Sunday, November 25, 2012

Road Trip

We went to Little Rock on our way to Memphis. We went to this really good Japanese restaurant where  a guy who was really funny made our dinner in front of us. When he put the oil on it made a big fire!


Then we left to Memphis where we went to Graceland. Graceland is where Elvis Presley lived. We saw Elvis' mansion, his cars and his private jets. Once, when he realised that his daughter Lisa hadn't seen snow before, he flew with her to Colorado to see the snow. She played there for an hour and then they flew home. There is a room in the mansion where you aren't allowed to go because Elvis wanted it to be kept private. My favourite room was the downstairs lounge room. It had mirrors everywhere, even on the ceiling and it had three TVs. We saw all his gold records and his costumes and I saw his grave. It was pretty sad to know he had been playing the piano in his pool room the morning that he died.

Xavier and I both bought blue , suede shoes in Memphis just like in Elvis's song.

Now we are in Jackson (the place, not Jackson Boyden!).

Wednesday, November 21, 2012

Texas

Over the past few days we've been in Texas. We have been to Austin, Dallas and San Antonio.


Today we are going shooting which is pretty funny because at home I'm not even allowed to play with toy guns! My sister Sophie knows where the gun place is because she's been living here for 3 months.
Yesterday I really enjoyed San Antonio. We went on a river walk and it was really fun.
And I have seen lots of squirrels. They run up the trees and along the power lines. I was the first person to spot a guy with a gun who isn't a policeman. He was just a regular man in a car park.
So far I've bought two baseball caps. One for the Dallas Cowboys and one for the Texas Longhorns.