Post by Jeff on Apr 9, 2008 18:00:54 GMT -5
Hey Guys. It's been a while, so I thought I'd bring my old friends a visit and tell them a bit about my USA experience 
!! I wanted to let you all know that I went to America, and share what I've seen etc. Although I love in The Netherlands I flew from Düsseldorf, Germany to LAX (which the US customs didn't seem to understand, lol..).
Once we were there we had to go through the 'US Customs and Border Protection', which was actually pretty strange. My parents, brother and sister got through and had no problems at all. However, when they slipped my passport through the machine, it took a little longer. Then I was told that I had to wait, because 'they' wanted to talk to me. After waiting for a little while a man asked me to walk with him. He took me into a room and asked me a lot of questions; where I go to school, what my parents do for a living etc. etc. I also had to take off my shoes, lol. When he asked me that I replied "I've just been on a 12 hour flight, I don't think that'll do good to the environment". Bad move, they don't like jokes there ;D. After a while they let me go, I still have no idea why he asked me all of those questions. They told me that my passport had a lot of comparisons with a reported stolen passport, though I don't believe that
. Another funny thing; the US government has my fingerprint, but my own government doesn't, haha!
We rented a car at Alamo. The Toyota Sienna. What a comfortable car! Too bad they don't sell it in Europe..!
But let's go back to what I've actually seen of that beautiful country!
We started off in El Segundo, LA. Stayed at the 'Hacienda at LAX' hotel, nothing special.
Not really much to do there in El Segundo, I must say! We just walked around a bit and went to bed early, because of the jetlag.
From there we went to Anaheim, stayed at the Radisson, which was a quite nice hotel! We (me, my sis and little brother) all wanted to go to Disneyland, but for some reason my parent's didn't want to :S. And what else is there to do in Anaheim except to go to Disneyland? So also that was kind of lame..
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I am going to bed now. I'll finish up the story bit-by-bit. I'll add some this week probably.
There is more to come.. As I said, I had a great time. Which probably doesn't seem to right now ;P. But I'm not even on the half of my story
.
!! I wanted to let you all know that I went to America, and share what I've seen etc. Although I love in The Netherlands I flew from Düsseldorf, Germany to LAX (which the US customs didn't seem to understand, lol..). Once we were there we had to go through the 'US Customs and Border Protection', which was actually pretty strange. My parents, brother and sister got through and had no problems at all. However, when they slipped my passport through the machine, it took a little longer. Then I was told that I had to wait, because 'they' wanted to talk to me. After waiting for a little while a man asked me to walk with him. He took me into a room and asked me a lot of questions; where I go to school, what my parents do for a living etc. etc. I also had to take off my shoes, lol. When he asked me that I replied "I've just been on a 12 hour flight, I don't think that'll do good to the environment". Bad move, they don't like jokes there ;D. After a while they let me go, I still have no idea why he asked me all of those questions. They told me that my passport had a lot of comparisons with a reported stolen passport, though I don't believe that
. Another funny thing; the US government has my fingerprint, but my own government doesn't, haha!We rented a car at Alamo. The Toyota Sienna. What a comfortable car! Too bad they don't sell it in Europe..!
But let's go back to what I've actually seen of that beautiful country
! We started off in El Segundo, LA. Stayed at the 'Hacienda at LAX' hotel, nothing special.
Not really much to do there in El Segundo, I must say! We just walked around a bit and went to bed early, because of the jetlag.
From there we went to Anaheim, stayed at the Radisson, which was a quite nice hotel! We (me, my sis and little brother) all wanted to go to Disneyland, but for some reason my parent's didn't want to :S. And what else is there to do in Anaheim except to go to Disneyland? So also that was kind of lame..
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I am going to bed now
. I'll finish up the story bit-by-bit. I'll add some this week probably.There is more to come.. As I said, I had a great time. Which probably doesn't seem to right now ;P. But I'm not even on the half of my story
.