California show you teeth

Its saturday, and I've been with my mom for over a week now.
She arrived in La Crosse Thursday evening, June 3rd. Here's a summary over what we've been up to the last week or so:
FRIDAY JUNE 4TH: We got up relatively early and went "to school". Since i got done with school Tuesday of the same week it didn't really feel like going to school, it was more like hanging out at a school. We met most of my teachers, and we also met most of my friends around school as they were walking between classes or eating lunch. At lunchtime my mom, Patrick and I ate at Jimmy John's(aka BigBite). After this my mom and I went to "the mall", and spent 4 (or so??) good hours there. We went home in a hurry before we met Jerry, my last hostdad, at the church right across from my hostfamily's house. Later he took us to The Waterfront, a nice restaurant in downtown La Crosse right on the Mississippi river.
SATURDAY JUNE 5TH: Both Mary (who's my Rotary counselor) and Patrick showed up at our house at 9am and we all jumped into Mary's car and she took us with her to her house - where she has her boat, and we went on the Mississippi river. It was fabulous. In the afternoon we went on Grandad's Bluff, the Pearl, and ate dinner at Grizzly's, and in the evening we went to Cheryl and Savannah's.
SUNDAY JUNE 6TH: GRADUATION! I did not much&nothing around the house before I got ready for graduation and took my cap&gown on, and went to the La Crosse center. The American graduation Ceremony sure was an experience! After this pretty mich everyone I know in La Crosse came to my graduation party at my hostfamily's cabin. Where they had lots of good food, a beach volleyball court and a swimmingpool - it was a great day.
MONDAY JUNE 7TH: My mom and I departed La Crosse at 715am and arrived our hotel in Las Vegas, The Venetian, around noon the same day. We spent the day swimming, laying by the pool, eating, shopping, walking "the streets of Venice", went to Blue Man Show (not a success), and finally walked the Strip at nighttime. We made sure to not miss the watershow (?) at Bellagio of course.
TUESDAY JUNE 8TH: We went to the airport in Vegas and picked up our sweeet Cheverolet rental car, and drove to Grand Canyons. Ate supper in a cute, western/cowboy-themed restaurant in the canyons where a REAL cowboy was playing his banjo, or whatever, and sang.
WEDNESDAY JUNE 9TH: Went to the imax theatre and watched the 30min long video on the Grand Canyons. We went for a walk with a beautiful view over the Grand Canyons before we hopped in the car and headed for Monument Valley. When we got there we enjoyed the amazing view from our very own hotel room before we ate dinner.
THURSDAY JUNE 10TH: We both woke up at 530am to watch the beautiful sunrise (at least my mom did, I stayed in bed and watched an episode of Charmed)....(shame on me, I know). At 8am the Cheverolet rolled out of the Parking lot at our hotel, The View, and we decided our final destination that day would be Victorville, CA. All in all we drove 900km(560miles) that day...... (Shame on us, we know). We ate chinese for supper and went to bed, exhausted.
FRIDAY JUNE 11TH: Hopped in the car relatively early and drove aaaaaaaaaaaall the way to Los Angeles (it took us 1,5 hours). We took a look around the hotel in Santa Monica before we went shopping. We ended the day with an hour or so on a couch in the sun, and then a good 20 minutes in a hot tub.
TODAY! SATURDAY JUNE 12TH: Ate a delicious breakfast (definition of breakfast: waffles, fruit loops, pancakes, strawberries, fresh orange juice, hot chocolate.....), before we rented bikes and biked along the beach for an hour or so. We came back to the hotel and joined a tourist-bus-tour-thing around LA because my mom didn't feel like driving around in the city. The tour was fabolous, and we saw everything I felt like I needed to see in less than 5 hours. We got back to the hotel and spent another hour wearing swimsuits in the sun before we topped it all off in the hot tub, again.

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