Normal Experiences

Miranda and I

Front: Miranda, Back: Shannon

Joy, Alanah and Haf on the Carriage ride

Nauvoo Temple

It was crazy sunny

Mike and I at Carthage Jail

Normal Illnois State Farm Park

Through the Watery Gates

Haf my Host

Hi all well here i am in Normal Illnois and I'm just laxing out at Joy and Haf's very comfortable home. They are being very nice and welcoming of me, mike, chris and lars and i'm having a good time. It is crazy hot here it's hit 100 degrees everyday since i've been here I swear. We went to Nauvoo Illnois and Carthage Jail all great church history sites. The temple in Nauvoo is beautiful and all the history is great . It all has a very nice spirit and there are heaps of LDS people around there. Its a little town with all this amazing history and an amazing temple at the centre of it. It was really nice. Carthage was great but i was tired and it was hot so i don't think i got the full experience. Normal is very suburdan which is great. I've hit small town Windsor VT, Big city Boston and Chigago and now suburdan Normal Illnois. Nothing much to share i'm just chilling out and i'm getting back on the round tomorrow heading back to Vermont. Two days driving not extremely excited about siting in the car but it's all part of the experience.

Two Countires in Two Days

Buffalo, the home of the original Buffalo Wing


Niagara Falls in Canada






Henry Ford Museum in Detroit





Chigago




OMG I've been to some extremely cool places in he last couple days. I went to Canada and back in one day and saw the Niagara Falls, so amazing i don't think i've ever seen so much water in my life so very very cool. I went to Buffalo in New York state and had some original Buffalo chicken wings, YUM YUM! Went to the Henry Ford Museum and saw the tour where they put a car together getting a birds eye view of all of that, so very very cool. The museum was full of cool old cars, the Rosa Park bus, old planes, steamer engines and a massive sausage car. O and the creepy KKK guy which i had to get a picture of to creep myself out later in life. HAHA. Chicago was amazing my favorite city thus far i just loved it so much with all its amazing sky lines and Michigan Ave an awesome fashion street. I stayed in a hotel right in the heart of the city having cool city views from my room. I just love Chicago a must see city in your life time. Went to the Museum of Contemporary art and saw some very cool works, Alexander Calders mobiles where amazing and so creative. I'm now relaxing in Normal,Illinois and I'm loving it at Joys, Chris's sister. Sorry for the delayed blog as you can see i've been very busy being a tourist and having the time of my life.

Mixed Adventures

Chris and I in Burlington for The Swell Season

Yummiest Watermelon ever

Woodstock

Cute Stuff

Longest Covered Bridge in the USA

Driving across the Border from New Hampshire to Vermont

Cool New Hampshire Sky

Alice at the Dartmouth Green

Dartmouth

Mike and Lars

Windsor Station Pub

While in Vermont I've traveled around over the Connecticut River to New Hampshire and back to Vermont. Its crazy that i can just drive 2 mins down the road and I'm in another state its just over the river. I drive like 20 mins and I'm another little down of Vermont. I drive 2 hours and I'm in Burlington(Vermont's Big City). Its cool. Full of restaurants and a big street mall right down the middle like cashel street in CHCH. I went up there for The Swell Season concert and it was really busy all the restaurants were buzzing with people and music. The Swell Season was amazing so very cool. At the top of the list of my concerts.
I'm loving my little nephew he's so very very cute with his big blue eyes and cute little words and sounds. I just love him even when he almost smashes the television with the lamp that is bigger than me.lol
OMG the watermelon here is amazing so juicy and red and yummy yummy yummy! i could live off of it forever. Juicy Juicy GOODNESS

Leilani and me with the baby head.

Cool wall found in Museum of fine arts.

Boston Fine Arts Museum

The Doom of The Christian Science Museum

Financial District

Yummy Yummy Dinner

I hit the museums on my last day in Boston, Leilani and I. The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum is amazing. There were Raphael's, Sandro Botticelli's, old letters from USA presidents, a letter from Marie Antoinette and so much more. The walls were cover in fabric and the house was built around a garden which was the center of the house. The women who owned the house Isabella Gardner wanted everything to stay in the exact place she left it. Some paintings have been stolen from the Museum and all the frames are still there waiting for the paintings to be returned. Next we went to The Museum of fine arts which is huge and they even have New Zealand pounamu there(a little bit of home). I saw Monets, Degas and many more amazing artists. Boston was cool and i hope to go back so i can look inside the Christian Science museum as it was closed. A visit to Cirque De Soleil was what ended my travels in Boston along with Quincy market and more amazing architecture.