 hours. Of driving. On freeways. Dad was not impressed. But we are glad we did cause the Canyon was amazing! We got on a helicopter and they flew us around for a bit and then took us to the bottom of the canyone where we jumped on a boat and went up the river a little and then back down it. The current absolutely pelts down that river. Like seriously…going back down the river took hardly anytime and we let the current do it ALL. We got some pretty awesome photos and stuff. We then headed to Phoenix, Arizona. A nice 6 hour drive to add to our already hefty total of driving for that day. When we finally arrived in Arizona we basically just bunkered down for the night. Although Dad did say there was decent Christmas lights closeby so we went on a little excursion to find them. We didn’t find them. We went to bed.
13-12-08 Saturday
Sunday, Sunday we headed to New Orleans (pronounced New Orlans). We didn’t drive there because that would have taken forever so we said a fond farewell to our rental car and jumped on a long flight to New Orleans. We arrived in New Orleans and went to the hotel via these amazing Christmas lights. They totally left Arizona’s lights for dead. We then headed into town and meandered down Bourbon Street. Apparently it’s all changed since the hurricane so we didn’t hang around and listen to the music and drink in the atmosphere for very long. It was a little wild for the family with all the drinking and drinking and dodgy music and drinking and smoking and drinking so we headed home. But it was nice to see New Orleans “at it’s best”. We did get told off for taking a photo. The woman was so incredibly rude about it as well.
We then headed to these gardens and walked around for a while. They had their Christmas light out and it was all romantic with couples all around, hugging and stuff. Mum and Dad caught the bug and it was like total third wheel for me and Tamika. Apparently old people still enjoy holding hands. I think they should do it in the privacy of a cosy corner without children anywhere near. We then went home…to this amazing Inn. It was pretty sweet but the beds were really skinny. Tamika and I haven’t slept that close in like…forever!
14-12-08 Sunday
We hit the town of New Orleans today. Went to Café du Monde, had their awesome beignets (icing sugar covered fried pastry donut things – really really good), we checked out the Mississippi (which may have been nice if I wasn’t sick of hearing about it from Huck Finn – stupid year 12), wandered down the markets (all the artwork…), caught a tram/bus thing (so loud…and SLOW, but unlike cityrail it was always on time) and drove around and saw some pretty cool bayou trees. We also saw some of the devestation from Hurricane Katrina. Three years on and it’s still pretty bad in areas. There was this one house, in a rich area, and we were looking at it going, “there’s something strange about that”. We looked a little closer and it turns out that the guy was raising the house so that it was on stilts. And he wasn’t just raising the house, he was also raising the concrete slab foundations. Strange. We then headed back to the airport and chilled there for a couple of hours while waiting for our plane. When we arrived in Orlando, Florida, it was late…like 11pm so we headed to our hotel. When we walked through the door we were totally in love with the place. There’s 2 rooms, a bathroom, a kitchenette and I’m sleeping on the sofa bed. I get my own bed, in my own room. Who could ask for more?? Boy am I gonna sleep well tonight.
15-12-08 Monday
Today’s breakfast was pretty good. We eat heaps when its free at the hotel cause we’re never quite sure when we’re gonna eat next. We hit Epcot today. The place that has the giant golf ball looking structure. The first of four days at the Disney theme parks. It was pretty cool. Mainly it was all educational stuff with a few rides thrown in and shows. We got to ride a Segway (a awesomely cool mode of transportation) and we played a recycling game (it was waaay cooler than it sounds) we also checked out the nations. We are so totally buggered now. A huuuuge day it was full of walking and standing and walking and standing. We didn’t eat anything at the park cause we were way to busy doing rides. There was this Coke place and so we went there and grabbed a whole heap of free drinks and that’s all we consumed over the period of the day. The night show was pretty cool. Lights, lasers, fireworks, water, a giant earth with images projected onto it and fire. Breathtaking, but the fireworks were a little bit like the San Christmas Carols, or new year in Sydney. We are totally spoilt with fireworks back home. We headed home via Taco Bell (their food is awesome and its pretty much all we’re eating over here along with the free breakfasts).
We are totally exhausted now. Ready to hit Hollywood Studios tomorrow.
16-12-08 Tuesday
We caught up with Daniel today. He dropped in, stole breakfast, chatted and took off. It was great seeing him. We are half way around the world but in the same state, 2 miles from each other and we totally didn’t plan it. We then headed to Hollywood Studios.
We have totally figured out the line thing. The trick is to grab a fastpass (which gives you a time to come back) and then you head out and watch a show. You then go ride and then head off and get another fastpass then see another show. Basically means you don’t wait in any lines. We saw a couple of stunt shows, a couple of music shows (Beauty and the Beast, The Little Mermaid), did a couple of rides, it was great. We walked, and stood, and walked, and stood. It was heaps of fun. I have one thing to say though, Americans seem to have a fascination with wearing matching shirts. Not accidentally, but entire family groups. There was this one group that had shirts that said “Disney Family Vacation 2008”. Retarded!!!
Anyway, I’m pretty tired and wanting to go to bed so until next time…
Thursday, December 11, 2008
10-12-08 (Wednesday)
So, this will be posted late because Dad used up all the time we had left on the internet. I will now give you a description of what we have all been up to in Las Vegas, the city of ultimate sin. We arrived here without fuss, thanks to Gazza (the really unattractive name we have given to our really attractive GPS). We are staying at the El Cortez which, we have come to believe, is the casino for old people in downtown Las Vegas. The room is like twice the size of anything we have stayed in so far. We don’t have to step all over each other to the bathroom and there’s enough room between the beds and the T.V to do a couple of star jumps (f we were that way inclined). It’s pretty good. Dad is continually telling us that we have to come up with some rules, but I think the rest of the family is pretty happy to just continue doing what we’ve been doing so far – keep you clothes in your bag and in your little confined area of space.
The first day we got here (Sunday) we chilled in our overly big room and then headed down to Fremont Street to experience
what they call “The Fremont Street Experience”. It was pretty cool. Apparently all the old facades from “The Strip” have been moved into Fremont Street as the buildings are all updated so we really got this old school Las Vegas experience. They also have this incredibly huge T.V screen and if you listen to what the Americans tell you they reckon it’s the biggest one in the world. It was pretty big. Every hour they have this light show thing going on and it’s pretty amazing. There will be video of it up on youtube asap. It’s like a 100m screen with music and video. CRAZY sensory overload. We had deepfried oreos and twinkies which was kinda feral but seeing as we’re in America we decided to try out all their feral concoctions. All you could really taste was deep fried batter. Yummmmy. We then headed down to The Strip for a bit just to check it out. I was pretty exhausted from a day of sitting in the car and just wanted to go home to bed but we all soldiered on with some whinging involved. Can I just say here that Las Vegas doesn’t have the same tacky lights that Dad told us it would have. They have gotten rid of most of the lights and replaced them with video screens and stuff so the tacky, over-the-top-ness that we were expecting wasn’t there. It was still pretty impressive though. We headed home on the bus (which takes forever) and crashed.
Monday was also a day of fun. We walked up most of The Strip (something that I don’t think a lot of people can boast of doing seeing as most of them are pretty drunk and are too busy playing the pokies) and were harassed by little fat men trying to give us cards with pictures and phone numbers on them. I wouldn’t recommend walking up The Strip if you are not into being harassed everytime you pause to look at a building, or wait for the lights to go green. We went to M&M world which was 4 stories of purely M&M related stuff. It was pretty cool. T-shirts, mugs, cups, jumpers, toys, key rings, movies (it was 3d and pretty dodge compared to what we’d seen at Universal Studios) and a whole lot of chocolate. It
was soo goooooood. We found the sales rack and went a little crazy. Tamika and Mum bought a t-shirt each and I got these wicked pajama pants and we got a Christmas decoration and then a free gift for spending too much money. We then crossed over into Coca-Cola World which was only 2 levels of Coke related stuff. BUT they did have these smelly shirts that smelt like drinks. It was pretty cool. They also had a pretty poor imitation Bundy bear. I don’t think they meant to copy Bundaberg but they did, only the Coke bear is way creepier. We then wandered back down the Strip. Did you know that one of the Casinos had a lion display? Like real live lions in the Casino. We didn’t even have to travel to a zoo. Crazy. It cost $9 million to set up and we don’t even wanna know how much it costs to maintain. We then headed down to another casino (called the Flamingo) and checked out their Flamingo collection along with other exotic birds. Yes, that’s right, they had flamingos and we got to see them. They were all asleep but that that’s beside the point. Their exotic birds consisted of Ibis’ (yeah, that’s right, those ugly birds at the beach that steal your chips and stuff), black swans, ducks (yeah DUCKS – exotic? I think not) and some other bird that was actually pretty cool. We then headed to the Cirque du Soliel (unsure about spelling) which was AMAZING!!! totally cool. There were clowns, acrobats, muscle men, pole climbers, trapeze artists, awesome costumes. It was awesome. I would definitely recommend it to anyone who wishes to feel insignificant in strength, flexibility or clothing selection. We then headed home to the casino…took forever.
Tuesday
Today we totally slept in. Tamika and I went and watched Twilight (yeah, that’s right, we totally saw it before anyone of you guys living in Australia) and it was pretty good. The movie had a delayed start cause there was something wrong with the movie. An hour we waited. How hard is it to press the play button? So we didn’t start touring till 5pm. We ate lunch/brekky/dinner at the hotel at around 3ish. The food here is pretty cheap considering the size you get. Like a $7.50
Caesar salad is HUGE!! It totally beat me. I could only eat half of it before having to give it away. I tried root beer (which was something I’ve always wanted to do). It’s just sarsparella under a different name. Liquid liquorice. I’m never getting it again. They lie on the movies…it doesn’t taste any good. We then caught the bus to Tuesday night’s show. It was a variety show with a whole heap of different acts. There was comedy, amazing magic (he used birds I tell you), awesome juggling, the TV guy and lots of laughs. There were a heap of Aussies in the audience and one of them started the Aussie Aussie Aussie chant. It totally confused the host for the night…he wasn’t expecting it at all and he was just like “what the?”. We then jumped on the bus and did a full loop. It takes forever to do a full loop. Like 2 hrs cause the bus has to stop at like EVERY stop along the strip. But it was a nice drive. We also checked out the local free shows which were cool and I ran into Captain Jack Sparrow. He was pretty cute, smelt like rum, smoke, rum and alcohol. I wouldn’t date him…ever…he smelt terrible.
So, this will be posted late because Dad used up all the time we had left on the internet. I will now give you a description of what we have all been up to in Las Vegas, the city of ultimate sin. We arrived here without fuss, thanks to Gazza (the really unattractive name we have given to our really attractive GPS). We are staying at the El Cortez which, we have come to believe, is the casino for old people in downtown Las Vegas. The room is like twice the size of anything we have stayed in so far. We don’t have to step all over each other to the bathroom and there’s enough room between the beds and the T.V to do a couple of star jumps (f we were that way inclined). It’s pretty good. Dad is continually telling us that we have to come up with some rules, but I think the rest of the family is pretty happy to just continue doing what we’ve been doing so far – keep you clothes in your bag and in your little confined area of space.
The first day we got here (Sunday) we chilled in our overly big room and then headed down to Fremont Street to experience
what they call “The Fremont Street Experience”. It was pretty cool. Apparently all the old facades from “The Strip” have been moved into Fremont Street as the buildings are all updated so we really got this old school Las Vegas experience. They also have this incredibly huge T.V screen and if you listen to what the Americans tell you they reckon it’s the biggest one in the world. It was pretty big. Every hour they have this light show thing going on and it’s pretty amazing. There will be video of it up on youtube asap. It’s like a 100m screen with music and video. CRAZY sensory overload. We had deepfried oreos and twinkies which was kinda feral but seeing as we’re in America we decided to try out all their feral concoctions. All you could really taste was deep fried batter. Yummmmy. We then headed down to The Strip for a bit just to check it out. I was pretty exhausted from a day of sitting in the car and just wanted to go home to bed but we all soldiered on with some whinging involved. Can I just say here that Las Vegas doesn’t have the same tacky lights that Dad told us it would have. They have gotten rid of most of the lights and replaced them with video screens and stuff so the tacky, over-the-top-ness that we were expecting wasn’t there. It was still pretty impressive though. We headed home on the bus (which takes forever) and crashed.Monday was also a day of fun. We walked up most of The Strip (something that I don’t think a lot of people can boast of doing seeing as most of them are pretty drunk and are too busy playing the pokies) and were harassed by little fat men trying to give us cards with pictures and phone numbers on them. I wouldn’t recommend walking up The Strip if you are not into being harassed everytime you pause to look at a building, or wait for the lights to go green. We went to M&M world which was 4 stories of purely M&M related stuff. It was pretty cool. T-shirts, mugs, cups, jumpers, toys, key rings, movies (it was 3d and pretty dodge compared to what we’d seen at Universal Studios) and a whole lot of chocolate. It
was soo goooooood. We found the sales rack and went a little crazy. Tamika and Mum bought a t-shirt each and I got these wicked pajama pants and we got a Christmas decoration and then a free gift for spending too much money. We then crossed over into Coca-Cola World which was only 2 levels of Coke related stuff. BUT they did have these smelly shirts that smelt like drinks. It was pretty cool. They also had a pretty poor imitation Bundy bear. I don’t think they meant to copy Bundaberg but they did, only the Coke bear is way creepier. We then wandered back down the Strip. Did you know that one of the Casinos had a lion display? Like real live lions in the Casino. We didn’t even have to travel to a zoo. Crazy. It cost $9 million to set up and we don’t even wanna know how much it costs to maintain. We then headed down to another casino (called the Flamingo) and checked out their Flamingo collection along with other exotic birds. Yes, that’s right, they had flamingos and we got to see them. They were all asleep but that that’s beside the point. Their exotic birds consisted of Ibis’ (yeah, that’s right, those ugly birds at the beach that steal your chips and stuff), black swans, ducks (yeah DUCKS – exotic? I think not) and some other bird that was actually pretty cool. We then headed to the Cirque du Soliel (unsure about spelling) which was AMAZING!!! totally cool. There were clowns, acrobats, muscle men, pole climbers, trapeze artists, awesome costumes. It was awesome. I would definitely recommend it to anyone who wishes to feel insignificant in strength, flexibility or clothing selection. We then headed home to the casino…took forever.Tuesday
Today we totally slept in. Tamika and I went and watched Twilight (yeah, that’s right, we totally saw it before anyone of you guys living in Australia) and it was pretty good. The movie had a delayed start cause there was something wrong with the movie. An hour we waited. How hard is it to press the play button? So we didn’t start touring till 5pm. We ate lunch/brekky/dinner at the hotel at around 3ish. The food here is pretty cheap considering the size you get. Like a $7.50
Caesar salad is HUGE!! It totally beat me. I could only eat half of it before having to give it away. I tried root beer (which was something I’ve always wanted to do). It’s just sarsparella under a different name. Liquid liquorice. I’m never getting it again. They lie on the movies…it doesn’t taste any good. We then caught the bus to Tuesday night’s show. It was a variety show with a whole heap of different acts. There was comedy, amazing magic (he used birds I tell you), awesome juggling, the TV guy and lots of laughs. There were a heap of Aussies in the audience and one of them started the Aussie Aussie Aussie chant. It totally confused the host for the night…he wasn’t expecting it at all and he was just like “what the?”. We then jumped on the bus and did a full loop. It takes forever to do a full loop. Like 2 hrs cause the bus has to stop at like EVERY stop along the strip. But it was a nice drive. We also checked out the local free shows which were cool and I ran into Captain Jack Sparrow. He was pretty cute, smelt like rum, smoke, rum and alcohol. I wouldn’t date him…ever…he smelt terrible.Wednesday
So today we did LOTS of shopping. We went to the local factory outlet which is basically a more expensive, more glorified version of a DFO. Kind of disappointing really. But we found this store called Hot Topic and it was awesome. Like, it has shirts from movies and tv programs. Tamika went wild on the Twilight stand. I found an Invader Zim stand which was pretty cool. I didn’t get anything from Invader Zim but I now have a Gryffindor tank top and a “Team Jacob” Twilight shirt. Tamika bought a “Team Edward” jumper. Now we have an excuse to fight like vampires and werewolves J. If anyone wants anything maybe check their website out (http://www.hottopic.com/) and if we find another one I’ll get it for you…maybe…if you pay me back. We also discovered the cheap Disney store. 80% off and it was cool. We bought a couple of t-shirts and jumpers and stuff. We then headed back into town ate at this buffet. There was soooo much food. And it was all gooood. We were all pretty starving and it was nice to be able to sit down and stuff our faces. Ice-cream, cake, ice-cream, moose, ice-cream, chocolate. We also had a few veggies and stuff. It was really good. Tamika, Mum and I then went to Madame Tussauds. Wax museum. We met some cool wax people, got married to George Clooney, shot hoops with Zac Effron, chatted with Oprah, danced with Beyonce, kissed Johnny Depp and chilled out with George Bush (after the people in front of us kicked him in the unmentionables). We then had to look for Dad who had moved the car around and we got a little stressed. We found him and headed home. Tamika and I went and saw Madagascar 2 which is pretty funny. We then headed home after the movie and had an “early” night.
Thursday
We left Vegas today. Thank goodness. We were all getting pretty sick of the smoke and little men handing out calling cards for “Hot Babes”. We travelled for ages in the car. The scenery went from dirt with a few rocks, to rocks with a little dirt to mountainous rocks, to brown rocks, to rocks and dirt to rocks, dirt and an excuse for greenery to more greenery to trees to pine trees. Now it’s green and really quite cold. We drove along Route 66 for a while and the towns along it hold on to their “historic” roots. They actually seem to collect old cars and rednecks and hicks. They don’t update their town, there are Christmas decorations EVERYWHERE to the point where it over-the-top. Whatever, you know, if that’s what they wanna do and have everyone think they are retarded then so be it.
We went to Hoover Dam today. It’s a pretty impressive piece of manmade infrastructure. Huge, deep and lots of concrete. Crazy. One side of the dam is in Nevada (and all touristy) and the other side is in Arizona (not at all touristy). It’s pretty cool.
We arrived at the Grand Canyon just before sunset. It’s really beautiful. And huge. And Dad’s fear of heights kicked in and he was freaking out. We have some nice photos but it got dark pretty quick. And there was snow and ice all over the place. Not blanketing the ground but enough to tell you that it’s gonna be cold. And it was. Freezing almost. And tomorrows forecast is -5 to 12 degrees Celsius. That’s kinda cold. But it’s gonna be a fun couple of days. Helicopter ride tomorrow and then heading to the warmer climate of Phoenix, Arizona. The fact that we are currently in Arizona means nothing. I’m hoping its warmer in Phoenix (note to all those Twilight fans, yes, it is the same place that Bella comes face-to-face with death and becoming a vampire).
Well that just about gets you all up to date with our happenings…will post later when I have something interesting to say.
So today we did LOTS of shopping. We went to the local factory outlet which is basically a more expensive, more glorified version of a DFO. Kind of disappointing really. But we found this store called Hot Topic and it was awesome. Like, it has shirts from movies and tv programs. Tamika went wild on the Twilight stand. I found an Invader Zim stand which was pretty cool. I didn’t get anything from Invader Zim but I now have a Gryffindor tank top and a “Team Jacob” Twilight shirt. Tamika bought a “Team Edward” jumper. Now we have an excuse to fight like vampires and werewolves J. If anyone wants anything maybe check their website out (http://www.hottopic.com/) and if we find another one I’ll get it for you…maybe…if you pay me back. We also discovered the cheap Disney store. 80% off and it was cool. We bought a couple of t-shirts and jumpers and stuff. We then headed back into town ate at this buffet. There was soooo much food. And it was all gooood. We were all pretty starving and it was nice to be able to sit down and stuff our faces. Ice-cream, cake, ice-cream, moose, ice-cream, chocolate. We also had a few veggies and stuff. It was really good. Tamika, Mum and I then went to Madame Tussauds. Wax museum. We met some cool wax people, got married to George Clooney, shot hoops with Zac Effron, chatted with Oprah, danced with Beyonce, kissed Johnny Depp and chilled out with George Bush (after the people in front of us kicked him in the unmentionables). We then had to look for Dad who had moved the car around and we got a little stressed. We found him and headed home. Tamika and I went and saw Madagascar 2 which is pretty funny. We then headed home after the movie and had an “early” night.
Thursday
We left Vegas today. Thank goodness. We were all getting pretty sick of the smoke and little men handing out calling cards for “Hot Babes”. We travelled for ages in the car. The scenery went from dirt with a few rocks, to rocks with a little dirt to mountainous rocks, to brown rocks, to rocks and dirt to rocks, dirt and an excuse for greenery to more greenery to trees to pine trees. Now it’s green and really quite cold. We drove along Route 66 for a while and the towns along it hold on to their “historic” roots. They actually seem to collect old cars and rednecks and hicks. They don’t update their town, there are Christmas decorations EVERYWHERE to the point where it over-the-top. Whatever, you know, if that’s what they wanna do and have everyone think they are retarded then so be it.
We went to Hoover Dam today. It’s a pretty impressive piece of manmade infrastructure. Huge, deep and lots of concrete. Crazy. One side of the dam is in Nevada (and all touristy) and the other side is in Arizona (not at all touristy). It’s pretty cool.
We arrived at the Grand Canyon just before sunset. It’s really beautiful. And huge. And Dad’s fear of heights kicked in and he was freaking out. We have some nice photos but it got dark pretty quick. And there was snow and ice all over the place. Not blanketing the ground but enough to tell you that it’s gonna be cold. And it was. Freezing almost. And tomorrows forecast is -5 to 12 degrees Celsius. That’s kinda cold. But it’s gonna be a fun couple of days. Helicopter ride tomorrow and then heading to the warmer climate of Phoenix, Arizona. The fact that we are currently in Arizona means nothing. I’m hoping its warmer in Phoenix (note to all those Twilight fans, yes, it is the same place that Bella comes face-to-face with death and becoming a vampire).
Well that just about gets you all up to date with our happenings…will post later when I have something interesting to say.
Tuesday, December 9, 2008
7-12-08 p.s we havent had internet hence this being up so late...
7-12-08
We have arrived in LaS vEgAs!! Let me tell you, the drive here took forever. San Diego to Las Vegas took us about 6hrs along massively huge freeways and the scenery consisted of rocks, desert, rocks, shrubs, rocks, cactus, rocks, mountains, rocks, cars, rocks. The car we hired is pretty comfortable to sit in so it wasn’t too bad. But before I get too far ahead of myself let me tell you more about Mexico.
Before we crossed the border Dad had a female driving moment. He tried to reverse park the car about 5 times and each time he ended up with the car in the exact same position. It was HILARIOUS!!! We laughed for ages about it. Now Dad knows what it’s like to be a female and attempt to park a car.
We bought original, Mexican silver (they assured us that it was all legit), heaps of it, for a good price, bargained for 3 belts, a pocket knife and a belt buckle (we got it down from US$160 to $US90) and bargained for some other stuff. We were gonna buy these really cool bags but they were a little expensive. They had made the bags out of squares wrappings. So you could buy a newspaper bag, a chocolate wrapping bag, a lolly wrapper bag. They looked really cool
but for US$30 we couldn’t get them. And the guy was really unwilling to bargain with us so we gave it a miss. We ate some really interesting food as well. There were like these thick pancakes that tasted a little like corn (we think they could have been made from maize but we weren’t sure). They weren’t sweet and they were topped with some interesting stuff. Dad got one with onion (normal) and cactus (yes, that’s right, CACTUS!!). He then added some weird spicy thing and that basically rendered it inedible for the rest of us. Mum got the same sort of pancake thing with onion, mushroom and squash flower. It was unbelievably tasty. I loved it. We also bought these weird donut sticks that were pretty interesting to eat, tasty and all that jazz but we didn’t really want seconds of it. Tamika bought Fanta in a glass bottle but didn’t keep the bottle cause that’s just not how it works over there. We were really lucky when ordering food cause some American guy took pity on our inability to speak Spanish so he helped us out and we were able to get what we wanted. We wandered around the main streets of Tijuana. Revolution Ave was CRAZY!! There are shops on one side of the footpath and then there’s market stalls on the other side footpath. It was Dad’s idea of a nightmare. He doesn’t even go to markets back home and here he was stuck with Mum, Tamika and I wandering through market stalls with people yelling at us in a strange language. I would take the hippie markets in Aus at anytime. But I do enjoy the ability to bargain and feel as though you’re getting it cheap. The roads and driving is like any other third world country. For those of you who have visited places like Thailand, Cambodia, possibly Africa anywhere that isn’t well developed then you know what I’m talking about. I like to quote Pirates of the Cari
bbean here – road rules “are more like guidelines” that they can follow if they want. And the horn is often not used as a way to tell a driver that they just cut you off. It’s a way to say “Look out, I’m coming up beside you”, or “Look, it’s a pedestrian” or “let me through” or “hey, how you going”, “would you like fries with that?”. They use the horns heaps. We have this awesome photo of us in Mexico. We have sombreros on, I’m sitting on a donkey painted to look like a zebra and there is something written on each hat. But I’ll let you figure that one out for yourself.
That pretty much wraps that day up. We were totally exhausted and joined the queue back into the States. It took us over an hour of standing in a line before we got to customs. Mum got asked to empty a bag because she had a piece of fruit in it. It’s always Mum who gets in trouble because she’s so worried about everyone else. Well done Mum!!
Today (7th December) we drove to Las Vegas. It was a really long drive with some OK views. We went a little crazy at times and as soon as I can get internet up for an extended period of time I will post a video on youtube which displays the madness that Tamika experiences. It cracked us up. We also got a little bored while driving and started taking random photos. They are all pretty bad L. Cameron, if your reading this (which I doubt) I have bought you a supersized cup from Maccas. Can you believe that its cheaper to buy a supersized drink then it is to buy a small? 99c for a giant cup! Its HUGE!!! Check it out!
Everything here is HUGE! Crazy
Well we’re about to hit Las Vegas but first Mum and Dad are heading down to the lobby to get a hair dryer (Mum is cannot live without it and is constantly complaining about not having a hair straightener) and ask about what we should do.
I will blog on my return…
We have arrived in LaS vEgAs!! Let me tell you, the drive here took forever. San Diego to Las Vegas took us about 6hrs along massively huge freeways and the scenery consisted of rocks, desert, rocks, shrubs, rocks, cactus, rocks, mountains, rocks, cars, rocks. The car we hired is pretty comfortable to sit in so it wasn’t too bad. But before I get too far ahead of myself let me tell you more about Mexico.
Before we crossed the border Dad had a female driving moment. He tried to reverse park the car about 5 times and each time he ended up with the car in the exact same position. It was HILARIOUS!!! We laughed for ages about it. Now Dad knows what it’s like to be a female and attempt to park a car.
We bought original, Mexican silver (they assured us that it was all legit), heaps of it, for a good price, bargained for 3 belts, a pocket knife and a belt buckle (we got it down from US$160 to $US90) and bargained for some other stuff. We were gonna buy these really cool bags but they were a little expensive. They had made the bags out of squares wrappings. So you could buy a newspaper bag, a chocolate wrapping bag, a lolly wrapper bag. They looked really cool
but for US$30 we couldn’t get them. And the guy was really unwilling to bargain with us so we gave it a miss. We ate some really interesting food as well. There were like these thick pancakes that tasted a little like corn (we think they could have been made from maize but we weren’t sure). They weren’t sweet and they were topped with some interesting stuff. Dad got one with onion (normal) and cactus (yes, that’s right, CACTUS!!). He then added some weird spicy thing and that basically rendered it inedible for the rest of us. Mum got the same sort of pancake thing with onion, mushroom and squash flower. It was unbelievably tasty. I loved it. We also bought these weird donut sticks that were pretty interesting to eat, tasty and all that jazz but we didn’t really want seconds of it. Tamika bought Fanta in a glass bottle but didn’t keep the bottle cause that’s just not how it works over there. We were really lucky when ordering food cause some American guy took pity on our inability to speak Spanish so he helped us out and we were able to get what we wanted. We wandered around the main streets of Tijuana. Revolution Ave was CRAZY!! There are shops on one side of the footpath and then there’s market stalls on the other side footpath. It was Dad’s idea of a nightmare. He doesn’t even go to markets back home and here he was stuck with Mum, Tamika and I wandering through market stalls with people yelling at us in a strange language. I would take the hippie markets in Aus at anytime. But I do enjoy the ability to bargain and feel as though you’re getting it cheap. The roads and driving is like any other third world country. For those of you who have visited places like Thailand, Cambodia, possibly Africa anywhere that isn’t well developed then you know what I’m talking about. I like to quote Pirates of the Cari
bbean here – road rules “are more like guidelines” that they can follow if they want. And the horn is often not used as a way to tell a driver that they just cut you off. It’s a way to say “Look out, I’m coming up beside you”, or “Look, it’s a pedestrian” or “let me through” or “hey, how you going”, “would you like fries with that?”. They use the horns heaps. We have this awesome photo of us in Mexico. We have sombreros on, I’m sitting on a donkey painted to look like a zebra and there is something written on each hat. But I’ll let you figure that one out for yourself.That pretty much wraps that day up. We were totally exhausted and joined the queue back into the States. It took us over an hour of standing in a line before we got to customs. Mum got asked to empty a bag because she had a piece of fruit in it. It’s always Mum who gets in trouble because she’s so worried about everyone else. Well done Mum!!
Today (7th December) we drove to Las Vegas. It was a really long drive with some OK views. We went a little crazy at times and as soon as I can get internet up for an extended period of time I will post a video on youtube which displays the madness that Tamika experiences. It cracked us up. We also got a little bored while driving and started taking random photos. They are all pretty bad L. Cameron, if your reading this (which I doubt) I have bought you a supersized cup from Maccas. Can you believe that its cheaper to buy a supersized drink then it is to buy a small? 99c for a giant cup! Its HUGE!!! Check it out!
Everything here is HUGE! Crazy
Well we’re about to hit Las Vegas but first Mum and Dad are heading down to the lobby to get a hair dryer (Mum is cannot live without it and is constantly complaining about not having a hair straightener) and ask about what we should do.
I will blog on my return…
Saturday, December 6, 2008
4th, 5th and 6th December
So it’s Saturday night and we’re all pretty exhausted. Tamika is on the bed next to me and she’s totally lost it, laughing at EVERYTHING!! The blog I posted last night didn’t work so lets start again.
The first two days we were here we hit Universal Studios (4th and 5th December). There were no lines so we totally rocked the joint. The first ride we did was the House of Horrors and it totally scared the living daylights out of all of us. We didn’t realize it would be so scary. The rest of the rides were great as well… with the Simpsons ride definitely taking the cake. The joy of the ride without actually leaving the safety of a little cart. It was a fantastic time. We met a couple of characters, Marge and Homer, Spongebob, Scooby-Do, the Blues Brothers among others.
We found these incredibly large toffee apples, or as they call them over here, caramel apples. We took a photo of it and Tamika bought one, a cookies and cream one. It was crazy.
That night for dinner we ate tacos from Taco Bell. We all ate dinner and it cost the family $10! Talk about crazyily cheap.
After the 5th where we hit Universal Studios we headed to San Diego. They have massive freeways here. Like there’s 5-8 lanes going each way. Massive. And you know what sucks? It’s bumper to bumper when there’s traffic. Imagine 6 lanes, both ways, with bumper to bumper traffic.
We’re so glad we brought the GPS as well. Otherwise we would already be totally stressed and possibly dead after Dad killed us with frustration. Driving on the road is wacked out. Right side and all…Dad isn’t coping all that well.
Today (6th) we headed to Mexico for the day. Let me tell you it was CRAZY!! To get into to Mexico you merely have to walk across a bridge. We were then attacked by the locals trying to pull us into their stalls and sell us stuff at extremely exorbitant prices. BARGAINING for us. It was totally exhausting. You walk, they attack; you sit, they attack; you buy, they attack; you walk away, they attack, you say no, they STILL attack. It’s totally crazy. We got some guy down from some ridiculous expensive price to something a little more affordable. People came from everywhere to try and get you into their shops. Madness with a capital M.
Getting back into the USA was ridiculous. We had to wait in this line for an entire hour! Stupid. But we got back so no being stuck in Mexico for us J
Well that’s about it from me for now…exhausted and about to hit the sack while watching High School Musical 1 with these funky subtitles which provide totally useless information. It’s great!!
Tomorrow we head to Las Vegas where we are totally going to gamble away everything we own. JOKES!!
The first two days we were here we hit Universal Studios (4th and 5th December). There were no lines so we totally rocked the joint. The first ride we did was the House of Horrors and it totally scared the living daylights out of all of us. We didn’t realize it would be so scary. The rest of the rides were great as well… with the Simpsons ride definitely taking the cake. The joy of the ride without actually leaving the safety of a little cart. It was a fantastic time. We met a couple of characters, Marge and Homer, Spongebob, Scooby-Do, the Blues Brothers among others.
We found these incredibly large toffee apples, or as they call them over here, caramel apples. We took a photo of it and Tamika bought one, a cookies and cream one. It was crazy.
That night for dinner we ate tacos from Taco Bell. We all ate dinner and it cost the family $10! Talk about crazyily cheap.
After the 5th where we hit Universal Studios we headed to San Diego. They have massive freeways here. Like there’s 5-8 lanes going each way. Massive. And you know what sucks? It’s bumper to bumper when there’s traffic. Imagine 6 lanes, both ways, with bumper to bumper traffic.
We’re so glad we brought the GPS as well. Otherwise we would already be totally stressed and possibly dead after Dad killed us with frustration. Driving on the road is wacked out. Right side and all…Dad isn’t coping all that well.
Today (6th) we headed to Mexico for the day. Let me tell you it was CRAZY!! To get into to Mexico you merely have to walk across a bridge. We were then attacked by the locals trying to pull us into their stalls and sell us stuff at extremely exorbitant prices. BARGAINING for us. It was totally exhausting. You walk, they attack; you sit, they attack; you buy, they attack; you walk away, they attack, you say no, they STILL attack. It’s totally crazy. We got some guy down from some ridiculous expensive price to something a little more affordable. People came from everywhere to try and get you into their shops. Madness with a capital M.
Getting back into the USA was ridiculous. We had to wait in this line for an entire hour! Stupid. But we got back so no being stuck in Mexico for us J
Well that’s about it from me for now…exhausted and about to hit the sack while watching High School Musical 1 with these funky subtitles which provide totally useless information. It’s great!!
Tomorrow we head to Las Vegas where we are totally going to gamble away everything we own. JOKES!!
So it’s Saturday night and we’re all pretty exhausted. Tamika is on the bed next to me and she’s totally lost it, laughing at EVERYTHING!! The blog I posted last night didn’t work so lets start again.
The first two days we were here we hit Universal Studios (4th and 5th December). There were no lines so we totally rocked the joint. The first ride we did was the House of Horrors and it totally scared the living daylights out of all of us. We didn’t realize it would be so scary. The rest of the rides were great as well… with the Simpsons ride definitely taking the cake. The joy of the ride without actually leaving the safety of a little cart. It was a fantastic time. We met a couple of characters, Marge and Homer, Spongebob, Scooby-Do, the Blues Brothers among others.
We found these incredibly large toffee apples, or as they call them over here, caramel apples. We took a photo of it and Tamika bought one, a cookies and cream one. It was crazy.
That night for dinner we ate tacos from Taco Bell. We all ate dinner and it cost the family $10! Talk about crazyily cheap.
After the 5th where we hit Universal Studios we headed to San Diego. They have massive freeways here. Like there’s 5-8 lanes going each way. Massive. And you know what sucks? It’s bumper to bumper when there’s traffic. Imagine 6 lanes, both ways, with bumper to bumper traffic.
We’re so glad we brought the GPS as well. Otherwise we would already be totally stressed and possibly dead after Dad killed us with frustration. Driving on the road is wacked out. Right side and all…Dad isn’t coping all that well.
Today (6th) we headed to Mexico for the day. Let me tell you it was CRAZY!! To get into to Mexico you merely have to walk across a bridge. We were then attacked by the locals trying to pull us into their stalls and sell us stuff at extremely exorbitant prices. BARGAINING for us. It was totally exhausting. You walk, they attack; you sit, they attack; you buy, they attack; you walk away, they attack, you say no, they STILL attack. It’s totally crazy. We got some guy down from some ridiculous expensive price to something a little more affordable. People came from everywhere to try and get you into their shops. Madness with a capital M.
Getting back into the USA was ridiculous. We had to wait in this line for an entire hour! Stupid. But we got back so no being stuck in Mexico for us J
Well that’s about it from me for now…exhausted and about to hit the sack while watching High School Musical 1 with these funky subtitles which provide totally useless information. It’s great!!
Tomorrow we head to Las Vegas where we are totally going to gamble away everything we own. JOKES!!
The first two days we were here we hit Universal Studios (4th and 5th December). There were no lines so we totally rocked the joint. The first ride we did was the House of Horrors and it totally scared the living daylights out of all of us. We didn’t realize it would be so scary. The rest of the rides were great as well… with the Simpsons ride definitely taking the cake. The joy of the ride without actually leaving the safety of a little cart. It was a fantastic time. We met a couple of characters, Marge and Homer, Spongebob, Scooby-Do, the Blues Brothers among others.
We found these incredibly large toffee apples, or as they call them over here, caramel apples. We took a photo of it and Tamika bought one, a cookies and cream one. It was crazy.
That night for dinner we ate tacos from Taco Bell. We all ate dinner and it cost the family $10! Talk about crazyily cheap.
After the 5th where we hit Universal Studios we headed to San Diego. They have massive freeways here. Like there’s 5-8 lanes going each way. Massive. And you know what sucks? It’s bumper to bumper when there’s traffic. Imagine 6 lanes, both ways, with bumper to bumper traffic.
We’re so glad we brought the GPS as well. Otherwise we would already be totally stressed and possibly dead after Dad killed us with frustration. Driving on the road is wacked out. Right side and all…Dad isn’t coping all that well.
Today (6th) we headed to Mexico for the day. Let me tell you it was CRAZY!! To get into to Mexico you merely have to walk across a bridge. We were then attacked by the locals trying to pull us into their stalls and sell us stuff at extremely exorbitant prices. BARGAINING for us. It was totally exhausting. You walk, they attack; you sit, they attack; you buy, they attack; you walk away, they attack, you say no, they STILL attack. It’s totally crazy. We got some guy down from some ridiculous expensive price to something a little more affordable. People came from everywhere to try and get you into their shops. Madness with a capital M.
Getting back into the USA was ridiculous. We had to wait in this line for an entire hour! Stupid. But we got back so no being stuck in Mexico for us J
Well that’s about it from me for now…exhausted and about to hit the sack while watching High School Musical 1 with these funky subtitles which provide totally useless information. It’s great!!
Tomorrow we head to Las Vegas where we are totally going to gamble away everything we own. JOKES!!
Friday, December 5, 2008
next couple of days...
So...we did Universal Studios and let me tell you the Horror show scared the living daylights out of all of us. It was the first thing we did and it totally woke us up for the rest of the day. We hit the rides and there were no lines so we totally rocked the joint.
We've decided to compile a retarded list of all the stuff we think is retarded over here...
RETARDED....
driving (right side, totally freaks you out!)
huge cars (massive man)
toilets (crappy flushing system and low to the ground and you sit low to the water)
shower taps (one tap for bath and shower and you have to push in a stupid little pin to use the shower)
cheese (in a can and yellow)
bread (sweet)
public toilet walls and doors (big gaps u can see through and high off the ground)
light switches (its up for on, down for off)
powerpoints (not only are they different but they dnt have an off or on switch)
tipping system (when do u tip and wat for?)
tax not included in price (so everything is actually about $1 more expensive or more...tax is added at the cashier)
blinkers on cars (they arent all orange - sometimes the blinker is actually the brake light)
measurements (pounds, fanerheit, miles etc.)
money (its all green, they still have 1c peices and the whole quarter, dime, penny and nickel business)
oil rigs in the middle of the city
pedestrian crossings (?where are they?? apparnetly pedestrians have right of way all the time)
stop signs on both streets (who goes first? do we give way? soo many questions...)
well thats about it for now.
P.s. The Simpsons ride is AWSOME!!!
We've decided to compile a retarded list of all the stuff we think is retarded over here...
RETARDED....
driving (right side, totally freaks you out!)
huge cars (massive man)
toilets (crappy flushing system and low to the ground and you sit low to the water)
shower taps (one tap for bath and shower and you have to push in a stupid little pin to use the shower)
cheese (in a can and yellow)
bread (sweet)
public toilet walls and doors (big gaps u can see through and high off the ground)
light switches (its up for on, down for off)
powerpoints (not only are they different but they dnt have an off or on switch)
tipping system (when do u tip and wat for?)
tax not included in price (so everything is actually about $1 more expensive or more...tax is added at the cashier)
blinkers on cars (they arent all orange - sometimes the blinker is actually the brake light)
measurements (pounds, fanerheit, miles etc.)
money (its all green, they still have 1c peices and the whole quarter, dime, penny and nickel business)
oil rigs in the middle of the city
pedestrian crossings (?where are they?? apparnetly pedestrians have right of way all the time)
stop signs on both streets (who goes first? do we give way? soo many questions...)
well thats about it for now.
P.s. The Simpsons ride is AWSOME!!!
Thursday, December 4, 2008
WE HAVE ARRIVED!!!
The plane didn't crash, we weren't hijacked and we all survived the trip (barely!). After spending waaay to much time in a plane we landed at LAX (Los Angeles International Airport) at 8ish am (American time) on the 4th of December. Thats right guys...we get to relive the past 24 hrs...trippy as. We arrived at about 3:30am Aus time.
The flight over was relatively painless. Mum had her vegemite confiscated at Sydney because apparently its a liquid but its ok cause we snuck a tube of it through. After getting through security we waited for the plane and I realised that I had alot of liquids that I hadnt declared (an assortment of makeup items) so we found a flaw in the system.
The first half of the plane trip was great. The plane was pretty empty so we had a couple of seats each and we got to sleep in a relatively comfortable way (as comfy as you can be in economy with a tiny pillow, blanket, and a sister who wants to lay all over you). We arrived in Tahiti for our plane change at let me tell you how glad we were that we were only there for 40 minutes. It was hot and humid and it was 11pm! And, on top of that, the airport was not a smoke free zone! They all spoke French and i realised i probably should of paid more attention in primary school when nlearning French.
The flight for Tahiti to America was alot fuller so we couldnt have extra seats. We watched a movie and then tried really really hard to sleep. We succeeded at times but mostly we failed and got sore necks.
We arrived in America (YAY!! no more planes for a week or so) and they took our fingerprints and a photo of our eye. Aus doesnt even have my fingerprints but now America does so no crime for me. The immigration card we had to fill out made me laugh. It asked us if we were planning on doing anything illegal or planning on participating in immoral activities. It also asked us if we have ever or are planning on participating in terroroist activities or were in anyway invloved with the Nazi's between 1935 and 1945. Because, you know, if I was I'm stupid enough to tick the YES box. Idiots. I guess cause they ain't that bright they just assume that everyone else is a little stupid as well.
We got through customs, no hassle. They didn't ask to check our bags or anything, we just walked right through and then waited for our shuttle bus. And that pretty much brings you up to speed. We're sitting in the hotel room having showers while Dad picks up the car and we're about to hit Universal Studios. It's now my time for the shower!
The flight over was relatively painless. Mum had her vegemite confiscated at Sydney because apparently its a liquid but its ok cause we snuck a tube of it through. After getting through security we waited for the plane and I realised that I had alot of liquids that I hadnt declared (an assortment of makeup items) so we found a flaw in the system.
The first half of the plane trip was great. The plane was pretty empty so we had a couple of seats each and we got to sleep in a relatively comfortable way (as comfy as you can be in economy with a tiny pillow, blanket, and a sister who wants to lay all over you). We arrived in Tahiti for our plane change at let me tell you how glad we were that we were only there for 40 minutes. It was hot and humid and it was 11pm! And, on top of that, the airport was not a smoke free zone! They all spoke French and i realised i probably should of paid more attention in primary school when nlearning French.
The flight for Tahiti to America was alot fuller so we couldnt have extra seats. We watched a movie and then tried really really hard to sleep. We succeeded at times but mostly we failed and got sore necks.
We arrived in America (YAY!! no more planes for a week or so) and they took our fingerprints and a photo of our eye. Aus doesnt even have my fingerprints but now America does so no crime for me. The immigration card we had to fill out made me laugh. It asked us if we were planning on doing anything illegal or planning on participating in immoral activities. It also asked us if we have ever or are planning on participating in terroroist activities or were in anyway invloved with the Nazi's between 1935 and 1945. Because, you know, if I was I'm stupid enough to tick the YES box. Idiots. I guess cause they ain't that bright they just assume that everyone else is a little stupid as well.
We got through customs, no hassle. They didn't ask to check our bags or anything, we just walked right through and then waited for our shuttle bus. And that pretty much brings you up to speed. We're sitting in the hotel room having showers while Dad picks up the car and we're about to hit Universal Studios. It's now my time for the shower!
Monday, November 24, 2008
So...my luggage arrived last night and let me just say this...the bag is HUGE!!! Mum reckons me and Tamika should share it for the trip over. So not only will me and my sister be sharing a bed almost the entire time we are over there, we'll be sharing a bag and it will only take a moment before we are sharing clothes, friends, pillows, ipods, computers, thoughts, food and before you know it Mum and Dad will have moved us into the same room.
We'll be sharing rooms the entire time we're over there as well...like not just a bed with my sister but a room with the whole family. Let me tell you that it is not as much fun as it sounds...my Dad snores, my sister kicks and my Mum...well im sure in the 6 weeks we will be together that i will find something. I've decided that to counteract the problem I will be falling asleep to my ipod and i will be taking my hiking mat, just in case
As negative as i may sound, I'm actually looking forward to the trip. 6 weeks in another country, no working, hanging out with people I love and having a white christmas for the first time EVER! not to mention the Grand Canyon, skiing (or snowboarding), helicopter rides, themeparks, eating heaps, freezing weather, friends, family, christmas, new years...just to name a few. Cannot wait to hit the casinos (with the parents of course). Seeing as I'm not legal (retarded) I will be hanging with them. What is with this stupid 21 yrs thing anyway? If I'm legal in Australia then surely thats good enough for them. Apparently not but oh well. We're gonna try and pass Tamika off for an 18 yr old (she's tall enough and is often mistaken for my older sister so we may have a chance!). I'm sure we'll succeed at some point.
We'll be sharing rooms the entire time we're over there as well...like not just a bed with my sister but a room with the whole family. Let me tell you that it is not as much fun as it sounds...my Dad snores, my sister kicks and my Mum...well im sure in the 6 weeks we will be together that i will find something. I've decided that to counteract the problem I will be falling asleep to my ipod and i will be taking my hiking mat, just in case
As negative as i may sound, I'm actually looking forward to the trip. 6 weeks in another country, no working, hanging out with people I love and having a white christmas for the first time EVER! not to mention the Grand Canyon, skiing (or snowboarding), helicopter rides, themeparks, eating heaps, freezing weather, friends, family, christmas, new years...just to name a few. Cannot wait to hit the casinos (with the parents of course). Seeing as I'm not legal (retarded) I will be hanging with them. What is with this stupid 21 yrs thing anyway? If I'm legal in Australia then surely thats good enough for them. Apparently not but oh well. We're gonna try and pass Tamika off for an 18 yr old (she's tall enough and is often mistaken for my older sister so we may have a chance!). I'm sure we'll succeed at some point.
Saturday, November 22, 2008
A week and a half out...
The franticness has begun as we do last minute bookings and check the weather out in the places we're going. It's gonna be freezing but we cannot wait.
We're doing all that shopping we've been going to do for weeks, buying clothes that we just cannot leave Oz without (like thermals, undies, luggage etc.), doing jobs such as the mowing (which is kinda hard when it wont stop raining), cleaning (oh so much cleaning) and eating (we have to get rid of all that food thats been sitting in our cupboards). The excitement is beginning to build as the trip begins to fall into place and stuff is getting booked.
The house is all ashambles and my room is a mess as I pull out all the warm clothes that have been put away till next winter.
Time to go...my moment of quietness has ended as my parents call me to continue with the huge joblist
Next time: a brief rundown of who, what, when and how
We're doing all that shopping we've been going to do for weeks, buying clothes that we just cannot leave Oz without (like thermals, undies, luggage etc.), doing jobs such as the mowing (which is kinda hard when it wont stop raining), cleaning (oh so much cleaning) and eating (we have to get rid of all that food thats been sitting in our cupboards). The excitement is beginning to build as the trip begins to fall into place and stuff is getting booked.
The house is all ashambles and my room is a mess as I pull out all the warm clothes that have been put away till next winter.
Time to go...my moment of quietness has ended as my parents call me to continue with the huge joblist
Next time: a brief rundown of who, what, when and how
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