Jonners' Canterbury Tales » America

jonners99 — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 15:45:40 +0000

Short entry today I reckon. Played Madden on the wii in the morning and won the game. I went out for lunch at Ottaker having turned down the option to go to Thorpe Park for the day because I had already gone once this year. Lunch was good and led to a short bit of shopping and posting something I had sold on ebay. In the afternoon I got in and watched Scarface which I really enjoyed. It was much better than I was expecting it to be and I preferred it to the Godfather, am I the only one?
In the evening I had curry and then tried out the Scarface game on wii only to find it was awful with dreadful motion sensing controls that I couldn’t get the hang of. I believe it went back on ebay soon after.

jonners99 — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 08:30:00 +0000

Finished the packing I started last night when I woke up at 6am and then was driven to the airport by the ladies. I checked in for my flight in about 5mins and got through security in 10 after some short goodbyes from the family. I had a good time with them in Denver, they are all very nice people. I waited around for my flight to Philadelphia by playing on my DS. I had an hour long wait and little to do so this took the time quite quickly. The flight to Philadelphia was uneventful, I spent it looking out the window and listening to music.
Once we landed in Philadelphia I got a little lost as I couldn’t find the right terminal for a while and so went shopping. It didn’t exactly matter, I had a four and a half hour wait anyway. I asked a couple of people whether I needed to collect my luggage and go through security again they both said no so I believed them and enjoyed looking in the newsagents which can only be found in Airports. There was little else to do so I bought Sports Illustrated with its NFL preview and had Mcdonalds for dinner. The flight eventually boarded and I was sat next to a nice Indian couple on the way back to Gatwick. We ended up leaving Philadelphia an hour and a half late (we had to sit on the plane the whole of that time) as we waited for connecting flights to come in. They never showed and so we eventually gave up. After food was served on the plane I tried somewhat unsuccessfully to get sleep on the plane.

jonners99 — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 07:15:31 +0000

Went to Beth’s church again this morning for a good service. There were fewer of Beth’s friends around this week and so we got out quicker after the service. We took Rachel to Chipotle for lunch and then we went to a fabric store to get patterns for Beth’s possible wedding dresses. When we got back I started packing which really didn’t take me very long. We then played games long into the evening and I stayed up online for a while in the evening in the hope that it would help me sleep on my nice long flight tomorrow.

jonners99 — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 07:07:34 +0000

This morning Beth and I headed to her local park where we read for about an hour. In the afternoon Craig drove Beth, Rachel and I into Downtown Denver where we went to a big Labor day weekend fair called Taste of Colorado where there were lots of stalls with food and cultural things to do with Colorado. We spent three hours looking around and it was good fun. They also had a fun fair but alas no bumper cars. For dinner I believe I had a buffalo burger and then it was off home again for a quiet evening in and possibly some scrabble.

jonners99 — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 22:33:28 +0000

Beth and I headed out quite early to go to the cinema and see the film Superbad which Beth has reviewed for my website here. I enjoyed it a little more than she did I reckon but I wouldn’t disagree with what she said. In the afternoon we picked Rachel up from school and then watched Hot Fuzz with Fran. They enjoyed it I think although we did have to watch it on Beth’s laptop screen (never ideal, tiny and it flickers). In the evening Beth and I got to go to a concert. In around February I put a bunch of Weird Al Yankovic videos on my blog, well we got to see him in Concert. He did most of his best songs and was brilliant live. I was a little apprehensive before hand thinking that he might not be able to live up to his recorded stuff but it was very well put together. The show lasted about two hours with no other bands performing so he did a good job. Costume changes were covered very well by archive clips of him “interviewing” famous people. All in all a better night out than I expected, thanks Weird Al.