I got Game

We are off to the American Ailines Centre tonight to watch the Dallas Mavericks play. Yay!
Suzy bought me tickets for Christmas to match the Cowboy tickets she got me last year.

It's gonna be great. I've never been to a basketball game before, I'm so excited.

This was the view on Christmas morning. Beautiful sun through Pecan trees. It turned out to be 70 degrees and like a summer day.

Santa Claus is coming..

A question for all the Americans amongst you...

Why do you add the tax onto prices after you purchase them? We have 17.5% tax added into the price of goods in Britain and so when it says on the label, 30 pounds (damn American keyboard doesn't have a pound sign on it!) then it means 30 pounds.
Here in America, if the tag says $20 then that means you pay something stupid, like $21.32 (whatever) and you get bucket loads of coins as change.
The American economy could benefit from having tax worked into the prices so that if you buy something from a dollar shop it actually costs a dollar! and you don't have to make so many quarters and dimes to give people in change.

Anywho.. Merry Christmas y'all and I'll see you on the other side of a huge turkey dinner. We bought our own crackers (not familiar with crackers? I'll tell ya later) They don't sell crackers in Texas so we risked smuggling explosives(!) onto the plane.

Baby, It's Cold Outside.

It's 74 degrees F here in Texas and we chose the hot day to travel to the Gaylord Texan Hotel to see 'Ice' , a collection of ice sculptures kept in 9 below zero temperatures. It was very impressive and the hotel is so big... Evertything bigger in Texas.










We went to see King Kong. He dies in the end.... which is just as well because for one minute, there, it looked like we were heading for a beastiality flick!

Shopping til I'm dropping.

Christmas countdown continues. The sun is out today. There is a real drought here in this part of Texas.
There has only been 0.08" of rain in the Dallas area and the authorities are on fire alert.

It rained yesterday but that was just light derrr-rizzle.
We went to Best Buy and Target yesterday and a shopping mall the day before.

It amazes me how 'empty' the shops are. Compared with English shops in the run up to Christmas, the mall are quite. It is much more fun shopping here at Xmas time than in hustling, bustling England.
I'm sure as I speak that there are cases of trolley-rage hitting the UK as the tension heats up at home.

Have a nice day, y'all.

Lazy Sunday

It was a catch-up weekend. Catch up on sleep.
Saturday night we went to visit some friends of Jim. Jim lives with Suzy's mum and it was his son-in-laws suprise birthday in Colleyville, North of Fort Worth.

It was weird going to a suprise party for someone you don't know. We ended up chatting 'soccer', Royal Family and having to dispell the myth that 'Rock School' with Gene Simmons was a true reflection on UK education.

I spent all day Sunday watching NFL. The Cowboys put in a stinko performance and I wished I'd gone with Suzy to watch Narnia at the cinema.

Off to the Mall today. The weather is grey and chilly.... just like home. A truly hospitable welcome by the Texans......supplying British weather for us, how kind of them.

Yee Harr!!

I have arrived safe and sound. The jet-lag has been taken care of with an 11 hour sleep-fest.

On the plane I watched Goal, which is a slightly cheesy football film set in Newcastle and involves an inconcievable rags to riches story. Big Dipper Star rating ***

The 40 yearold Virgin was laugh out loud funny but with a lot of swearing and heavy sex references, including beastiality, it did make me wonder what would happen if the kids weren't able to sit within censoring distance of us. BD stars = ****

Then I watched Batman Begins which was... ho hum. Better than some Batman films but not my cup of tea really. BD stars = ***

I didn't watch Mrs Hendersons Presents or A Cinderella Story. The latter being praised by Sooz as a great film which, for a boxing film, must have been good to get her vote. Sooz Stars = *****

The DFW new International Terminal is very impressive. Absolutely huge but .. empty. Because it was so large it seems like our plane was the only arrival in one of the largest airports in the country.

The taxi driver was a Matthew McMCounaghy sound-a-like. He was very entertaining and a very laid back soul who was dreaming of winning the lottery and chilling out by the coast.
He promised that whoever was in his viechle when he found out he wins would be very lucky people. Needless to say he the good news never filtered through.

I'm leaving on a jetplane...

Off to DFW tomorrow morning so this is my last post before I get to the Land of the Free(refills).

I'm not keen on flying. Hurtling through the air at 600mph in a tube for 10 hours is not my idea of fun but hey.... it's better than hurtling through the air in a tube at 900mph towards the ground for 2 minutes!

I'll see y'all on the other side.. of the pond

My Next Purchase

I'm thinking of getting one of these keyboards....
If they can just get a mouse I can easily use with my left hand then I'm sorted.

Texas Xmas

God's own country.... I'm on my way.

Heading out to Texas this Friday. A Texas Ex-mas at the mother-in-laws.

She is a very kind lady who is very generous to us. She is always pleased to see her grand-children (Suzy's kids)

My children stay with their mum back here in England. It makes my heart sink that I don't get to see them around Christmas. We will have them to stay over when we get back and they can have some great American prezzies that we bring back for them.


Anyway y'all. Keep an eye out for pictures of our Texas Christmas and blogging from America.

You may have noticed.... I'M BACK.

I installed a wireless ADSL Router at work so I am able to get blogging when times are slack. This time of year it is VERY slack. *yawn*

Blog Slacker

Hi, People. x

Sorry I have been neglecting the blog. I have a wireless ADSL connection to set up at work. Just waiting for the line to be Broadbanded. Soon buddies...soon.

It's all go at work...not as bad as I thought but very hectic at times.

I'll get blogging again soon.... promise

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