Hi everyone. Once again, apologies for this one taking a while to be put up online. We are infact home now, but we ran out of time to put up this blog and the LA one while we were in the States. My impressions of Illinois was once again, completely different to any of the other places we had vistied so far. Chicago is huge, I have never seen buildings so tall (more about Chicago later). We had a three hour drive from Ohare airport to Goodfield where we stayed with Sandy and Denny (Jahan's host parents from when he lived [View Full Entry]

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Hi everyone, the Quebec City blog is now up, for some stragne reason it didn't send out an email, so i'm putting this one up to let you all know it's the entry before this one (click 'previous journal' at the top of the page). On our way to LA tomorrow, will put up the Goodfield one from LA. :) [View Full Entry]

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Hi everyone, sorry this has been a long time coming. As I mentioned, we have been in and out of internet contact for the past couple of weeks, and it takes quite a long time to load all of the photos up here. So, we arrived in Quebec City and started the morning with breakfast with our friends Pat and Clo. They both speak French as their first language, but speak English reasonably well. (By the end of the week, we had picked up a few French words and phrases) We spent the first afternoon walking around the old City. It [View Full Entry]

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So, we came to Edmonton a day early, and what a great decision that was! After having a small sleep in, doing some washing at getting organised, we made our way to West Edmonton Mall (the world's largest shopping mall). Getting there was raher interesting, the city streets are laid out in a grid system, but there is a large river going through the city, and only two bridges over it, so it can be rather tricky to navigate around. Especially with all the one way streets and highways. Eventually, we made it. We arrived and it didn't really look that [View Full Entry]

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Hi everyone! Sorry, it's been a while coming for this blog, but we have had some issues with internet access, we have had acess, but it's been so slow, it's almost impossible to upload the photos and videos. Anyway, here it is: There are 48 photos on this one and 10 (very short) videos. You will probably have to click over to the next page to view all the photos. On the 14th of October we started our holiday. We picked up the rental car (which we have named 'Fanta'). It's really nice; a 4 door automatic Pontiac, with enough room [View Full Entry]

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So the boys decided to take a trip to see dinosaur country last Wednesday. We got two mini vans and headed out to drumheller. To get there we went about 1.5 hours north east of Calgary. Here we went to the biggest museum with dinosaurs, this was by far the coolest museum I have been to and is one of the best 5 museums in the world. Hope you enjoy the photos there is not much you can talk about but lots to just look at. We then visited the world’s smallest church that sits 6, man its tiny! We then [View Full Entry]

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Hi everyone, well, by now you have all probably heard that we were in the finals today, and we came 9th in the WORLD!!! We are all so proud of our acheivements, and we had a big party tonight to celebrate. Just to let you know, we would have come 7th, there were only 5 points difference (out of 3480 available) between 9th and 7th place, unfortuently, we we given a 25 point penalty because in one of our songs, we had a lady wearing a crown. She was not actually allowed to wear it on stage, as the people who [View Full Entry]

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Hi everyone, this is just a quick note to say....WE ARE IN THE FINALS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We had the most exciting day, sang our little hearts out and all the boys cheered us on. We have been randomly drawn as number 8 on stage, so for all those who can, you need to log on tot the same website as before: http://www.sweetadelineintl.org/webcast.cfm and we will be on stage at 10:10am on Sunday morning (14th) NZ time. Thanks so much for all your support, we are so happy we could do this for NZ!! We are the first ever chorus from the Southern Hemishphere [View Full Entry]

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As the title says, it has been quite a stampede the last few days, so much has been happening, it's difficult to rememer what we have excatly been doing! (this is going to be a long one!) As I left off, we arrived in Calgary at an un-godly hour of the morning Last Saturday, The hotel is fantastic! we are really enjoying staying here and would do again without any hesitations. We have a large room on the 9th floor (23 floors in total, which is small for Calgary) a lovely ensuite and nice view. The hotel is nice and quiet, [View Full Entry]

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The trip begins... We have spent the last 2 days in San Francisco. Arrived on the 4th after a 12 hour flight. I managed to sleep for 5 hours, Jahan, not so much. The afternoon we arrived was a bit of a blur, we were pretty tired from the trip so slept until dinner time. We stayed at the Mosser Hotel, it was clean, but that was about all it had going for it. We spent the evening wandering around Downtown, trying to find somewhere for dinner. We found a little curry place which had curries for US$5.99 each, finding our [View Full Entry]

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