Cold Times.

omg! So this morning when it is time to walk the little Nems.. it was like... -1! (or well one website said -2 & another said -0.5.. so I went somewhere inbetween coz I figured that would be about right... ya know?) I know! Currently it has warmed up a little and is sitting at about 2! OOo so toasty yes? umm no. Luckily however I have a spunky new very warm winter jacket so I don't totally freeze my tush off and I think it is about time I crack out the thermals. The forcast says that it is going to snow tonight but I totally don't believe it.. I however would like to have a little snow coz it is so pretty.

Saturday is actually forcast to be cold-ER.. at -4 with a high of 0! I know.. how jealous are you right now? but yeah I dare say that will change between now and Saturday.. coz really weather forcasts are total poo.. and they don't even get it right when its real time lol.

Tomorrow is halloween.. so for halloween.. Nemo is going dress up as an m&m (not really) and go in to work with Emma and hopefully he will bring home loads of candy from all the Axis fans! haha or well I am just happy to have a morning to myself without the grumpy growly lad.. possibly a sleep in too.. we shall see how the morning plans out. He will just be a happy chappy coz he gets to ride on the train and will get loads of pats from his Axis fans.

Well that is about all I gots to say so I will leave it there and go and umm.. make a coffee

Dark Times.

Darker times are ahead.. indeedy doody they sure are.. daylight savings has ended and it is rather sad.. terribly sad.. it means that most of my walks will be done in darkness and if not total darkness then then onset of darkness. Gloomy as! It sure as heck doesn't make me want to go out walking.. but one does what one needs to do.. plus Nemo would be an even sadder sack if he didn't get to go for walks and I don't think I could handle a sadder Nemo.. this one is bad enough. Plus I have to deal with me and that is hard enough.

I fed the ducks yesterday and it was a freaken frenzy.. it was almost like they were starving or something.. so maybe I will make them some more bread tomorrow. I like feeding the ducks.. it is kind of peaceful and everyone needs a little peace in this crazy world where people do fucked up shit and get their arms sucked into toilets on trains.

Umm so lets see.. what have I been up to? Not a freaken lot.. altho I did finally get to see Kung Fu Panda and it had a few funny moments.. so now I just gotta wait for WALL•E and will be good in the world lol Actually you know what.. that is about all I got.. I have been up to pretty much nothing.. no excitement here. Sad? Yep!

Tai Lung: You... you're just a big... fat... panda!
Po: I'm not a big fat panda. I'm *the* big fat panda.

Meh!

Wow what a totally boring and uneventful week I have had. Nothing even remotely close to fun happened to me.. or even for me.. and I found myself wondering when the freak it would end coz boy o boy has it dragged.. actually speaking of boys.. something funny did happen..

I was walking down the stairs of my building and I noticed the morons.. in one of the apartments that I can't stand.. had opened the door a little and he obviously had heard me coming down and just as I was about to step in front of his door he went to swing it open right into me.. but I of course was too quick and responded by slamming the door shut back on him. Yes.. GO me! *pats self on back* and then I continued on my merry little way out the door to go and meet up with Emma at the station. I really REALLY hate my neighbours. They are inconsiderate asshats.

Now moving on from asshats.. to crazy nerds.. thats not really that big of a jump is it? lol Anyways... this happened in Boston at the Museum of Science and it was actually pretty funny.. but maybe.. just maybe one would have to have been there to really find it funny.. either way I am just gonna ramble on about it now coz a) I can and b) I can and c) I have nothing more important to say so this will fill in the gap.

Ok.. moving onto the actual story.. well there Emma and I are at the Museum of Science in the geeky computer area.. and Emma spies this table where you design your own programme to make a little fugly robot thingo move (it looked like a vacuum cleaner head) and well.. she was doing her thing.. there wasn't exactly instructions so she just started putting the different blocks together to make it do what she wanted to do.. it was a bit weird actually.. and I had no idea what she was doing coz quite frankly I wasn't paying attention.. I was paying attention to the little robot dog.. but anyways.. Emma asked me to do something and I wasn't so sure what she was asking me to do and well.. the crazy nerd lady overheard our discussion and took that as her queue to jump on in.. and jump on in she did.. she went into this over detailed explanation of what you are meant to do etc and what each of the blocks did etc.. and then when she finished she said all chuffed like "now you can tell people you made a programme" or well something to that effect anyways and Emma was like.. "uh yeah.. I kinda do that in my everyday life as its my job" or something to that effect.. hey give me a break it was how many weeks ago? and then crazy nerd lady was like.. "oh not so exciting then.. maybe you can say that you programmed a robot" or something to that effect.. but this isn't exactly the reason why she was crazy.. the reason why she was crazy coz then she was following us around.. trying to find another opening to talk to us again and it was all very creepy and made me just wanna get the freak outta there!! and we did and moved onto another section at the museum. Well there you have it.. the end of yet another post... sad yes? lol

Quentin Crisp - "If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style."

Gosh, he is cute!

Now what has been happening in this past week you wonder.. well I wonder that too.. I really do! I prolly had heaps of funny shit to say but really I have been slack and now I can't even remember the half of it.. what can I say I am getting old.. and actually now Emma is as old as me.. for at least the next 2 months anyways.

Saturday we had a birthday bash for Emma and I made a couple of yummo cheesecakes and Emma and I made our first attempt at making sandwich cake and it was a success.. which was nice.. maybe we will make it again. It was a good afternoon but by the end of it, I was well and truly knackered. I think Nemo was the happiest of all.. maybe he even thought everyone was there just for him.. who knows what goes through that dogs mind.. he is one of a kind.. as I just said to Emma coz currently he is all pissy at me for opting to do dishes instead of curling up on the couch with him.. hey a housewife has to do what a housewife has to do! & I am a housewife! hahaha

Lately I have been having the weirdest dreams of all the land.. seriously. The very very weirdest had to be the one I had when I was having a little snooze with Nemo on Friday morning.. there we were curled up all nice on the couch.. so nice that I dozed off instead off watching my show.. but then I woke up coz I had a crazy dream.. I actually woke up all wtf like.. wondering what was happening.. so it went a little like this.. there was a big bird with a kitten on its back and they were chasing butterflies.. yes.. you read that all correctly.. how insane is that dream? I have to wonder what it means.. but then do I really wanna know?Well that is about all I gots so I'm leaving you with this pic of Nemo... and how big does his mouth look? He just loves to have paper in his mouth.. and Emma's socks.. and gloves.. like I said one of a kind. Gosh, he is cute!

Threadless Poop!

"threadless" gets sung out opera style as I walk past a girl. Emma and I look at one another and just crack up.. americas are a bit weird! But in saying that it was nice to have one of my tees noticed as I can't really see it happening in Sweden because a) people just are not that open and b) I doubt many people in Sweden would shop at threadless so they wont exactly know the tees to be able to sing out opera style and c) well I can't think of a c so lets just leave it there.

The next day.. Emma and I head into Cheers to have a spot of lunch.. I actually got to have fish 'n chips.. it was nice but it wasn't the same as having it as takeaway from an actual fish 'n chip store ya know.. there is just something about ripping into a package of fish 'n chips and munching away on them using nothing but ya hands.. but it was the first lot of fish 'n chips I had had since like 2005 and it was enjoyable so I ain't complaining. Anyways though.. moving back to what I was originally going to say.. we head into Cheers and the girly who greets you to take you to your table stumbles out the question "threadless?" and we are all like "yeah" (as in like yeah we rock.. coz you see both of us were wearing threadless tees today) and she was like "cool" and then showed us to our table.. we sat.. we ordered.. we ate.. we paid.. we left! easy as that! lol

So it seems that my tees were noticed a fair bit in lamerica.. which is kinda cool and heck lets just say I'm famous! or not.. its up to you! I just love having wicked tees.. don't you? The best thing about tees is that you don't have to iron them.. unless you are wicked anal.. which I am not.. some people beg to differ tho and to them I give you the big finger.. and I don't mean the kit kat!

Ok, now moving onto the Poop part of the post.. I am sure you are wondering.. coz "Threadless Poop" is totally an awesome blog title right? right! but yeah so far there has been no poop talk.. well my friends this is where it comes in.. the poop talk..
So Emma and I have not long arrived in Boston and we are having a gander at the State House.. and I notice this woman walking a little oddly and slowly across the road.. giving oncoming traffic evil glares as they gave her wtf looks. It is not long before we too are across the road and walking behind this lady and just as I am about to say it looks like shes done something in her pants.. both Emma and I at pretty much the same time catch a wiff of the poopy stink and stink it sure was! We were walking the same way as her.. which felt like it was never going to end.. for ages!! I know poop stinks in general but man I would of hated to have been in a toilet having to smell it concentrated like that coz if it was that potent out in the fresh morning air.. it would have been 100x worse actually inside in a small area! The oddest part was though.. she didn't exactly look like the sort of person who would poop themselves but yeah I guess accidents happen and well.
Also we didn't actually realise until we got home.. actually I didn't even realise at all until Emma told me (which actually is the only reason I remembered poop lady.. so thanks Emma!) that we managed to get a photo of her outside the State House.. she is very small but she is the lady in the red top and black pants, across the road in the middle of THIS pic. The pic was actually taken before we even realised she was poop lady... which makes it even funnier and kinda awesome! lol

Moving from poop to toilet cleaner now.. I totally don't recommend citus tic tacs.. they totally taste like toilet cleaner.. totally.. and we have another 5 little packs of them! Anyone wanna try? hahahah

"M"

*Yawn* I have been home for a couple of days but I really haven't managed to get back into the swing of things.. which might have a little something to do with going through pics and writing blogs.. it is actually very time consuming and taxing on the brain to try and remember all the stuffs I got up to.. and to be honest I have prolly left out so much stuff.. but maybe as time goes on I will remember it and be able to refer back to it in up in coming blogs.. you never know.. you could get lucky.

It is good to be back but also I would of liked to have had more time there.. but really we came home at a good time.. coz otherwise we would have had no money left at all. I have been asked by several people what the highlight of the trip was.. and to be honest.. it was all so very good.. not a single day went by that I didn't really enjoy myself.. but then its hard not to enjoy yourself when you are seeing and experiencing things for the first time.

I really did have a good time and I was very happy to be around ENGLISH! not that anyone actually seemed to understand me.. and one toothless guy even thought I was irish.. go figure. Mind you he was a bit weird.. Emma was looking at hoodies and he goes to "M" and we look at him and he just says it again.. but it wasn't a normal sound M.. it sounded weird.. so after a few odd look he finally actually put a sentence together and said that we should trust him and that Emma would be M.. which looked a little big to my eyes.. but hey I don't have the best eyes.

Which actually brings me to something that happened while whale watching.. I got complimented on how good my eyes worked coz I could spot the whales before anyone else! Yes thats right.. I freaken ROCK! Anyways I could see the guy in the corner of my eye following where my elns was going.. it was highly amusing.. what was even more amusing was him asking me questions about my spunky camera.. or well I should say Emma's spunky camera.. coz I don't know what the freak I am doing with it for it to be classed as mine.. but I was in charge of taking pics.. coz as you know.. Emma was in the sick bay! lol The guy gave me some weird looks when I told him I knew nothing of the camera I was using.. ahhh good times!

*Yawn* well I best get to posting all the pics & stuffs...

& here are the links to the photo folders on bebo

Album 1
Album 2
Album 3

¤if you have problems getting those links to work then just go to
http://www.bebo.com/JoDinkleberry
and scroll down to the photos section and look at the pics from there¤

FROM!

We check in.. our bags are over weight but the dude says nothing so we say nothing.. then we head on through the secured area.. which meant we even had to take off our shoes.. there was a funny smell about the place! lol but yeah we got through with no drama.. but then again why wouldn't we?

So yeah we are through and we are a little shocked at just how small that area is and there are piss all shops. We had a few things to pick up so we head off to pick some whiskey and perfume for gifts for Nemo's sitters.. and once we are up and ready to pay the dude said that we are not allowed to buy alcohol on our flight and the perfume we picked will have to be broken down.. ie, take all the little bottles out of the packaging. Which made no fucking sense.. but apparently coz we are in transit we can't do it any other way.. which makes no sense.. coz well.. everyone in the airport apart from the people who work there are in transit! It pissed us off but we got over it and went and got comfy and waited for the hours to pass.

I also got to have my last little mishap with ordering before leaving the country. I felt like a little pick me up so headed off to Starbucks to order some coffee.. placed my order of water, caramel frap and a latte.. I got my water and my caramel frap and was waiting on my latte.. it didn't come.. I questioned this and was told that I didn't order one.. and I'm all like.. umm yes I did and then kindly pointed out that water and a caramel frap does not come to $9.60 and adding a latte would bring it to that total.. they saw I was right and made me a latte.. but still.. far out people.. am I really that freaken hard to understand? or is it just the universe playing mind games with me? coz its always the stuff that is for ME that gets left off/stuffed up! I just don't get it!

Time moved so slowly.. eventually it was time to board. We were seated to a complete asshole.. luckily Emma was sitting next to him and not me.. she has more control than me lol We were enjoying the view out the window on take off when the prick closes the window so that we couldn't.. we bite our tongues.. no point in starting something with over 5 hours of flying to do. Then after about an hour he accuses Emma of being on his side.. umm actually if you want to get technical it was her arm rest and she wasn't even touching you asshole! but he goes off at her.. and she just gives him a wtf face.. I mean really what could you say? he totally had small man syndrome. Prick. When Emma was sleeping.. he decided to move his arm onto her side.. its cramped and we understand this but you can't have a go at someone and then go and do the same thing that you were having a go about? but as soon as she woke up he quickly moved his arm.. dickhead lol.

Anyways it was finally time to start to land and well.. it got a little rough and a little freaky.. we were umm.. landing into a storm :| I have to say it was the worst landing I have gone through in my life.. and I thought I was going to die.. ok maybe not that bad.. but it was really rough and a little freaky to say the least but the pilot did a good job.. afterall I'm still alive! lol

Then the waiting at Iceland for the next flight was horribly boring.. but we grabbed some duty free.. no problems there.. go figure.. then we board the plane.. and there are delays.. apparently something wrong with the starter or something. Finally an hour late and we take off into the air.. a little rocky but off we go. It's time to snooze.. I basically sleep the whole plane ride to Copenhagen.. didn't see the point of waking up for foodage and my guts was still sore from the previous flights food.. I don't even know what it was.. and now I don't even want to know what it was.

Anyways we land in Copenhagen.. grab some more duty free stuffs before heading off to catch the train.. I got pulled down the belt.. coz well the bags were heavy and we were rushing to catch the train.. but we made it so all was good in the hood.

Finally home. Sitting on the step waiting for Emma's mum to arrive to let us in.. coz we had packed the keys.. yes we are that smart! I start to unpack and Emma calls Telenor coz they had sent a notice saying that if she didn't pay her account then they would cut it off.. when umm.. she didn't owe anything and had already cancelled the account.. Telenor are such asses.. welcome home!!

Emma and her mum head off to go and pick up Nemo.. Emma returns with him and he comes through the door and totally SNUBS me!! doesn't want to have anything to do with me and growls at me every chance he gets and gives me evil glares!! Welcome home indeed!

Final Moments.

Sunday.. we sleep in a little which was nice.. nothing planned for the day as it is the last day so it was time to get organised and all packed and ready to take off again. I feel like I could stay so much longer.. there is so much more I would like to see and do.. but that will have to be saved for another trip. I best start saving! lol

After breakfast and packing.. we head off to catch a flick.. coz I couldn't go to the states and not go to a flick.. and far out.. I was disappointed.. it totally didn't live up to my hype.. the experience or even the movie.. Eagle Eye.. its not that great.. the trailer looked good.. the movie lacked. Ah well.. at least I got to experience the giant drinks.. and they were giant! One thing I didn't get though, is they give you 2 giant drinks and a so called large popcorn.. far out the large popcorn in Sweden is bigger! and it wouldn't even be enough to justify the giant drinks you get in the US.. let alone the so called popcorn they give you.. maybe if you combine them together it would work. Anyways I did enjoy going to the movies and plus it was only $15.. $5 each that is.

We headed home, Emma and I made a leek quiche.. it didn't quite taste the same as when we make it here.. but I guess things are a little different in lamerica! It was still ok.. and better than airplane foodage! Yes I am still a little sour on it!

We hung out at home for the last few hours, chatting and laughing and wishing the time wasn't over... then when the time came.. off we toddled to the airport and see ya laters were said..

T&S!

Ahhhh YaY! a sleep in! Emma of course didn't sleep in.. but she didn't wake us up either.. instead she quietly read her book until we awoke.. I woke up before Hanna but let her sleep a little longer too.. it wasn't much longer until she woke up.

First stop of the day was a big outlet place.. and I mean BIG! So big infact we had trouble finding the car after we had finished.. which was kinda fun.. but we got a good bunch of cool stuffs.. I'm still in shock at how big the place actually was if I am to be honest and it was totally packed.. and they say people have stopped spending.. pft my ass!

After the big shop we headed off to grab a bite to eat before tackling the Tegan & Sara concert. I managed to freak myself out a little in the bathroom.. you see I wasn't quite expecting the toilet to automatically flush when my ass lifted from the seat so it made me jump a little and I made a little noise.. not a scream.. but just a little argh.. ya know? and then when I walk out there is someone standing there who works at the resturant and she is all cherry and says hello.. and I'm just standing there going.. this is a freaken toilet man.. privacy! lol it was just a little unexpected was all.. I said hello back as to not be rude but I was thinking.. weirdo! lol

I ordered seafood chowder.. coz well Emma said I HAD to have chowder and it seemed like this was my last chance.. so I tried it and I liked it and I would have it again. Hanna was amused at me chucking my oyster crackers into the chowder.. you see I did them one at a time.. coz there is nothing worse than soggy crackers.. ick! Unless its Huntley & Palmers crackers soaked in tea.. mmmm I haven't had that in years! I also ordered potato skins.. which were more like potatoes than the skins.. they were ok.. I preferred the chowder.

Then it was T&S time!! We get in.. take our seats and wait..........

First up is Girl in a Coma.. man they were rubbish! Although props to the lead singer.. she was wicked good at doing crazy legs! If only she was as good at singing as she was at crazy legs! & the bass player.. well every time she opened her mouth it looked like she was puking.. it makes me shiver just thinking about her. ick. All in all though.. their style.. actually just everything about them was rubbish and left me wondering wtf T&S were thinking having them tour with them?

Next up was City & Colour.. and he was good.. just so very mellow.. and so very different to what we had witnessed.. definetly not music to pump up the audience before T&S come out thats for sure.. again T&S wtf?

Finally T&S come out and made it all worth while.. totally freaken awesome!! From start to finish I totally enjoyed it all. Having gone to a European T&S concert and now having gone to the American one.. I would totally rather see them in American.. they seem more relaxed free with their words and all in all it was just a better experience and I am no longer mad about them calling me boring! lol Simply awesome is all I can say!

Shopping Whales!

Again a less cheery morning.. I think this morning was the most tense of all mornings.. grumble grumble! but its Friday.. and Friday is a good day and Hanna only had a half day so that was even betterer...

We remembered everything this morning and headed off to try for a third time to go whale watching.. and yes.. not canceled! but nooo.. it was rough seas.. 3-5m swells. They warned people about it.. so if you wanted to go and exchange your tickets for a different day then you could.. but Emma and I really couldn't coz we only had 2 more days left there and well they were already booked up.. so we grabbed some sea sickness tablets and grabbed a seat and headed off into the roughness.. it was a bit up and down.. and once we got out of the harbour.. it was much worse and well.. the puking started to come around us.. luckily it was contained in the sick bags.. which weren't that great really. We headed up to the top deck once the whales started making their apperances.. after about 5-10mins of Emma taking photos.. she got sea sick and had to head off to the sick bay area.. which was just the back bottom deck.. its where all the sicklys hung out. I was left in charge of the photo taking.. I got a few good shots.. Emma prolly would have got more as shes better at it than me.. but I did ok.

When it was time to head back in, I went and hung with Emma in the sick bay.. and fell asleep on the way back in.. all the sicklys were prolly looking at me going.. "BITCH!" lol I was so asleep that I didn't even know that Emma had attached herself to me.. she told me once I had woken up lol yeah I didn't find it that rough! hahaha It was heaps of fun though. I have never been whale watching and I would like to do it again sometime.. maybe oneday...
After we came ashore.. Hanna arrived to meet us and we headed off to grab some lunch before we hit the stores to do MORE shopping! It feels like most of this holiday has been spent shopping! I must admit I have handed the shopping aspect very well considering I am such a man when it comes to it.. I don't really like it.. but at least I don't have to go shopping again for a while.. and I got some pretty cool stuffs!

Forgotten!

A little less cheery this morning too.. the long days.. late nights and early mornings are really starting to take their toll on everyone.. even Emma.. she has gone from waking me up before the alarm to waking up when the alarm goes off.. which is kinda nice.

I guess it is really taking its toll on Emma coz she forgot to put the battery IN the camera before packing the camera into the bag.. so we were heading off to attempt to whale watch again.. and this time we couldn't do it coz we had no camera.. BUGGER! Luckily Emma realised before we had got the tickets. So to pad out our day we headed off to do the Freedom Trail.. which is very interesting.. we took a few pics using the iPhone camera but its not really the best for taking pics.. but it at least did the trick.. so all was not lost.

After we finished up with the Freedom Trail we headed off to Cambridge.. for a touch more shopping and to check out Harvard.. I guess its impressive.. its a school.. me and schools don't really mix.. but it was still interesting to see.

We finished up early and headed off to the pick up point.. as we weren't willing to make an attempt to make our way back to Hanna's place.. as we did't want a repeat performance of Tuesday! Luckily there was a Starbucks at the pick up point so we were able to kill the hour we had to wait.. kicking back drinking coffee and eating cake.. always nice. Saw this awesome sign in the restroom at Starbucks.. it cracked me so very much.. I guess americans need to be reminded?Once Hanna arrived we headed off to pick up Lindsey and say hello to her crazy pups.. one of them is VERY good at pretending it is running on a treadmill.. it was very impressive to say the least lol so anyways we grabbed Lindsey and headed off for sushi.. or well Emma, Hanna & Lindsey had sushi and I had noodles.. which were deLish! I tried some of Emma's sushi too and that was nice but I'm not the biggest fan of it myself.

For the rest of the evening we watched the Palin/Biden debate.. or well we watched it inbetween chatting.. but we caught the good points.. or is that funny points? What I did catch I did enjoy I must say.. its impressive to watch professionals talkin circles and not answer questions for.. what was it? 90mins? lol

Museum Day!

Once again up early.. getting less cheery but still up and ready to take on the day ahead.. we decided to start the day off with a donut holes & hot choco for breaky.. noice!

First stop... Museum of Science.
Pretty cool place... HUGE! Its a really cool place for kids/teens to hang out and learn though, not as great for adults.. and there are so many kids there that you feel like you are surrounded! but all in all it was pretty cool. I made a virtual fish.. and it got eaten! right in front of me. It was very sad! He didn't have a long life.. but he had a good one.. I thinketh! lol

Next stop.. Museum of Fine Art.
It was a bit hot and stuffy in there but it was good to see and learn a little about art.. I still however don't fully understand what makes something art.. coz some stuffs was like.. wtf? Anyways I saw loads of statues that had huge feet, hands and sometimes bodies.. with then tiny heads in comparison.. it was weird. Also I liked that NZ was in there with some maori stuffs.

Final stop.. JFK Presidential Library and Museum.
Totally my pick of the day.. I only wish we had of got there sooner so I could take more in.. but still it was freaken awesome. I really really enjoyed it..
whoda thunk it? lolWhen we got out.. hanna took ages to come!(it prolly felt much longer coz well.. it was raining) and then when she did come she drove the wrong way on a one way street! lol and then she noticed a cop or wannabe cop just in the parking lot.. but he didnt come for us.. coz we are awesome.

For the evening we headed off to a thai place for dinner with a couple of Hanna's friends.. one of which had a very cute little baby girl.. she was so much fun.. I really do miss having babies around! She had spent too much time hanging with her dog coz she liked to growl.. it reminded me of Nemo.. lol The foodage was really good.. I had crispy pad thai.. it was deLish!

Nightmare OF Elm St.

Up early.. still cheery.. got coffee.. dropped off at station.. contended with sardine train and then headed over to grab tickets to go whale watching to only discover that it had been canceled for the day or well morning session.. BUMMER!

All was not lost though, we headed off to the aquarium.. which was ace! While waiting for the place to open we watched the seals having fun in their enclosure.. they are truly awesome! I want one.. or two.. actually four is a good number! lol Once inside we headed for the penguins.. they had several different kinds and they are all very amusing to watch.. in the little blue's enclosure there were a couple of rebel penguins.. while the keeper was trying to feed them all there were two little ones that decided it was more fun to run away from her and make loads of noise.. it made it very entertaining for Emma and I to watch that is for sure.

After watching the penguins, we moved on to the other areas.. looking at all there is to offer.. the giant ocean tank was pretty awesome.. it was really cool to walk around and up watching all the animals.. swimming around.. watching them all co exist peacefully. When we got to the top we got to see Myrtle being fed lettuce and stuffs.. she was simply awesome.. and huge.. and I want her! We stood and watched her get fed for ages and the keeper was talking to us about stuffs.. I would so want his job.. the feeding Myrtle part of it that is.. lol Myrtle has been at the aquarium since it opened in 1969.. they put her at around 70 years of age.. she really is awesome.

On another note.. if you want to sponsor any animals at the aquarium.. then just go here

After we saw all there was to see at the aquarium we headed off to go on a Duck tour.. which was really funny.. our tour guide Ace Bandage was good at cracking the jokes and making me.. and everyone else laugh here and there. Being on the Duck is kinda bumpy and loud.. but rather fun.. good way to see a good little tour of Boston and its highlights.. although I thought the water part of things could have gone on a bit longer.. but hey it was still good and now I've been on a Duck!

After the tour.. we looked around a bit and then did a touch more foodage shopping.. mainly of things that we were bring back with us.. and started to make our way back home.. which is where things went horribly wrong! We got a little lost and to make things worse I was wearing new.. yes NEW shoes! Totally not cool! We walked for like an hour and a half.. had trouble finding Elm Street.. which would have put us on the right path to where we needed to go.. then hanna came to our rescue! Just in the nick of time.. took us home and then I cooked roast veg like a good house wife lol dinner was late but it was wonderful! You see we were making our own way back to hanna's to cook dinner so that when she got home she would have a lovely home cooked meal waiting.. it didnt exactly go to plan lol it was the thought that counted! haha

Its all about history.

Monday bloody Monday! Up early.. feeling cheery! Head off with Hanna to work.. or well Hanna goes to work after dropping us off at station to head into Boston but not before stopping at Starbucks to pick up coffee.. which was another little stuff up in the ordering department.. which over the course of my holiday became quite apparent that americans don't understand me! Am I surprised? Nope!

First experience of the peak hour trains in Boston.. packed and stuffy.. just like any other country.. but at least it wasn't a long trip so I didn't get too annoyed. The first thing I see in Boston is a black woman all dressed in white feeding pigeons.

It was pretty cool but crazy at the same time. Then we headed off to the information center to grab city passes and maps.. saw a crazy woman.. I wanted to use the bathroom but she was in there so I didn't bother.. yes I am chicken.. americans are nuts man! and I'm just the humble kiwi. Anyways we got what we needed and headed off to explore Boston.. first stop.. the Skywalk.. we encountered had a touch of trouble with the lifts which made for a good giggle.. but once we were up there and looking out it was pretty amazing. Then we walked around and checked out what Boston has to offer.. walking around we saw that it has many great buildings and is chock full of history. I wont however give you a history lesson.. coz we we know lessons are boring! lol

We did a stack of shopping.. we came home with a whole bunch of stuffs.. it was awesome but so very tiring! lol As the day got late we decided to head off to catch the train so that we could meet up with Hanna on time.. it was just as well that we decided to do this a little early coz as it turned out we arrived just on time.. as you see we waited for over 30mins for train at one station.. then finally emma said.. lets just walk this way and see if we have missed a sign or something.. we walk like 5 steps and see a sign that tells us to take any train to the next station and then grab the train that we want.. so typical! so very funny..

The evening was spent just laxing out at home enjoying some delicious sketti & meatballs that were made by Hanna's friend Lindsey.. who I must say made the bestest Chocolate Peanut Butter Cup Cookies.. which we enjoyed for morning tea earlier.. so good! I now have the recipe.. so maybe one day I shall try and re-create the goodness! I doubt it though..

New York City!

Up on time.. woohoooo! (only just actually)
We manage to catch the bus that goes 15mins before the bus we were booked on.. sweet! The 4 hours of bussage begins! Emma sat next to me and poor little Hanna ended up sitting next to a boy.. who liked to try and catch flies with his mouth! We arrive in Chinatown.. we were on the china bus(Lucky Star) you see and we were staying in a hotel in Chinatown so it all made sense.. so anyways we arrive and walk I guess in circles for about 30mins and finally find our hotel.. we are hoping to be able to check in early.. and sure enough.. YES! we can! awesome.. drop off our stuffs.. use the facilities and off we go to explore the big bad New York. The weather wasn't so nice.. hot, foggy and a bit rainy.

The smells in new york in general are not much to be desired.. but we walk around and do some sightseeing.. shopping.. all in all just taking in all of what new york has to offer.. including the subway. now that is a horrible hot experience.. you sweat your ass totally off! its so hot and more often than not cramped & pushy, oh and its a tad of the strange stinky side! but it gets you where you need to go quick enough so all is good in the hood.

We are in the park and we come across a couple of lads who are transporting a big fridge and they were far too busy checking out Emma, Hanna and I that they dropped the fridge lol not once but twice! hahah





& here I witnessed that it takes 2 sets of cops to tell a man off about riding his bike taxi thingo.. over staffed perhaps?

Saturday night rolled around after a long day of sights and shopping.. and the second to last stop was the BODIES exhibition.. which was freaken awesome! Emma was grossed out a little but all in all it really was awesome and interesting.. I would love to know just how they managed to do it all.. but then I think maybe I woud get a little grossed out too. Totally glad that I got to see it for myself thats for sure. Especially the hairy anus! hahaha

Over the course of the day i got many comments about my awesome xmen tee.. it was nice.. but yeah it totally IS an awesome tee! "Bub, where I come from thems fighting words!" which is like Emma's most fave thing to say as soon as she sees me wearing the tee lol

After we went to have dinner at UNO's.. which was meh.. it was ok.. I didn't know what to expect so I guess I couldn't really be disappointed as such.. but then again I was tired and sore.. who would of thought that walking the streets of New York would make you tired and sore! lol Dinner was the last stop for the day and we headed to the hotel to catch some shut eye.

And shut eye we did catch.. altho I was awoken by Hanna fumbing around to get back to bed.. which was kinda finny.. and I did sleep right thru emma fumbling around too.. go figure.. considering that she was in bed with me.. I didn't even feel her get in and out! I had the best spot when it came to needing to get up in the middle of the night for a potty break.. and I slept right on thru.. typical really! lol I bet if I had of been on the bed hanna was on.. then I would of needed to get up! coz really thats how it works right?

Anyways.. morning arrived.. Emma and I headed off to the Empire State building.. but sadly.. it was so freaken foggy that there was no point in going up coz we wouldn't have been able to do a damn thing! so we left and went on the hunt to find a dunken donuts for breakfast coffee and bagel.. after too much walking and a very cranky Jo.. we went back to the hotel to grab hanna empty handed.. with Hanna we found a DD.. and all I have to say is they have the shittiest coffee I have EVER had! ick! The New York Bagel was good though.. so it wasn't a total disappointment... not even the pissing down rain stopped me from enjoying my bagel and some of Emma's rather yummy hot choco! lol

Oh yes.. and while at the Empire State building we had this girl who just couldn't take no for an answer and kept talking and trying to talk us into doing something.. which I totally wasn't intrested in.. but yeah even when I had totally turned my back to her(after saying no thanks several times) she just kept on going.. crazy! Why would you? seriously?!

Anyways after breakfast we headed back off into the hot rain and did some more sights and shopping of course.. walked across the brooklyn bridge which was kinda cool.. busy though.. many people on bikes.. many people doing just what we were doing.. and many people on their morning runs.. cool place to run I would say.

After a long long day we jump on the bus and head back to Boston.. this time Emma sits with Hanna and I get stuck next to the passenger from hell! She just wouldn't stop moving.. and she kept rubbing her ass on my side.. and she had a freaken book light AND had the over head light on.. Why do you need both? WHY? She was so bad that she even managed to play footies with Emma.. who was in the seat across the isle from her! She really made the 4 hour trip feel SO much longer!

I was happy as to be able to get off the bus and home we headed.. once we got home it was time to just colapse in a big heap of human flesh and snooze.. I am shocked I didn't keep Emma and Hanna awake with my snoring.. coz I just know it would have been bad with how tired and sore I actually was!

The arrival!

Arrived all good and well.. but had to wait with what felt like a lifetime for our bags to come through.. which always seems to bethe way for Emma and I. Then we head on through the customs area and we had to hand over the sausage.. poor Hanna misses out on getting some of her fave sausage.. luckily she will be home in a couple of months anyways. The customs dude was a moron.. said that there was good news and that it was that we weren't going to get a fine coz we declared it.. well DUH we knew that you american moron! but at least we know that sausage in a can is fine and sausage in a vacuum pack is not! lol

We walk out the doors and Hanna was there waiting for us.. hello and hugs all around and off we toddled to Friday's after a short detour to drop of bags at homies. Friday's however, wasn't as good as I wanted it to be. *pout* I ordered a Friday's burger.. there was only one Friday's burger on there so I didnt feel the need to say anything more than the Friday's burger.. which has in the discription as having 2 slices of cheese! and when we got the burgers.. they had no cheese. When we questioned this, the server said that we ordered the hamburger and we were like umm NO.. we ordered the Friday's burger and she said that there were two so we had to say which one.. and she gave the impression that it was on the menu.. so I got up the courage and asked the table next door if I could borrow their menu and sure enough there was only one Friday's burger.. so I pulled her up on it and she then finally said.. ok my mistake(not her exact words but I don't really remember.. give me a break its been ages!). I don't like to be made out that I misread things.. when I don't and I don't like to be told I am wrong when I am right.. and I am more often right than wrong. We got our cheese so all was good.. but it wasn't very nice.. I prefer the one we get at Jam Factory in Australia and my drink was NOTHING like the drink that I get in Australia too.. so I was all excited and happy to go to Friday's and it was nothing but a let down. Great start yes? lol Still it was nice to be in an English speaking country!

After dinner we head on home and get all snuggled up in bed and snooze as we have to be up early to catch the bus for a big day.. or well... weekend in New York City!

TO!

Today was the day.. up early to get all organised before heading off on our adventure to the big bad land of americans. We hope its all going to be smooth sailing.. but of course that would be too much to ask.. especially considering Emma kept trying to totally injure herself leading up to leaving.. I was awoken nice and early by Emma walking into the barrier we had set up to stop Nemo from being able to go in the sitting room to scratch on the rug in the night.. anyways so yeah I woke up to a little crash and Emma only just managing to stay on her feet.. highly amusing to say the least! Moving along from that tho.. we lay in bed waiting for the time to pass before we actually have to get up.. then we get organised and say our good byes to Nemo.. which was kinda sad in itself and head off to the first stop on the agenda.. buying our train tickets to Copenhagen. Which resulted in drama.. as you see the money Emma had put on there the day before to make sure we had enough to get to and from Copenhagen.. well that money was gone and so Emma had to have a testy convo with the ticket lady who then after a fair bit of fuss (I was waiting outside so I had no idea what was happening but was getting annoyed that Emma was taking so damn long to just buy tickets!) Anyways the lady put enough money on the card so that we had enough for the return trip.. but it still meant that we were 122kr short of what we had put on there the day before so Emma had to call customer service while we waited to board the train. That convo took place and there was nothing that could be done until we got home apparently.. so we put it to the back of our minds and set off on our merry way to the airport.

We arrive on time.. which was nice.. usually trains are late.. so this was good.. we go to check in and this angry looking danish woman stops us from entering the queue and tells us to go and check in using the machines.. that seems to go all smoothly.. but then we are still left with our bags so we head off to the queue again and when we get up there we are told that we shouldn't have done it this way to queue here.. this queue was if you wanted to check in and check your bags in at the same time.. which is what we wanted to do to start with until angry danish woman stopped us.. anyways it got all sorted.. we checked in.. had our boarding passes and off we headed into the secured area of the airport.. which is where the fun happened.. Emma got stopped to be patted down and I was too busy laughing and watching that I didn't see it was my turn and then just when I thought I was going to get patted down also.. the guy just tells me to step to the side.. all the fun stuffs happens to Emma!

What was very funny though was that I had just finished giving my permission.. not that they really need it.. coz if you don't give it then you will miss your flight with all the fun proceedures they go through.. umm anyways I had just given my permission for him to check through our stuff when Emma walks up and just starts grabbing it all.. it made me laugh so very much! But yeah we got through smooth sailing.. probably coz we are so innocent and wouldn't be stupid enough to even try and take anything through.. but yeah we are through and we start to look around and do a spot of shopping.. there was a surprising large amount of stores.. and that is where I came across Starbucks! Totally awesome!! It has been since I lived in Australia that I had a Starbucks coffee.. which as it turned out.. wasn't that nice but hey at least it was more than luke warm.. which is what you get when you order anything at Espresso House in Malmö.

Finally we boarded the plane.. we took off and in the air we were.. it all seemed to go nice and smoothly so maybe our luck had changed? or maybe not.. when the foodage came around.. they went to give Emma a normal meal instead of the vego meal and also tried to say that we hadn't ordered the vego meal.. we had.. and we eventually got it.. and then they came past with drinks.. and the hostess then proceeded to knock over Emma's sad salad right into her lap.. she kept saying "are you sure its ok?" even though Emma had not said that it was ok.. and if the woman had of just taken a little look at Emma's face she would of seen that it was NOT ok. But I guess we should be happy that it was just the salad without any wet dressing on it.. but still.


Oh yes.. and what ever happened to good airplane foodage? Seriously.. that used to be one of my favourite things about flying.. the wonderful little single serve meals.. that usually tasted good.. now however they taste like poo and well.. are not to get excited about.. at all. The food was so bad.. cold chicken.. like icy cold and some curry potato salad.. then the next flight was warm chicken with slightly less warm curry rice. Oh and who can forget the crazy dairy side dish thingo.. make of skim milk and left a puke taste in ones mouth.. it was really very odd.. why it would be served on a plane is beyond me.. I'm shocked it didn't make the whole plane puke! lol

We land in Iceland, which is a pretty sad airport.. but I get a stamp in my passport! YaY! its only taken 2 1/2 years to finally get a stamp that pretty much means I'm not in transit.. you see.. my passport has a stamp of me leaving Melbourne airport but then that is where it stopped, so according to my passport I was still flying about! lol So now.. I have landed in Iceland! Anyways the stop over here is short.. only like an hour or so.. we got and wait at the gate until its time to go through the boarding area where we then get crammed into a smaller room before actually being able to board the plane.. go figure.. it was all very odd. We board. We take off and the longer flight is about to take place.. and our luck has finally turned.. we get 3 seats to ourselves! so we get to have an empty seat inbetween us and kick back and really enjoy the flight.. & as it turns out.. you don't get a free movie on this flight.. you have to pay us$10 to watch an OLD flick.. not even anything new! shocking.. so we didn't bother. Then Emma had some more bad luck with the new set of hostesses.. this time one flicking ice cold water at her.. how nice!

The flight seems to take forever!! but it is finally time to start to land when we get told that we have to circle Boston first and wait for the weather to clear a little.. so we did a little loop de loop before coming in to land.. but it was all ok. *thumbs up*