Hello from the Nations Capital still. On friday we caught the metro (subway) down to the Pentagon, Changed lines to get there, thought we were pretty good teaching the kids how to read the underground map and actually getting on the right train going the right direction. There's not much to look at from the outside and of course your'e not allowed on the inside. We did walk around to the memorial, for the people who died from the 9/11 terrorist attack, that flew the plane into the Pentagon. Its quite a cool memorial. 153 people died, 59 were on the plane. We had to use the 'bathroom' while we were there, so there's a portacom toilet there. Typical government department.I opened the door to be met by nice cool air conditioned air coming out. Once ... read more

Thursday , We got up a bit late after the awesome laser show. Drove to a train station ( Marta) not far from here. Caught that into the middle of Atlanta. We always seem to attract real winners. This time his name was Dexter, a black guy. Who told us what stop to get off , then yaked all the way into town , telling us about his life history. He is doing time in jail , 2 days a week for 6 months. His "Woman" has got 1 of his children , his "Girl" has got 3 of his kids !! Got in with the wrong crowd selling drugs , I think. Anyway, he walked us thru the CNN building and over to the Coca Cola building as he had nothing better to do today. ... read more

Hi Guys It's Tori!!! On Monday morning we took our new bikes out to Tybee Island Beach. We went for a bike ride along the streets, then we went for a swim in the sea. About 20 metres away from where we were swimming there was a cone barrier, on the other side was Miley Cyrus and extras, they were filming a scene for a movie coming out sometime next year called 'The Last Song'. Where we were swimming in the sea there were loads of starfish, It was amazing! This guy gave mum and I one, because we were interested. Dad and Josh were really scared of them! Those big Woosies. Lol. On Tuesday we got up early and went to the Civil Rights Museum, it's all about the segregation between the black and white ... read more

Hi all Josh here. These first 3 weeks have gone quick for me and so will the rest of the trip. To recap what ive seen. first was the plane trip, it was so fun and exciting NOT!!! it was so boring. the only good one was Auckland to LA becuse it had the tv in the back of the seats. The stink thing was i was so tired i fell asleep for half of it. Next we meet Uncle Evan who is in North Carolina. Evan lives with his new wife Bobby (Wifey as he calls her). Bobby has 3 daughters, Amanda 19, Renae 15 and Maria 10. They are all really nice. While at Evans we went out on the boat. On the boat i went for a ski a kneeboard and a buiscut. ... read more

On Sunday, Evan finally got the boat going. He had been to a different boat shop about an hour away from his place.To get some parts he needed, They also had knee boards on special , so he bought one of those too. Sure enough it went good as gold, I took Evan for a ski, then we tried out the kneeboard.awesome. Josh and I had a ski , then Evan blew up the ski biscuit thing. Everyone had a bit of fun on that, as its so stable to lie on. We ran out of gas so we pulled into one of the many marina's along the lake. We just pulled into a wharf, this guy asked do you want some gas, he fills it up, we went and got some ice creams from the ... read more