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Yesterday was mainly spent on the Strip going "Ooh!" and "Ahh!" and occasionally "Eh???", whilst marvelling at the oversimplification of quite ordinary things Vs the vast exaggeration of others, and taking far too many pictures of New York New York. In contrast, today has mainly been about watching American telly, deciding whether to go to IHOP for lunch, and having a satisfyingly longwinded discussion about UK/American politics, and what wanting to vote Conservative in the UK but Democrat in the USA says about us or our cultures. In addition, I have consumed the following nice things:
// A vast burger with portobello mushrooms, baby spinach and crispy bacon
// Crab-cake eggs benedict
// strawberry lemonade
// raspberry iced tea
// margheritas
// Cucumber and dill houmous
Michelle and Richard's house is amazing, but has this weird warm air heating, which instantly rises to the top of the house and means the downstairs is cold. Unfortunately, the thermostat then goes "Oh, it's cold down here!", and pumps in more warm air, so upstairs is like a furnace and you have to add or remove layers every time you use the staircase!
We are doing lots of dog-walking and I am reading a weird book that Pete has let me borrow called War of the Flowers (possibly by Tad Williams), which is pleasingly odd so far and has one of those "familiar but different" societal settings that makes modern fantasy so enjoyable.
Tomorrow may well involve an indoor roller-coaster and possibly the Ethel M factory tour, which I am reliably informed ends in a free sample of chocolate.
It's quite cold here, but the air is super-dry (thanks for the warning A!) and I keep glugging water and drinking vast amounts of liquid from my free refills... so luckily there are restrooms about every 20 yards. Seriously. It's like they're making a tax on them or something. Oh, speaking of which you can't ever take prices at face value because they add a 7% "Nevada tax" to everything at the till, and you are expected to tip 20% at restaurants. 20%!! Still, you can pretty much translate US prices to their UK counterparts by swapping $ for £ rather than dividing by two, it's so much cheaper here.
I wanna live in the USA! But not here in Nevada because it feels like civilization has been temporarily dropped onto the desert until somewhere more sensible can be found.
Apologies for lack of cut but can't remember how to do it and am rushing!!
// A vast burger with portobello mushrooms, baby spinach and crispy bacon
// Crab-cake eggs benedict
// strawberry lemonade
// raspberry iced tea
// margheritas
// Cucumber and dill houmous
Michelle and Richard's house is amazing, but has this weird warm air heating, which instantly rises to the top of the house and means the downstairs is cold. Unfortunately, the thermostat then goes "Oh, it's cold down here!", and pumps in more warm air, so upstairs is like a furnace and you have to add or remove layers every time you use the staircase!
We are doing lots of dog-walking and I am reading a weird book that Pete has let me borrow called War of the Flowers (possibly by Tad Williams), which is pleasingly odd so far and has one of those "familiar but different" societal settings that makes modern fantasy so enjoyable.
Tomorrow may well involve an indoor roller-coaster and possibly the Ethel M factory tour, which I am reliably informed ends in a free sample of chocolate.
It's quite cold here, but the air is super-dry (thanks for the warning A!) and I keep glugging water and drinking vast amounts of liquid from my free refills... so luckily there are restrooms about every 20 yards. Seriously. It's like they're making a tax on them or something. Oh, speaking of which you can't ever take prices at face value because they add a 7% "Nevada tax" to everything at the till, and you are expected to tip 20% at restaurants. 20%!! Still, you can pretty much translate US prices to their UK counterparts by swapping $ for £ rather than dividing by two, it's so much cheaper here.
I wanna live in the USA! But not here in Nevada because it feels like civilization has been temporarily dropped onto the desert until somewhere more sensible can be found.
Apologies for lack of cut but can't remember how to do it and am rushing!!