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May 18th 2006
it is official, we are on american soil once again. we landed yesterday after getting in our fill of almost 7 hours of movies thanks to the comforts and conveniences provided by united. steve and bonnie, tone's parents, picked us up and treated us to exactly what we needed - a truly american experience at the rainforest cafe. we felt almost miniature as we crawled into one of those crescent-shaped booths and seemingly gigantic glasses that they more then willingly refill! stuffed by the american portions we came back to the house to be reunited with our pups that are significantly smaller then we remembered and then ventured to try to stay awake as long as possible. i only lasted until 9 which i believe was around 3 or 4 in the morning our time. it's ... read more
May 16th 2006
Me and my friend Doug are off to another Pearl Jam concert. This will be my 11 time seeing them I think. We left around 1:20:07am----Destination: United Center. It is a long but well worth it drive to see the best live band(IMO). I was not very bright the night before because I got like zero sleep. This meant that I was up a very long time and all of my days were so screwed up after the show. Okay back to the ride: It sucked. We got lost a little in St. Louis, but I think we gained time. We made it up to Naperville, IL. His aunt lives there and she was so kind. She made us breakfast and opened her house up like it was our own. Doug decided to take a little ... read more
May 13th 2006
We got to Chicago after a non-eventful train journey (thank God). We arrived at the hostel, a bit out of town but there's 24 hour metro so was great, and promptly got chucked out! Only for a couple of hours though, lock out hostels suck, but they do make you get out of bed even with the most serverest hangover (poor Trev!). We went into the city the next day, heading for the Library for free internet. Chicago is the city in the States we,ve been to so far that looks and feels like home. The architecture is very european and feels like theres a lot of history around. The Library building was beautiful itself, it was a shame that when we used the computers we all slowly noticed that over half of the people there ... read more
Chicago Sidetrip & the Washington DC Experiment +67
Published: May 14th 2006North America » United States » Illinois » Chicago
May 9th 2006
Welcome back, seems like I only did a journal a few days ago and that's true only because I had one sitting online without publication for 3 days, took me awhile to find a place to upload photo's and I don't like submitting half finished journals online without photo's but the most important part is text and the joyous stories so Im here now to get the 6 day section between arriving in Chicago and arriving in New York City off my chest. NYC is exciting enough to do an entire journal on exclusively (as you could probably guess because well... it is New York City) I'll get onto that hopefully this coming week. Depending on how gracious the net-cafe fairies are. Ive been blessed here in NYC, $5us for 4 hours continuous... but with no ... read more
May 6th 2006
Chicaaaagggoooo… Chicago was a long 12 hours from Toronto on the bus via Detroit ( I didn’t see eminem) and involved another delightful stop at customs, this time it was the Americans asking the questions. It took Fran ages to get through, they read loads of her journal, probably thought she looked dodgy..! Only joking. Anyway, arrived in Chicago late as usual but got checked in ok. Very expensive for a hostel, but we both had nice rooms, very spacious with an attached bathroom-which is handy for midnight loo runs! First thing on the agenda, as always it seems with large US cities, is to go up something large and we chose the Sears Tower over the Hancock Observatory because it was taller! Fantastic views of the city and the surrounding suburbs at the top of ... read more
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April 30th 2006
The trip back into America was interesting. At customs everyone on the coach has to disembark and take their luggage through. The customs officer that I went to was quite nosy! She was even reading my journal and cards from friends that I have brought with me! At least she was doing her job well, but it did mean that most of the coach, bar two people, had to wait for me. The funniest part was when she was quizzing me concerning marriage to Thommo! She wanted to know if and when we were planning to get married and would it be in the States, she said it is quite common for foreigners to do so. When we arrived at our hostel, which was quite late, we just went to bed. Getting used to tip toeing ... read more
April 30th 2006
So National Honor Society Decided to send some of us to Chicago. It was Michelle, Sierra, Meghan, and Me along with Mr. Ellison and Mrs. Gabrielle. Outside of the conference we went to it was a blas. haha The conference was just ice breakers, not that great. We basically ran around the city the whole time seeing everything we could and getting little info clips from mr. ellison. On the way home, our flight was delayed and were the last flight allowed out because of weather. A little unsettleing, but we could see the lightening in the clouds around us as we were taking off, it was amazing. ... read more
Take me out to the ballgame...
Published: May 19th 2006North America » United States » Illinois » Chicago
April 28th 2006
Usually when it rains, the steady and melodic sound of raindrops hitting the roof and windows and the occasional rumblings of thunder in the distant help me to sleep well through the night but not this night. When you have plans to go to a Cubs baseball game the next day, hearing rain while you're sleeping is not a good thing. Needless to say, we woke up to a damp and dreary Sunday morning in Huntington, Indiana, but we faithful Cubs fans were not deterred. We began our three and a half our journey to Wrigley Field despite the rainy weather and 100% chance of rain forecast for Chicago. Our only glimmer of hope in seeing the Cubs game rested in the radar which showed the rain potentially ending in Chicago around game time. But as ... read more
Easter Fun in the Windy City
Published: April 30th 2006North America » United States » Illinois » Chicago
April 27th 2006
Hey Everyone! We headed to Chicago for a long weekend over Easter with Tara, Daniel and Rock. Daniel is playing for a Rugby club there for a few months so gave us a good excuse to get to the States for a quick trip. Chicago is a great City and we even got sunny weather which was a welcome treat after nearly a year in Dublin! We got to see the Chicago Bulls, the White Sox and the the Black Hawks which was great, they all won too! We spent one day out in the suburbs watching Dans rugby, they had a great win and we got through a few boxes of beer in the sun during the afternoon. I did manage to get a bit of shopping in amongst all the sporting events thank goodness, ... read more
April 26th 2006
Flight AA37 American Airlines takes off a little late toward south over Glattbrugg (or as we used to say in a literal translation -- Slippery Bridge). Familiar with the airport and the departing routes of all the aircrafts in the area I know that it will make a left turn shortly after. Well, I do not expect to see my mother's house on the other side of the forest, the house I spent most of my childhood by the way, because the turn will be made too early for that. But I was hoping to have a view at my last residence in Kloten, though. Now guess what? Because it's cloudy this morning just seconds after the start we are flowing into the first tattered shreds of low clouds. That's exactly the point why I want ... read more
