The Homestead Evanston

... place was a mad house as it seemed like everyone from the town was in here eating dinner. Coming from Texas, it was a bit different for us to see that there were many groups of people eating at the same table with others that weren't with them. We are used to a big group eating at one table, but here it was typical to see four groups of people eating at a round table and not know each ...

... cold so we drank tea and read. The next day we took a free tour, sat by the London Eye and saw Billy Elliot! I loved it! But not as much as the man sitting next to me. I wondered if he was related to the boy playing Billy or if he was just a die-hard fan.

The next morning I went for a run to get out my jitters for the 9 hour plane ride then went to the airport. I watched three movies (Ghosts of Girlfriends Past, The Hangover and The Proposal) and 4 TV shows during ...

... I had to eventually leave the MM and do what a tourist does best, and that is start doing tourist-y things! In no particular order, I started a walking tour of ...

... for me. It was the family of one of his favorite students, Leah Shefsky. Although, being in the same grade at Evanston, we had never met each other at school. No doubt, it's so huge! After this, things went by as if God was directing the movie of my life from heaven. The day I heard about this family interested in hosting me, another good news struck me. I was in my Chemistry last class when one of my nicest friends, Louisa reveals upon me that her family ...

... unfortunately overtaking the native tussock, but it does look neat. The area I was in was a volcanic zone stretching from this park (right in the middle of the north island) to White Island about 70 miles to the northeast. The date was March 17, 2005, New Zealand's fall season. I'll get back to the significance of the date later. The bus driver gave us a speech, telling us to make sure to make it to the end by 5 p.m., because the last bus leaves there at 5:30 p.m. The time ...

... Just like I wouldn't order Carolina style BBQ in Kansas City. I gave Beth her birthday present a day early since I was leaving in the morning. Early morning. It was a scarf and it came wrapped around a plastic ring. Well I had no idea I was bringing two gifts. Beth's cat Letty loves that ring. We had lots of entertainment value throughout the afternoon as she found all different ways to play with it. When Letty decided she needed a ...

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After a flying with Virgin Atlantic from heathrow we had to connect here a Ohare to get to Omaha.

Wow the first experience of a delayed connecting flight due to weather conditions and AAirlines not flying we set here for hours waiting for the connection flight.

After a 30 - 40 minuiete walk accross from the international ...

Since my mother's return flight to Taiwan was scheduled on August 24th, I also had to delay my return flight to Chicago until the same day. So that's it, farewell, Vancouver, one of my favorite cities in the world. Unless there is a job offer comes along, or I really don't known when I will come back to Vancouver again. There was a long layover in Denver. But fortunately, a new issue of Conde Nast Travelers magazine is ...

... House at #1355. From there, I headed over to Oak Park which is supposedly also known for it's gorgeous architecture. Unfortunately, after the hour or so that it took me to get there on the subway, it wasn't all that. After a quick walk around the area, I then read up that Andersonville was supposed to be a cool happ'nin place so took the subway to Berwyn and walked the half mile or so due West. The walk was down some nice back streets which was pleasant, especially as most of the ...