My Trip to America

Sorry I couldn't post anything because everytime I have the time to write anything I won't have wi - fi. But finally this is how my trip has been going so far.

The plane was okay. I watched a couple of movies to make the time run by quick but the games were a rubbish. The flight to Brisbane, Australia was about 3 and 1/2 hours with no entertainment screen on the back of the seat. The airline I flew on was Virgin Australia and instead of having entertainment screens, they used an app and wi - fi. There is an app on Google Play and the App Store called Entertainment - Virgin Australia. And when you open it on your tablet or phone, you can access all their movies, music, and the flight path. So that was great.

And the flight from Brisbane, Australia to Los Angeles, USA was the longest but definitely the best. They had entertainment screens and gave dinner and breakfast (The meal times changed as we left Brisbane because the time is different in America then in Australia and New Zealand.) But the other great thing was they had a self services snack bar. Though it only had a bag of chips called Ruffles (which is probably a brand of chips in America or something) and a Coke can, it was unlimited. The obviously huge plane had a bar (an actual wine and beer bar) but I don't know if it was only for the Bussiness class to use. And again the airline was Virgin Australia.

We got to LAX in the morning (LAX is the Los Angeles Airport, the X is just some random airport code or something) and one of my relatives picked us up. It was weird becaause we left New Zealand on Tuesday but when we got to America it was still the same Tuesday! It was Fall (Autumn) in America so it wasn't hot, you could imagine a Summer day in Wellington. But the smell was totally different. It smelt like cigarettes and car exhaust smoke. Basically we stayed in L.A. for 2 nights and departed for Dallas. Yes, where Ebola is but we stayed far away from the area, somewhere in Colleyville which is several hours away from the Ebola area.

We were picked up by my cousin at the airport and drove straight to their house. The airport had a lot of random people wearing mouth masks which my cousin thought was funny because apparently the televised Ebola scenes were exaggerated so much and that the US government already had it in control. 

I'm writing this in Dallas so I don't know what will happen next in my trip. But we got to my cousin's house and left our baggage and drove to a formal chinese restaurant to meet my uncle. After we ate we did some shopping and stuff and went sight seeing. But one of the best things we did was go to the street where John F. Kennedy was assassinated. We saw the exact spot where he was first shot, and the second where the fatal shot was taken. We also saw the building and the window where the shooter was. There was a grassy area covered with bushes and trees, and some say there was another assassin hiding there waiting to shoot.

After that we went to an actual Texas style country town, where they had a cattle drive ( A bunch of cowboys riding cattle down the main street.) We ate at a B.B.Q Ribs Buffet, but I didn't eat much because after the appetizer which was corn nuggets I was already full. 

A few days after we went to the new Perot Museum of Nature and Science. It was about 5 floors. the lowest floor was on sports and physics. The high light of that floor is the Sports Run. You can race a T Rex, athletes and a cheetah. My brother and I raced a T Rex but we out runned it. ( The T Rex, athletes, etc. were on a screen beside the race track, not real or robotic.

We explored the rest of the museum, it had rooms on Energy, Minerals and Gemstones, Elctronics (Robots etc.), astronomy, and birds. Overall the museum was fantastic. Porbably better than Te Papa.

After that we ate at a hotel. 

I have a few more days left in Dallas, but when we fly back to L.A. we drive to SanDiego to go to Lego Land and Sea World and stuff. So that is what has happened in my trip so far.

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I also had Halloween in Colleyville, a small city in Dallas as I said. I borrowed by cousin's Batman mask and we went around the neighbourhood and we got a lot of the American candy that you wouldn't normally get in New Zealand.