SO IT MIGHT LOOK LIKE I'M BAD WITH KEEPING PEOPLE UP TO DATE ON THINGS WHEN REALLY I am... but it's not as bad as you think.
So it's been just over 2 weeks away and I feel kinda awful I haven't told any fascinating tales of fascinating things. And although I haven't been doing toooo much of anything exciting enough to tell you about I'll try my best. Throughout the weeks I've been writing notes here and there on Notepad (seeing as WN decided it didn't like drafts and would prefer to lose the whole thing) so lets see what we have.
So what's first? I suppose any of this airport/flying stuff is kind of hit or miss. I found it interesting because it was the first experience (of many I assume) I was to have of this whole flying business. A few highlights I guess! Aside from not sleeping any of the 11 hours of the first flight (how, I have no idea) I found the last few hours amazing to see. While it was still dark, the stars seemed at eye level. I even saw a star fall and burn at it's brightest right before it disintegrated into nothing. Flying into the sun on the horizon was amazing! Especially as below us the pacific ocean was covered in clouds as well. It was almost like I'd imagine flying over Antarctica would be, it was so textured, almost like icebergs and mountains of clouds.The only other neat thing to mention out of my adventures surrounding planes and airports was landing in Dallas Airport. That place is huge! So big it has it's own train system running outside to transport people to all the different terminals. Was completely unmanned too so that was bonus. Everything else was your usual customs lines, airport stuff. Didn't lose anything so yay!
It's been really hot here lately, though last night we had a lightning storm (Actually had another since, was quite impressive). Earlier last week Joey took me to the botanical gardens and I was practically sweating buckets. The gardens were nice, not so many flowers out (most looked like they were dying of thirst) but it had foresty walkways, water features and a giant Koi pond! Well, it was more of a lake with bridges over it.. it was mad, there were so many koi, huge ones too, they went crazy when we started feeding them. KOI BATTLE! Also, with all the squirrels and chipmunks around, I got to make use of the giant lens on my camera! National Geographic imo.(Pics below)
Haven't done much else. Went to The Pink Palace Museum, is a museum with an imax and planetarium attached, though when we got there both extras were closed. Mainly due to us getting lost downtown and driving around in circles for about an hour, which was fun... *cough* heh. Got to see some Ghetto and a bit of the city too at least. The architecture is different out here. Not many tall buildings, if at all. Most of the buildings look like nice big brick houses. Even the apartment I'm staying at, on the outside it looks like a nice 2 story house (amongst more of the same houses), but it separates into 3 apartments I think. The mall is a big outside area with similar buildings, the bigger ones reaching no higher than 2 levels.
But back to the museum! It was fun, had all the usual dinosaurs and fossils and lots of local history as well as all the old tools dentists used etc (ouch!) Even had a display of soldiers amputating a foot that had gangrene with what looked like kitchen knife (not even serrated!) and no drugs? EEP.
Was a neat mini circus, hand crafted by this dude, it was amazing. I think the display said it was about 6,000 hours of work put into it, which I think roughly translates to 3 years full time? Crazy.
So aside from the above, I've pretty much just been hanging out waiting for Bonnaroo (which, unfortunately, since Joey had to work I missed a bit of, but from what I did get it was good! There were sooo many people, the camp site was bigger than the stage areas I think, or at least it seemed to be, maneuvering around the tents was difficult).
It's kinda like being at home almost, except apparently asking if there's an electric kettle in the house is a foreign thing and results in: "wtf would we need an appliance to specifically boil water?" Sigh. So the last few times I felt like hot tea (apparently that's foreign too since they have "sweet tea" which is pretty much just iced tea with sugar) I've had to boil water in a pot on the stove for it... what? Sigh.
Oh, there's this fast food place called Sonic over here, and I can't believe I'm going to talk about it, but it's kinda fun (also, I'm glad there's a Wendy's here, whew.). So anyway, this place is kinda neat, it's like in old American films where you drive up and park next to an ordering box, and people deliver your order to you on roller skates. It's the usual fast food type things, but they're well known for their drink selection. They have all the usual soft drinks/sodas on offer, but you can add any kind of flavours you want from a selection of like, 20 (they also have fruit slushys etc). The other night I had a coconut, pineapple sprite, and it was great! But yeah, you pretty much order and eat from your car. Apparently it's quite popular in the summer since it can get pretty hot out here and many don't like leaving the comfort of their air-conditioned cars... Lazy Americans... heh.
But yes.
Has not been overly exciting, but it's been cool just hanging out a bit. Am in the middle of organising myself for New Orleans so I should hopefully be there in the next little while, probably by the beginning of next week.
I'm really sorry about being super terrible at this whole thing, but I promise I'll get better at it!
Hope everything's going well at home,
Loves and Hearts!
Edit: So I have to work on this photo thing too, it hasn't turned out very well, sorry that it looks so awkward!
