July 2010
30 posts
charlie the lion/tiger.
Today we drove forever from Knoxville to New Port News to go to Busch Gardens with my cousins who live down here. It was awesome. All of us rode all of the rollercosters and lots of rides (well dad rode 3 of the 4 coster). the boys had fun and so did dad and i. we are staying the night at our cousins and tomorrow we shall visit a potential college for me and than home we go.
here are pictures...
fourth of july.
we were in Knoxville, Tennessee! not at cool as the Nashville one but in order to visit my cousins tomorrow we needed to be a little closer. we are going to have an EARLY morning. we need to leave the hotel by 7. i’m usually getting woken up around 8….
back to our night! this festival reminded me of the fireman’s carnival in Windsor Locks, without as many rides. but as dad...
missing elvis and i want my man.
today we are in memphis! we went to Graceland but there were crazy wait times and they were asking for like 70 bucks for a tour… no thank you! we are also useing our FREE MARRIOTT tonight. it may be the prettiest bathroom we will EVER see. we went down to the “strip” for dinner. thats a sight. lots and lots of crazy drunk people and some really good singer and some realllllly bad...
yet again... the last two days...
i got kinda distracted last night and than my computer died, so i didn’t post anything. last night we stayed in a double tree (yes, i got my gooie chocolate chip cookie) we were in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Dad and i went to the movies to see the new twilight movie. it was everything i ever wanted. He said it was predictable… tonight we are in a Days Inn (yes sarah was right about how...
pictures
i’ll finishing uploading the pictures tomorrow, i’v got so many more but the internet is taking FOREVER to upload them.
sorry =[!
sucky internet
so yesterday (my mommys birthday!) we were in LA. i don’t remember the 4 hour drive from vegas to LA, because yet again i was asleep (sorry dad…) in LA we walked around hollywood (after we finally found it (gsp’s suck)) and than ended up buying tickets onto a Stars Tour, which was awesome at the time but i recommend taking notes on who’s houses are who’s when you take...
June 2010
36 posts
vegas vegas vegas vegas!
today we were in vegas. we got here around 11. we drove around and saw all the chapels, checked into our hotel (and walked through a casino) brought our stuff upstairs and started our adventure of buying the stratosphere ride tickets! we got a coupon for a buy one get one free unlimited pass, so we did that. dad rode all three of the stratosphere rides once and the New York New York roller coster...
one day of adrenalin and one napping day.
sorry that i didn’t post yesterday! we are alive! and yesterday was the best day of our lives. white water rafting was SO much fun. i don’t even know how to tell you about it. i do wish that we had done a higher level, dad doesn’t share that wish. there is alot more prep than we were expecting. it took at least and hour and a half to get everyone ready suited up and taught the...
a sweet monument and a not so sweet one.
so yesterday we went to Mt. Rushmore and Crazy Horse. we took wayyyy to many pictures at Rushmore and Crazy Horse is not all its cracked out to be. At Rushmore we walked about a half a mile trail to see all these different angles (yes we took pictures at every single one) and at Crazy Horse we payed 20 bucks to get in and would have have to pay 20 more bucks to get on a bus that would take us...
