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Thursday 28th May

2009-05-28T23:14:00.002+01:00

This week hasn't been great for me! First I had the flu, then on monday I walked to work and think I walked through thousands of horse flies or masquitos or something and got bitten - all day i was scratching like mad. That night I went to get after bite gel stuff and that didnt work. The next day still as scratchy as ever, then that night it got worse, Mike looked it up on the computer to see if there was anything I could do, cos the bites werent just one or 2 bites, there were welts all over my body! on every part of my body, so when mike looked on the internet, he said we had better go to the doctors (this was at 10 o clock at night) so I went to the care doc. Luckily I did go, I showed the doctor just one part of my body, my legs and he said it was Urticaria - some type of allergy. I was allergic to the bites. It was starting to get to my throat, and I could have suffocated from it if i didnt go. Anyway the doc gave me an anti-histimine (an injection, on my bottom!!) then it was gone! Wow!! I was so happy! Now today I have a bad stomach. So waiting to completely get better!

Friday 22nd May

2009-05-22T20:49:00.002+01:00

im finally better and back to work today! I was sick with the flu and in bed for 6 days! I went to work today and I was fine! I'm a bit tired and stil sounds like I have a cold but recovering. Worked flew by today, I did 1-6 this afternoon. Tidying my room and watching T.V. I'm also working for the next 3 days and then working for a couple of days throughout the week but it's fine! :)

Wednesday 13th May

2009-05-13T20:57:00.002+01:00

I worked from 930-230 today. even though i thought i was suppose to be working from 12-5. i had a text this morning asking to to come in but it worked out better! i bought a new guinea-pig today as a friend for my guinea-pig! i thought my original guinea-pig was a boy but now im not too sure! but they get on great together!

Monday 11th May

2009-05-11T19:11:00.002+01:00

I was working today!! It was really nice though. I thought the kids would be upset that their parents wouldn't be there, but it was nice. I enjoyed work today. It went really quickly. I am going swimming later on this evening! :D

Saturday 9th and Sunday 10th

2009-05-11T19:02:00.002+01:00

I got home this morning from America at 735 am. I had 2 hours sleep on the plane, but i have not been that tired! Im very surprised! Im working tomorrow at 2 pm until 6. Not too bad! Me and Mike went to Blanchardstown on the way home and Liffey valley. (which are in Dublin - shopping centres) We went to Liffey Valley first and sat down and had some lunch. That was really nice, it was really nice to Mike! We had a great day. Then last night, Mike drove me to Clonmel (about 40 minutes away) to go food shopping in Tesco - that's our nearest Tesco!!

Friday 8th May - Day 15

2009-05-09T16:38:00.002+01:00

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

2009-05-08T13:54:00.003+01:00

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

2009-05-07T15:29:00.003+01:00

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

2009-05-06T15:00:00.002+01:00

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

2009-05-05T13:52:00.002+01:00

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

2009-05-04T00:14:00.002+01:00

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.

Friday 1st May - Day 8

2009-05-02T14:43:00.002+01:00

Took it easy again today. Then this evening Me, Emily, Terry and Terry's brother, Mike and his wife Missy went for a japanese meal!! yummy. The man cooked right in front of us and did little tricks. It was cool!

Thursday 30th April - Day 7

2009-05-01T16:20:00.002+01:00

Oh, today Emily and I went to the Science and Industry Museum. It was really cool. Loads of things to do. you could stay there for about 2 whole days. There was also, inside, an Omnimax. An Omnimax is a cinema but the screen is the whole of the ceiling and around. The seats are slightly so you can sea. You don't actually watch a film though, it's a 45 minute documentary about fish and Africa. But its so cool! You have to pay extra for that if you want to see it. Then this evening Emily's friends came over - Sarah, Neida and Jill. We played Cranium which is a game that you have to be in team. We had some wine, some snacks. It was really fun!

Monday 6th April

2009-04-06T19:01:00.004+01:00

I went to Newpark leisure club (where Michael works) this morning with Bree (the little girl I used to Aupair and her mum) It is really nice!!! Very posh!! It's huge now. The ladies changing room is twice as big as it was and very smart. It now has a relaxation room and an outdoor hot tub. It was really nice to relax in the jacuzzi. Michael's uniform is funny, but smart. It's black and he has to wear combat shorts and a tight top and funny little plimsoles, haha!

Wednesday 29th April - Day 6

2009-04-30T13:44:00.002+01:00

Today we played a game first of all, then Emily's friends came round with her children (the one who we had dinner with before), Karen. Then whenthey went home, Me and Emily went to a cow farm to see the cows being milked. It was really fun and interesting. After the tour we got to watch a film about it in 3D and the chairs shaked that we sat in and say when the cow pooed on the screen it would spray water in our faces. It was really funny. Then we went to the Birthing Barn where the cow was giving birth but we were there for about and hour she stil wasnt making any progress so the women who looks after them went in to check if there was any problem. She was trying to help the poor cow out by pulling the calf out but it wouldnt budge. So she called the vet to see if they could both pull it out together. They said they had to close the barn down because they have to do a process that we were not allowed to see. Its horrible, the calf was actually stuck in the pelvis, so what they might have to have done is cut up the calf to do get him out, there for it was going to die, it was getting distressed already. :( Then we drove home and Emily, Terry and Myself went out to a buffet place. There is al sorts of different types of food there. That was a real American place to eat. They were all huge!!

Tuesday 28th April - Day 5

2009-04-29T14:21:00.004+01:00

Today Me and Emily just took it easy, it was really nice, Emily first dropped me off at a place called Target because she wasnt feeling well so she could go back to bed. This place was huge and it was the small version. I bought a game and got photos developed and a few other bits and bobs. That was nice, i was in there for about an hour or more! Emily then came to pick me up and we rented a film - The boy in the striped pajamas, ive seen it before but emily hasnt. Its a brilliant film, I recomend it! Then we went to Starbucks! I love Starbucks, I had a hot chocolate, Emily had a coffee. In this Starbucks, they have board games there. So we stayed and played Boggle and Battleship, we were there for a couple of hours! It was fun! On the way home we stopped off in the garden centre to see the puppys!! They were so cute! You can just ask one of the staff if we can see a puppy and they would get them out to so we can play with them, There was this one gorgous puppy who liked playing with the ends of my jeans. Then we played with another one and it pooped and weed right next to me, Great(!) We came home and played a load more games! Terry came home and played one game with us, it took about an hour to play when usually it should only take about 20mins. It was great fun. The day was gone before we knew it, then we had dinner and watched the film that we rented.

Monday 27th April - Day 4

2009-04-27T23:41:00.004+01:00

Today Emily and I went to the mall. First we wanted to have a coffee in a cafe, well i had a hot chocolate. I bought loads of bits and bob from the mall. we were there for ages just walking around.Emily got a massage. That was nice for her. Anyway then Terry, Emily and I went to Emily's friend's house for dinner, with her husband and children too. That was lovely, she gave me some brownies to take home. yummy. Then we came home and I went straight to sleep.

Sunday 26th April - Day 3

2009-04-27T13:31:00.002+01:00

Today was great fun! Well, we went to church, to Emily and Terry's church. We went out for brunch! I had fried egg, fries, sausages, toast and bread and in America the food is twice as big as everywhere else. YUM YUM! We went to the hardware store (well 2 of them) on the way home. When we got home we played loads of outside games for a few hours, that was fun! Then Emily and Terry went to Bible study and they dropped me off at Terry's mum, Lorraines house on the way. We took Heidi to the doggy park (Lorraine has a lovely Labpoodle) She is gorgeous! Heidi had loads of fun at the doggy park. It was nice for me too to see all the dogs there. Then Emily and Terry picked me up and on our way home, we stopped off at Wendy's Burger place. Yummy. Then we drove home and I went sraight to bed.

Saturday 25th April - Day 2

2009-04-26T13:47:00.003+01:00

Today we drove down town to chicago - its about an hour away. We went to shopping!! I bought a couple of things. We strolled around for hours, we then bought some tickets for a show for the evening called Urinetown! Then we went to a Tai restaurant just around the corner from the theatre before it started. It was a lovely meal. Then watched the show at 730. It was actually very good but very silly! Then drove home and went to bed - i fell asleep in the car on the way home.

Friday 24 April - Day 1

2009-04-25T02:18:00.002+01:00

Today was nice, went to bible study with Emily this morning, we came home and sat outside on the deck for a while playing a game until it got too hot! It was about 72 degrees F. Then this evening Me, Emily, Terry's mum and Grampa went out to a sea food restaurant called the red lobster. But me, hating sea food was unfortunate but there was a few chicken dishes which was gorgeous! Now im home and ready for bed!

Wednesday 22nd April

2009-04-22T20:52:00.002+01:00

Off to USA tomorrow morning, leaving at 6am. All packed and ready to go. Just off to bed now.

Friday 24th April - Getting here!

2009-04-24T12:57:00.003+01:00

I'm here! Got here yesterday evening at 630 but here it was 1230 pm. I'm not Jet lagged yet. It's really nice- Terry's house is gorgeous! I woke up at 4 o clock this morning thinking it was 10 o clock British time. I'm sure it will all kick in later this afternoon.

Tuesday 21st April

2009-04-21T19:20:00.001+01:00

I changed my Euros into Dollars this afternoon!! It feels more real now and after packing. This time in 2 days i'll be in Chicago :-)

Sunday 19th April

2009-04-19T22:36:00.008+01:00

Last night was really nice!! Michael and I went out for an Indian and then out for a drink, it was very spontanious, we dressed up too, it was lovely:

Then today was really nice too, we went to waterford city to look aroung the shops and had a milkshake, then on the way home we went to wexford to the windmill farm and walked about a mile on the beach to see the windmills. But every metre we took the windmills seemed to get further and further away. So when we got near enough, we got too tired and walked back. There were these big banks of sand that we slid down, that was great fun!!! Then home we went after a long tiring day:

Friday 17th April

2009-04-17T19:23:00.004+01:00

Well, I'm getting ready to go to Chicago!! This time next week ill be there! I leave Thursday morning :-) Need to get loads of stuff done and need to buy a few bits and bobs. I'm going for 16 days. I've got the weekend off this weekend and then i'm working on Monday and Wednesday, and babysitting for someone else on Tuesday morning - bit of extra cash for holiday. Then i'm going, so I only have the weekend to do everything!