Friday 8th May - Day 15

Today we went to Terry's brother and his wife's house. It was her graduation in the evening but we just went for lunch at a burger place stayed there for a while. then this evening we went for a meal - Terry took us out. Then i came home and packed! Now im ready to go home tomorrow!

Thursday 7th May - Day 14

Today Emily and I went to Starbucks to meet up with her friend, Jodie. That was nice to talk to her. Then we went to the puppy place again, our favourite puppy had gone :( but there a really new cute one - a golden retriever. We went home for dinner and sat out in the sun with our chicken sandwiches and then went to pick Terry up from work. On our way home we went to a park with a big pond and played loads of ball games and then walked around the pond. Emily found spring Onions. She picked loads of them up and ate some for tea. She said they were really hot! Hehe. Then we watched a film and had some wine! Terry fell asleep halfway through!

Wednesday 6th May - Day 13

This morning, Emily and Terry's Paster came over to interview emily about her big changes moving over to America etc, to show at church. They do it with different people each week. Then when he went home, we drove about an 15 minutes to the mall to change a jumper thats was too small for Terry. Then we drove another 15 mins, to the CANDY FACTORY!! Its a smallish shop full of Candy and behind the wall is the actual factory where they make it. You can see them making it, there are little windows. It was so cool. I bought some candy, why wouldnt I when I'm there! Also instead of just bying the candy and thinking you might not like it, you get to try as much or as little as you want!! :) We were there for a couple of hours! Then this evening, we had friends over and Emily made us a really nice roast dinner!!! It was so tasty. That was fun with the family, we all watched Emily and Terry's videos of them Skydiving. The children wanted it on over and over and over again, until they went home, they are only 2 and 3. But it was really fun!

Tuesday 5th May - Day 12

Today we went to Amish Acres. It was really interesting! we went to school like they do in Amish days. The most intersting part of the day wasnt actually the museum, We were in an Amish town. There were real Amish people living like that. Cycling their bikes, going in their buggies and horses. It was really intersting! We even went to an Amish restuarant where they were serving us and everything! Cool! Then later in the evening we got a mexican dinner from atake-away place as it was a mexican day and sat outside and ate it while drinking punch!

Monday 4th May - Day 11

Today Emily and I went up the Hancock building. It was sooo cool!! You get to see for miles across and around Chicago. You even get to go outside along a corridor. its fenced off but its outside. It's on the 94th floor. The elevator took 40 seconds to get up to the that floor, 20 mph! It felt like we wereon a train, our ears kept popping! I bought a few souvenirs up there. Then we went to Navy Peir which (It's called Navy Peir because it used to belong to the navy) is quite far along a peir with an amusemen park on it and souvenir shops and a few other things on it. It was a very nice day :)

Sunday 3rd May - Day 9 & 10

Yesterday Me, Emily and Terry went to Michigan (it's an hour ahead of Chicago). We went to a tulip festival. Its a festival with lots of tulips and dutch people. The place is called Holland. I came all this way to find out im going to Holland, Haha. We had a great time. There were loads of stalls with lots of different things in them and a parade of dutch people dancing around in Clogs! Then we walked around the town. Then we went to a clog factory!! Thousands of clogs there! I bought a keyring of clogs with something I asked a women to engrave for me. It's really nice. Also I got a magnet for Mike's Mum and Dad with their names on. It's really nice!

This morning we went to church and then came home and played more outside games. I got sunburnt on my shoulders!! We were outside all afternoon!! Ouch. Then Emily and Terry went to Bible study this evening and i'm tidying the house for them and doing a few other things.