United States of Rhys

Friday 8th October USA - 6.45am / Australia 9.45pm
Well it's been a little while since I updated my blog... we are now at Dulles Airport, which is the International Airport in Washington.  We are flying out to Toronto, Canada today.   but first, I should tell you about Las Vegas...

We arrived and checked in to our hotel, Planet Hollywood which was beautiful.  While we were in Vegas we walked through a lot of the hotel/casinos.  My favourite thing about Las Vegas was that I bought my IPod touch at the Apple Store in Caesars Palace.  It was very cool, and the man that we bought it from thought I was clever when I was talking to him about the Ipod and knowing so much about the technology.  We also went to the M&M's store and the Coke Store.  At the M&M's store, there are 4 stories of M&M stuff and we watched a 3D movie called "I Lost my M In Vegas" it was lots of fun.

That night we went to the Human Nature show at the Imperial Palace (thank you to Meghan who organised the tickets through her cousin, Sharryn).  It was fun and we got to meet the boys from Human Nature who signed our CD.  Josh got the drummer's drumsticks, which was also cool.

We got up the next morning and got on a bus which went to Boulder Airport, where we got on a small propeller plane which flew us out to the Grand Canyon.  There, we saw some big black clouds coming over and all of a sudden it started to storm.  We got to see the main part of the canyon but we couldn't do the skywalk which was a bit disappointing.

The next day we flew to Washington.  It was a long flight and I sat next to Mum and tried to sleep but didn't sleep for very long.  We arrived at 6am and got to our hotel and went straight for part of our trolley tour.  That night we slept from 6pm til 9am (we were very tired) and then the next day we went and saw all the important monuments including the White House, the Abraham Lincoln memorial (which was my favourite) and we spent some time at the Smithsonian National Air & Space Museum, which I could have spent all day looking at. 

My favourite thing about Washington was the huge amount of squirrels that we saw running through the city.  They were everywhere !!!  We also heard lots of sirens and saw lots of police cars and fire trucks. 

I will write more from Niagara.

Bye !!!