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Hi Obama - Nice meeting you!!
... of the Company. While in Milwaukee we found out that President Obama was going to give a speech at their local stadium & so Mike thought it would be good to go & have a listen We went to his campaign office to get free tickets for the big speech, being held the following day & were told that over 30,000 would be going. We drove to Summerfest stadium at noon, the gates were going to be opened at ...
Pizza Pizza
... a Supreme, but the pizza would take about 45 minutes to cook, so we were glad to pass the time by scarfing down some giant, spinach-stuffed mozzarella cheese sticks with fresh-made ranch dressing.
The monstrous deep-dish arrived and was every bit the super-cheesy, super-thick pizza we were expecting. We managed to down 1 piece each before we were ready to pack it in and head back to the train station...leftovers in ...
The Countdown Begins...!
... America account before departure
so I can access ATM's for free through their relationship with China
Construction Bank. Still on the search for comfortable walking shoes
wearable with sundresses. And trying to cope with the fact that facebook
does not make it through the Great Firewall of China...hopefully this
travel blog will be permissible!
Future posts are going to be much more interesting, I ...
Six Flags & The Windy City
Howdy folks,
Steffie and I had a very early start to the day and we weren't even camping! We had to get up and get ready at 6am because our host Thomas had to get to work early. It didn't really inconvenience us because we hadn't seen any of Milwaukee the day before. So it gave us a chance to have a bit of a look and we started at a very ornate water tower we had seen the day before. We drove down North Lincoln Memorial Boulevard which runs alongside Lake Michigan and passed ...
Our Last Day In Chicago & Our Flight Home
... as painless as you'd want it to be....nearly 15 hours in flight, pretty smooth and reasonably quiet. Plenty of in flight entertainment and plenty of sleep on the trip home. We landed at Tullamarine around 8am on Monday....completely bypassing Sunday with the time difference.....and greeted with....."Welcome to Melbourne, where it is a cool 4C outside!".....a little bit different to 40C+......but very much welcomed......glad to be home! ...
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