My Hovercraft is Full of Eels

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what we’ve been doing

July 11th, 2011 by callum · 6 Comments · flights, food, trains, travel, USA

first we got a taxi to Edinburgh air­port and then we took a tiny pro­peller plane (which kept doing pro­peller exer­cises before going on to the run­way) to Dublin.

The plane that we went onthis is the plane that we went on

Then we had to go through secur­ity again and they threw away a bottle of water that I had bought past secur­ity at Edinburgh! Then we went through a US pre-clear­ance were they scanned our fin­ger­prints and made us look into a little cam­era. Then we had to wait for the big plane to take us to America.

Our flight was com­plete with lem­on soaked paper nap­kins so we wer­en’t delayed for mil­lions of years (see The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, Secondary Phase/The Restaurant at the End of the Universe) and I “Wasn’t as scared as I was scared I was going to be scared!”

This is The Plane That We Went on to America!

When we got to Chicago air­port we did­n’t have to go through any more secur­ity checks so we col­lec­ted our bags and got the bus to the hotel.

It was the wrong hotel.

When we finally got to the right hotel we dis­covered the very cool ice dis­penser and that there really was, as advert­ised a TV in each room (pure excitement.)

The next day we went to the Chicago field museum and saw Sue (the largest and most com­plete Tyrannosaurus rex in the world) and  went on the under­ground adven­ture (a very dis­ap­point­ing sim­u­lat­or which showed you about the soil and “made you seem as though you were 100th of your size”).

After that we took the Amtrak to Grand Rapids. We went over a lot of level cross­ings so we got to hear the train whistle a lot!

The next day, at Debbie and Mike’s house we had blue­berry pan­cakes for break­fast and swam in the pool all morn­ing. in the after­noon we went to the lake near their house and swam there.

The next day we went to a steam and motor fair and saw lots of old tract­ors and steam boats. then we went in the lake again to cool off.

Yesterday (10÷7÷11) we went kayak­ing and canoe­ing on the Thornapple  river and saw lots of little fish and turtles (ter­ra­pins). Then we went in the river and  the lake (yet again!) to cool off.

Today we were going to to go camp­ing by lake Michigan earli­er but there was a huge thun­der­storm with thun­der and light­ning so we are going to go later.

sorry that  this post was so long

sorry that I haven’t blogged enough recently (there’s been so much to do)

sorry that I say sorry too much

bye by

CalluMullac  ;):):D

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6 Comments so far ↓

  • Sally

    Hi Guys, great to hear what y’all have been up to — keep blogging!!

    Sally x

  • beth

    How the heck did you man­age to take pic­tures of the planes you were on FROM THE OUTSIDE? This is freak­ing me out! Please try to stay inside the planes from now on!

  • Martha

    Great to get your news, Callum.Lots of thun­der here too and sev­er­al inches of rain.
    Love from Martha.

  • Clare Macaulay

    Sounds fun! Annoying to have water con­fis­cated — i was unbe­liev­ably cross at hav­ing hag­gis I’d bought in the depar­ture lounge, con­fis­cated on arrival in Canada — did­n’t even fit their rules of what needed con­fis­cat­ing but rest of hol­i­day was fab.
    I missed a big flood in Edinburgh but Shane’s office was let­ting in water. Hope we are okay cyc­ling in Holland — tent flooded last year!
    Hope you get to Michigan.

  • Gordon

    Glad you are hav­ing a great time. Main prob­lem here was yes­ter­day, when we went shop­ping and the car key would­n’t switch on the igni­tion! Never happened before and hope nev­er again! After 15 minutes switch­ing on and off it sud­denly worked and seems O.K. now. Here’s hop­ing any­way. We have enjoyed the demise of the NOTW and the polit­ic­al reac­tions. I put in my name again to AWAAZ, so that was something.
    All the best.

  • callum

    Beth: Jetpack! Duh!

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