Yesterday it was my birthday party. We headed out of the house at around 3:15 and got to our destination a little later. We went to the cinema, but there wasn't much I waned to see, so we went and saw Three And Out, which was alright. Afterwards we headed to Nando's, only to discover it was packed. Instead we went to Miso Noodle Bar which is really quite cool. I had rice with beef, chicken, prawns, veg and a sauce. It was really nice. That night we stayed up watching Naruto, The X-Files (which scared Zoe :P), Doctor Who and Meet The Fockers. The next day we had breakfast and played a few games, one of which was called Clay To Win, which is where there are two teams and a sculptor in each team, and the sculptor has to sculpt something out of play-dough and the other person has to guess. It was a really fun party ^^ I got a Cult album and a HMV giftcard, which I will probably spend on Soundgarden.

Happy Birthday to me!

Today I listened to AC/DC's Back In Black, which I had already heard in full before, thanks to Planet Rock. I also listened to half of The Cult's Love (I only listened to half since by the time I had listened to that it was 10 and I needed to come on here, post my blog & go to bed) but it's a good album so far, great vocals, great guitar.

It's my birthday today too but I only got presents from my sister which were a white owl statuette and a money box, so now I have three money boxes :P. I'm getting a new watch since my current one I've had since year 2 :P. I love doing the :P face today for some reason :P.

California

I was up at like 6 a week ago on Monday. By 8 I was at the airport and waiting to go through customs and stuff. We finally boarded the plane and *yay* a 10 hour flight. But all the seats had little interactive screens in the back of them and it was so cool as you could choose what movie/tv show/album you wanted to watch/listen to. I started off by watching This is Spinal Tap, as it was one of the movies on my 'to see' list (which has A LOT of movies on it). It was hilarious. After that I tried to go to sleep, but failed, so I watched the new St. Trinians, which was alright. I again tried to go to sleep but failed (stupid uncomfortable aeroplane seats) so I watched the first episode of Pushing Daisies (even though dad was recording it for me) and it was ohsocute. It's so colourful and happy and bouncy. ^_^ I also listened to INXS's 'Kick'.

When we arrived at the airport in San Francisco my luggage wasn't there. Damn terminal 5. We waited for ages after everyone had gone (5 other people didn't have their luggage). It still didn't turn up, so me, a year 8 and a teacher got into a taxi and drove to our hotel. It was sunny and San Francisco is beautiful; the bay is gorgeous. Since we arrived later than everyone else there was no time for a quick nap; and I was feeling somewhat jetlagged. We all headed out to dinner at Neptune's Palace on Pier 39. The tablecloth was made of paper and there were crayons on the table so we drew all over it. I had some prawn salad for dinner. Hell, this is going to be one long blog post.

It was Tuesday and today was the day we were going shopping in SF. Everyone went to Abercrombie and Fitch and everyone (apart from me) bought something. (I hate clothes shopping; so so boring. Go music shopping!) I ended up buying some Converses ($40=£20=half the price of England!) and some music CDs (Cult - Love, Electric, INXS - Kick [because I liked what I heard on the plane] and AC/DC - Back in Black).

After shopping we headed for Tahoe, but we did not stop at the shopping outlets on the way. The drive through the mountains was beautiful. We arrived, had dinner and went to bed. Our room had some cute kitchen area like the one when we went to Canada.

Breakfast was great - I discovered a love for waffles and maple syrup. Mmm... maple syrup... I want some dammit. I also had Froot Loops for the first time in seven years! I love their colourfulness even though they taste really really weird.

The first half of Day 1 of skiing was boring as we learnt snow ploughs and snow plough turns which I already knew. The second half we got to go down a nursery slope which was fun. Over the week I progressed onto harder green slopes and eventually blue slopes. No black slopes I'm afraid, but I probably would have managed to go way to fast and crash into a tree and die if I went on one. Saying that, someone did crash into a tree and hurt their knee, and another had to have stitches in her head.

The village behind our hotel was really cute and it had an ice cream shop and a chocolate shop and all these little cute stores as well as some clothing ones. I bought a Lake Tahoe hoodie, a mug and a couple of magnets for me and my sister. We bought some avalanche bark from the chocolate shop (which sounds disgusting but it is rice crispies and marshmallows and chocolate chips and stuff) and we also bought some oreos in white chocolate. We bought loads of food and we made jelly in a frying pan (as we had made more jelly in all of the glasses).

One evening we ate at the Hard Rock Cafe which was great, they had all these guitars and items of clothing owned by various rockstars. The rest of time we ate at a buffet.

I woke up yesterday and it was time to head off for the airport. On the way we stopped and I went to Taco Bell. I even have the receipt to prove it :P. On the way back on the aeroplane I watched I Am Legend and Léon. Then I actually managed to get to sleep. It was a great holiday. I would write more but I really cannot be bothered and you're probably bored by now. Besides, I need to go catch up on Doctor Who and the roman episode with the cambridge latin course people.

California!!!!!!!!!

I'm going to California tomorrow - yay!

It snowed this morning and I was just like OMGWTFBBQ because it is April and it was warm last week and yeah... So I ate my breakfast quickly and was out at like 8 making snowmen with my sister, which my brother eventually kicked over. The snow then melted, but I still think there is a little snowman mound of snow still out in the garden.

The last song I heard on the radio was the Cult's 'Edie', and now I really really want the 'Love' album (yes I know Edie isn't on Love, it's on Sonic Temple') and have been doing so for a year now. I hope I can get it cheap in California...

Nothing much else eventful happened today apart from packing for California. I've never been to America before (I've been to Canada twice though) so I'm really excited. And theres going to be loads of snow in Lake Tahoe (well not in the lake, but around it) so I guess England snowed today because it wanted to get me ready... Well I have my book to read on the flight, and yes it is IT (as mentioned in a previous post). I have also packed most of my clothes in my hand luggage as I am not trusting BA with their creepy Terminal 5. But wish me luck for tomorrow, :P.

Movie

I am always thinking about if my life were a movie, what camera angles would the different scenes be shot at/what music would go in what scene. The song with the scene usually ends up being whatever is in my head at the time, so me kayaking would have Velvet Revolver's 'Slither' to it. And I only had 'Slither' in my head due to the Guitar Hero 3: Legends of Rock advert. How I wish I had Guitar Hero. I asked my dad a year ago if he could get it and he still hasn't got it. Arghh.

We break up from school tomorrow, but my school has decided it will be a uniform day with lessons. Screw them. BUT it's California in four days time and I really need to do some Art and DT and practice my guitar now. Tomorrow is the season finale of Torchwood and then Doctor Who starts at some early time which is annoying because I'm used to watching it at 7pm.

our form teacher... the Who..?

As I walked down the corridor towards our form room this morning I was greeted with The Who's 'My Generation'. This I found rather weird as I was convinced my form tutor only liked rubbish music, but you never know. Anyway I have AC/DC's 'Thunderstruck' stuck in my head, which I don't hear very often and has a great riff.

I finished my London photo manipulated image painting today, but I still have loads of homework to do and I need to finish my batik. The teachers weren't here today so I couldn't do it. I also had three cover lessons today.

I am using the laptop at the moment and it is so hard to type on as the keyboard is really flat and thin and I'm not used to it. Bleh.

I am actually quite proud of myself. I have (almost) learnt to play 'On Top Of Old Smokey' on the guitar. And I was reading tab, which I have never done before. I'm so happy. :)

We had a french test today which was bleurgh. In art, I managed to get nothing done because the fabric I was using just got stuck to the table and then our teacher told me it was not good to use that material as it was like a mesh. It really annoyed me, plus the fact we didn't get another lesson for batik.

On a happier note, it's my birthday in 16 days! Woo! A girl in my DT class who I sit on the same table as has the same birthday me, so she's always counting down. I don't know what I want for birthday, maybe a few DVDs? CDs? I want to see Twin Peaks as it's just one of those cult TV shows, but some idiot on the net had to go and post the bloody ending, so I know what happens. I still want to see it though. Speaking of TV, I need to go and watch some more X Files.