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The USA blog deserved an old update, since i'm staying in chilling tonight before i go pump iron lifting bricks or something tomorrow....

....which i'm actually looking forward to. I'd normally hate doing building crap like this, but even as we fry in the heat and suffocate in the humidity, i'm looking forward to it. Should be good due to the fact that it's with 19 other Irish.

So, where'd i get to?? Hiking on Friday was great, Hunter the Explorer got me some weird leaves to eat, as well as sighting a bear and going on the hunt for snakes. It was like a 3 hour bus journey, but who cares?? We had good craic & an iPod on the cards. The views at the top of the mountain were awesome, could see into other states such as Virginia & Tenessee. It also gave the leg muscles a bit of well needed pumping. On the way home we also tried Bojangles....enough said on that!

Saturday consisted of doing whatever we wanted. For us that was a lie in until like 12, pool, then mall. The pool was cool. A group of 4 Americans totally owned me, JME, Reuben & Stevie at pool basketball (even with our 10 point handicap at the beginning). The mall was like a full on city...but had no damn CD shop. You see, i have hundreds of dollars on me, and i plan to blast it all out on good old cheap CD's. Niall managed to get 11 for under $40 at the flee market...awesome. And before you ask, yea, they are actually CD's with good music on them.

So, with nothing to do on Sat. night, we just went home and chilled til we found something to do. That something was pretty much meeting up with half the group to go see Million Dollar Baby at the outdoor cinema. Score. So we grabbed some pizza, all hopped into Hunter's wagon and set off for wherever it was being shown.
After days of finding radio stations that played nothing but crap, we found a fully awesome one. If you are ever within a 253 mile radius of Raleigh NC, tune into 106.2 FM, it plays good music all the way.

So anyways, we all watched that movie in the night heat. And it is a class movie. Sad yea, but really well done. Who ever thought a boxing film could be good??
After there were big traffic jams as everyone left, so we waited up. Stevie & i had a "race" in the forest, which i truly won. Hunter, on the other hand, decided to "race" in style, and ended half way up a tree in the car park. Enough said. It was possibly one of the funniest things ever, and the guys will agree.

Hunter cleared off to ASP today (another habitat thing til Sat.) but he better be back. Coz i know where he keeps his shotgun. Today we impressed Americans at the Church with our Irishness, then like half the group whizzed round the art museum for no reason, then headed to another pool, which was fun. Though some people need no practise on their "Sitting Priests". As do i on the old backflips lol.....

After that we went to the supermarket with Susan (our host mom), and got what we wanted to eat. Jame & i found some Chips Ahoy. We only got one box for now, but we'll be back to raid the place before we leave. Well at least i will.
I did watch quite a bit of TV earlier, and it totally kicked ass. Loads of choice. The Simpsons, coverage of Hurrican Dennis, James Bond, and COPS, all at the same time?!?! Scoreage....