November 15th, 2003

Posted on 15th @ 12:08am American time.

Just back from going to the cinema. We drove for about 10-15mins to get there, its right next door to the ‘super mall’ which is also known in this household as the ‘stupid mall’

The place was HUGE!, 17 cinemas in the one building!. Cost $7 US to get in, kinda funny cause it costs $7 australian to get into the cinema in Rockhampton. Ya gotta walk up and talk to the glass though, seems every person that is serving anything over here is behind a big sheet of glass and they either have small holes so you can hear or a microphone. *shrugs* Beats getting shot though i spose.. *not that happens over here mum – im perfectly safe – no need to worry*

Walked around the mall before we went to the movies, found a shop called “nothing over $1″ which is basically jsut your typical crazy clarks in australia. Anyhow – bought 4 postcards for $1, that ended up costing $1.08 cause they add tax on after the marked price. So i guess the shop should really be called “nothing over $1 + tax”, $1 american is ok for 4 postcards though… right?

Earlier today, we went driving. Melanie has to get her fingerprints done for some american teacher thing *shrugs*, anyway, we went to this police station and stood in line behind two other people. The first chick was making a bit of a scene cause she wanted to see her sons police record, they told her that her son was 24 and therefore she could not see them. She went on to explain that her daughter works at the police station and had read his record and told her she had to go down and ask then about it *reading someones record that is not part of offical business is of cause illegal* She said she knoew about his drug use and alcohol use and his abuse but there was somthing worse. Apparently her husband had done a ciotizens arrest on their own son cause he was going nuts… woah…. anyway..
The next dude was nooking in his driving test or somthing like that – so that wasnt too eventful, the lady behind the counter knew him by first name though – so he msut of been a regular *shrugs* Only in America..

Now… melanie steps up, wanting to get her finger prints done.. and the nice lady behind the counter informs her that she has to make an appointment… yup make an appointment to get her fingerprints done – a 10min job max. *sigh* Wont be long and youll be lining up and making appointments to go to the toilet.

After that we went to frys, but i wrote about that in the previous entry. Things are a bit mixed up but ya get that.

Ok, time to go eat my ‘Tiger Tail’ which im informed is a twinkie with red raspberry stripes. Time to become a true american… *shrugs*

Posted on 14th @ 5:30ish in America

Ok, picture page has been updated.. go here

If you dont see the new pictrures – try refreshing the page.

Theres one of me and melanie that reinyn took at the thai place we went to eat. Then there is Melanie and Reinyn standing near Reinyns car – and yes Reinyn IS that tall and melanie IS that short.

The few after that are at a park type place we went for a walk. Melanie has her big black coat on cause although it looks sunny its actually pretty chilly. The last two at the moment are from Reinyns place and his kick arse home theature system. He has a big projector and its really sweet.

OK, thats it for the moment.

Posted 14th @ 4:44pm In America

Went to frys today. Its a HUGE electronics store. Its got everything a geek could ever want and more. Hardware, software, dvds, books etc etc etc. I could spend an eternity there thats for sure.

Melanie went to a few places and got some food she was craving for that she cant get in Australia. *shrugs*

I almost bought a 128mb memory stick for my new camera, but resisted the urge. Plus it wasnt that much cheaper. Ill hold out a bit.

Melanie is busy organising trips back to her old uni and stuff. I talked to my supervisor and he gave me some ideas on stuff to look up while im over here.

Its somewhat cloudy here today, sprinkled a bit but so far not that much rain. Its predicted to rain the next 4 days or so. Typical weather around here at this time im told.

I found a good FTP program to upload my pictures so stay tuned for more pictures sooner or later.

Posted on 14th @ 4:42pm in America

Took these the other day at the capitol building and some little lake thing we went. Its not that many pictures but im still sorting a few out.