Saturday, December 19, 2009

Home, Jr. High, and Grandparents

We have been home for 1 1/2 weeks, and I just finished my first week of Jr. High School. I am going to Santa Barbara Jr. High, which has 700 more kids than my school in Mexico, which only had 50. My favorite teacher is Mr. Z, our history teacher. We watched Napolean Dynamite in his class yesterday while we were finishing or projects. We decided not to visit my grandparents this year, even though they got four feet of snow, so they came here.

Saturday, December 5, 2009

Fireworks

Yesterday night there was a ceremony in Plaza de Armas; They were crowning the "Christmas Queen". We didn't watch that, but we came back at  9:30 to see the fireworks. they had made this big metal structure that had lots of spinning wheels and stuff that they set on fire. There was a fence around it, but it just kept the crowd about a meter away from the explosions. It was sending fireworks into the crowd and setting the stuff that fell off of it onto the ground on fire. At one point the S in one of the words didn't go off on time, and a guy had to climb up the flaming thing and light it on fire, but he didn't have time before it ended and the other fireworks started. After everything was over, the S exploded in flames and startled everyone around it. Dad thought it was extremely funny.

Sunday, November 22, 2009

León

Yesterday we went to a science museum in León. They had some cool stuff, like a static electricity machine, a echo chamber, and a 3-D movie I saw before on a field trip to LA. The movie was about a story that scientists made out of these fossils they found.  They had found some amazing fosslils of huge sea monsters that died with their pray still inside them. There was also this towers of Hanoi puzzle that I figured out with Dad's help. There was this contraption with a bunch  of metal rings that spun around that you rode in, called a "Tirotrón", that was really fun. The park outside of the museum had a bunch of train engines that you could could climb around on, too. After the museum we ate at Vips for the thousand-millionth time.

Saturday, October 24, 2009

Rain

It rained really really hard last evening, and we were at a restaurant when it started. It sort of had a plastic roof, so when it started raining we moved to a more sheltered table. We were just in time, too. Right when we moved it started raining right over the table we were just at. It had sort of let up a little by the time we were walking home,but we still got pretty wet. I hope it isn't raining like that when my grandparents come.

Friday, October 16, 2009

Sierra Gorda

A week ago we went to the Sierra Gorda, and it was really cool. First we went to this gigantic waterfall where the water was REALLY COLD, and we saw all these cool surreal structures that some random millionaire built, and you can actually go inside them. Here are some pictures:
Surreal flower


centepede


me in the front, our guide in the back


this is. . . . a waterfall.


One of the surreal structures. We went up in the top.

Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Helicopter Thingy

I got this little helicopter thing the other day, the kind where you pull a string and it flies, and it also has little lights on it. It's not that great though. I only flew it a few times, and it's already cracked a little. I guess I almost got it stuck in a balcony of the Gran Hotel, but it's still a pretty cheap toy. I played a little stiring game with Pancho the cat this morning, where I drag a string around on the floor and Pancho pounces on it, and that was really fun. Oh, and I don't have school today because the teachers are having a conference.

Saturday, September 19, 2009

Spraypaint Guy

Yesterday night we went to see a guy who makes really good paintings with spray paint. He makes them right there and people just come and watch him doing it. It's really cool how the pictures emerge on to the paper in less than five minutes. You can also buy them for five dollars, so we got two, one of mountains and a lake and a sunrise, and one of the Peña de Bernal at night. He uses a lot of cool methods to make details he can't do with spray paint, like crumpling up paper and rubbing it on the painting to make mountains and flicking white paint with a toothbrush to make stars, and he really does it well. Here are some videos:




Saturday, September 5, 2009

School in Mexico

Ruth and I are in school now, and now that I'm used to all the new things, like lots of homework and the science teacher locking you out of the classroom if you're late, I'm starting to enjoy it. I haven't had much time to make blog entries, but I am trying to. We went to see a movie in Spanish called Pequeños invasores, and it was very funny. We are having lots of rain, and our house leaks in many places.

Friday, August 21, 2009

Parque Bicentenario again

Yesterday we went to Parque Bicentenario again, and this time the water park was open. here is a picture of Ruth and I going down one of the slides:The slide is very big, but you can't see in it for most of the time, so we only got a picture of this section.

Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Frog thingys and other thingys

There is some sort of competition going on where people make little frog things. Here are a few of my favourite ones:
Graffiti Frog
Sphinx-Frog
Bull-Fighting Frog
A frog is all you need to fly.
Frida Kalho Frog
The Sixth Day
Weird frog
Chocolate frog
This one is all candy wrappers on the outside
This a picture of the inside of our house:
And this is a picture of Pancho the cat:

Sunday, August 16, 2009

Parque Bicentenario (or something)

A couple days ago we went to an amusement park called Parque Bicentenario (or something). I didn't get any pictures, sorry. So we went to the amusement park, and we did the bumper cars (which mom didn't like), a water ride (which mom didn't do), a roller coaster (which mom definitely didn't do), and a big swinging pirate ship (which mom didn't do). When we went on the water ride we thought it would just be one of those wet rides that you just got splashed a little, so we just went in our clothes. Well, when we went around a corner, there was this big ol' waterfall that we went under, and we got really soaked. My watch and dad's cellphone survived, though. the pirate ship was fun; but it sort of just swung back and forth. the one real roller coaster they had was the best thing. It had a upside-down loop and a corkscrew. Ruth and I got to sit in the front car once. Here is a picture I didn't take of the roller coaster:And here is a picture of the pirate ship:

Thursday, August 13, 2009

Mexico Monopoly

A couple of days ago we got a version of monopoly called Mexico Monopoly. It's just like normal monopoly, except the properties are called things like Castillo de Chapultepec and Palacio de Bellas Artes. I like monopoly a lot, and mom and dad are willing to play it with me as long as I do it in Spanish. here is a pictire of a game I played with dad. (I won.)

Sunday, August 9, 2009

Mexico Movie

Yesterday we went to a movie theatre and watched "Ice Age 3" in Spanish. It was about a kind-of stupid sloth, a pair of woolly mammoths, a saber-toothed tiger named Diego, and two possums. They were live in the Ice Age, and the sloth found some dinosaur eggs and then the mommy dinosaur came and took away the sloth and the mammoths and the tiger and the possums had to rescue him. It was very funny.

Wednesday, August 5, 2009

Culture Center

Yesterday we went to the Culture Center, which is this big building that has science exhibits, a playground, a hedge maze that little kids run around in, a library, a kids library, Foosball tables, and some other stuff. First we went to the kids library, but then we saw a sign that said "No prestamos libros", which means you can't check out books. That made us leave pretty quickly. We played Foosball a little, but you have to pay, so we decided it wasn't worth playing more than one game. We spent most of our time in the science exhibits, where they have fun things like echo tubes and tracks that you roll balls down. There were also these big bubble blowing things that you could make enormous bubbles with. Ruth and I had fun making big half-bubbles around each other.

Saturday, August 1, 2009

Mexico!!

We are in Mexico! You probably already know that my parents are doing a program for Westmont College that involves going to Mexico for four months, but if not, now you do. I've been to Mexico twice before, but not for nearly as long as four months. I'm not saying I don't think it's going to be fun, though. We are renting a 400-year-old house, and it's really cool. It's in a strip of houses that are all connected, so from the street it just looks like a wall with a door. On the inside of the house there are two patios that are surrounded by house but don't have roof, which are fun to sit on, like I'm doing now. There is a cat that lives in this house named Pancho that's walking around getting petted, but instead me petting him, he likes me to just hold my had still while he rubs against it. The house is also within walking distance of some good eating places, including our favorite Panederia (bakery) and Churreria (bakery that just sells churros). I might have some pictures of our house soon, I'm not sure.

Monday, July 20, 2009

I'm Bored.

Ruth is at camp, so I can't think of anything to do, so I made this blog entry.

Durango

7/17/09 (I made this blog entry on a text editor in the airport 3 days ago.)

We're in the Durango airport waiting for our plane right now. I'm sorry I didn't make any blog entry s earlier, there was just so much to do. We were visiting my mom's parents who live in Durango, Colorado. For some reason I call them "Nana" and "Papa". They live in a big house about 13 miles from town. They have two barns, a greenhouse, and a tree house with a bed, a bathroom, and a shower. Ruth and I usually sleep in the tree house when we go to their house. Oh, and by the way, it's my birthday. We always do lots of things when we go to Durango. We went horseback riding, we visited my great-aunt (Nana's sister) and swam in her little lake, we went camping, we hiked, and we went canoeing. Ruth and I have been taking horseback riding lessons in the previous years that we came to Durango, and this year we just rode with Papa. I rode a horse named Hershey, Ruth rode Maple, and Papa rode a very slow horse that I forgot the name of. My great-aunt lives by a little lake that we like to play in. When we visit her we like to ride in the rowboat and swim around on inner tubes. This year we also made s'mores. We went on a camping trip near Purgatory Ski run and had a great time. We sang campfire songs, played in the river, and went on a hike. We also went canoeing at Lemon lake, which is a bazillion times bigger than my great aunt's lake. I never went inside the canoe, though; I was towed on an inner tube. That was very fun. Oh, and one more thing. Papa taught Ruth and me how to shoot a gun. We got to shoot his .22 at a log in the backyard. Yep, going to Nana and Papa's house was really fun.

Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Lake Michigan

6/23/09 (I should have made this blog entry earlier, but I never got around to it)
Yesterday we went to my Grandad's house, which is about an hour from my Grandma's house and right next to lake Michigon. My Grandad has two small black dogs named Scarpa and Ladoux. They like to bark, eat, and play fetch. (Not much else) I played hide and seek with Ben, and then we went to the lake. If you wade out a couple yards into the water there is sort of a sandbar that is underwater but shallower than the water right next to the bank. Ruth and I found some nice big peices of driftwood that we played with for a long time. We pretended that mine was an aircraft carrier and Ruth's was a cruise ship. We also found a rubber dog toy that looked like a baby fish and pretended it was a monster.

Improv Play

6/20/09 (I should have made this blog entry earlier, but I never got around to it)
Nick and Muriel are improv actors, which is like being an actor, but you make up the play as you go along. We didn't get to go to one of their shows, but we went to one, and it was fun. The one we went to was a kids show that had "audience perticipation". At the beginning of the play, the narrator asked the audience what their favorite place was, and one kid shouted "Navy Peir!". We got to dress up the actors, and sometimes they would call kids out of the audience to be a character in the play. It ended up being about a indian boy who went to Navy Peir and had to follow his destiny which was to become a ballerina. At one point one of the main characters in the play, a tourist from Shomberg said somthing like "Chicago ain't no place like Shomberg" and Ben shouted out "That's a double negative!". So later the actors called Ben up to the stage to be the ghost of rules. Ben did a good job of it and Mom cracked up.

Ben

6/19/09 (I should have made this blog entry earlier, but I never got around to it)
Did I mention that I'm one of ten guests at my grandma's house? Let's see, there's my 26-year old cousin Muriel, her boyfriend Nick, my 8-year old cousin Ben, my mom, dad, and sister (Ruth), Ben's parents (Aunt Lora and Uncle Tom), Aunt Liz (Muriel's mom), and Me. 11 guests if you count Uncle Craig, who doesn't sleep at Grandma's house. Nick, Muriel, and Aunt Liz sleep in the basement, Ben sleeps in the studio (Grandma's an artist), Mom and Dad sleep in the front room upstairs, Ruth sleeps in the attic on a cool day, and on a hot day waits for Ben to fall asleep in the hallway and then sleeps in the studio. (Ben says I'M BOERD loudly until he falls asleep, preferably with the light on.) Aunt Lora and Uncle Tom sleep in the guest bedroom (Lucky!), and I sleep in Grandma's bedroom. It is a very lively house. My cousin Ben, as I mentioned eirlier, is only 8 years old, but he's already even more of a nerd than me in some ways. Right when Ben got here he told us that he figured out the fibinocci numbers in base 8. (Don't ask me to explain the fibonacci numbers to you) Then he went upstairs to "Check out the book situation". He sounded just like his dad when he said that. He can also be annoying at times. If you interrupt him in one of his "speeches", he jumps up and down screaming EXCUSE ME EXCUSE ME EXCUSE ME I'M TRYING TO TALK TO YOU!! It seems like he can't raise his voice without yelling. He's a nice kid, though. He really likes playing a game we call "Weakneses" in the basement. I got the idea for it when we found to old broken phones in the basement, the kind with the spinning dials. The game had lots of levels, and on each level Ben had to deafeat an evil Andy. The evil Andy would always had a weakness, and Ben could dial "operator" to get hints on what the weakness was. Then, useing that weakness, Ben would try to deafeat me. For example, on one level Andy's weakness was that he loved Ice Cream, so Ben put a small beach ball on top of a cup and gave it to me. I pretended to think it was Ice Cream, so while I was distracted, Ben hit me on the head and deafeated me.

Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Making Masks

Well, this is our second day in Chicago, unless you count the half day at the beginning. It's sort of a tradition to make clay masks at my grandma's house, and so she has a whole bunch of neat homemade masks made by my relatives hanging on her dining room wall. Ruth and I each made one last year, but we didn't like them that much, so this year we're making new ones. I just finished making mine, but I haven't painted it yet. I was going to make a evil guy, but it just turned out to be a chubby guy with a mustache. Grandma's house is way more interesting then ours. She's an artist, and she makes lots of great paintings and hangs them on every inch of wall she can find. She has been living here for a long time, and if you dig around in the basement you can find all sorts of cool stuff. I found an old-fashioned shock ring that vibrates when you shake someone's hand, the change machine my dad used when he ran an ice cream truck, and treasure like that. I've been petting Grandma's dog Zoey a lot, as usual, we went to the art institute yesterday, and we ate lunch at at a little park next to the art institute form the same place we ate at last year (the same park, even!), Max's takeout. Here is a link to the blog entry I made last year when we ate at Max's Takeout: LINK

Friday, June 12, 2009

John's Lab

One of my Sunday School teachers has a lab at UCSB. We got to go there today. He is working on developing a cheap way to make semi-conductors. We got to see lots of interesting liquids and microscopes and fancy equipment. He even made a piece of silicon (which just looks like black metal) to change into different colors. I got to go in the clean room with him and we made a microscopic pattern on a piece of silicon. It was very interesting.

Wednesday, May 27, 2009

I cant't think of a good title.

They're putting the showers into the frames of the houses that they have started, it looks pretty funny. Oh, and mom got a Wii for Dad's birthday. He was surprised, because he was always the one saying let's get a Wii, let's get a Wii, let's get a Wii, and Mom was always saying We don't need a Wii, we don't need a Wii, we don't need a Wii. Mom also picked a random video game off the shelf and it turned out to be really good. I can't think of anything else to say, besides that I'm useing a school computer and the backspace isn't working.

Saturday, April 4, 2009

Magic Mountain

I know I haven't made a blog entry for a million years, it's just that there's so many other things to do. I apologize to anybody who might be reading this. Yesterday Dad and Ruth and I went to Magic Mountain. I had a very good time. It was basically the first amusement park I've ever been to, unless you count the time we went to Disneyland when I was 3. The first thing we did was bumper cars, and and it was so empty at first that when our turn ended we just started a new turn without getting out of our bumper cars. Then we did Superman, which is a roller coaster that just goes straight for a little bit and then goes up really high, and then goes backwards once it gets to the top. It was very noisy. We also did the Gold Rusher, which was the first roller coaster that I've ever been on that didn't just go straight, and the first one that we went on that went upside-down was the first roller coaster that ever went upside-down. (It was called the Revolution) We also went on the log ride and the other log ride that you don't ride in log-shaped cars, both of which had a big drop at the end where it takes your picture. The big roller coasters that we went on were Viper, Goliath, Scream, and Batman. We went on Viper twice, and I liked the second time better. Goliath was HUGIE, and it had a REALLY HUGIE drop that went into a underground tunnel at 85 miles per hour. We went on Scream later in the day, when I was more used to the roller coasters, so I didn't scream very much. My least favorite parts of the hugie roller coasters were the parts where you went slowly up higher and higher and higher and you knew you were about to go on a hugie drop. My other least favorite parts of the roller coasters were the twisty upside-down loops that went slowly and you felt like you were going to fall out. Oh, and I forgot to tell you, Dad didn't notice the part on Goliath where you go underground because he was closing his eyes. And another thing I forgot to mention was on the ride called ninja we were waiting in line behind this girl and her dad, and whenever the recording of the guys voice said "Have a fun ride on Ninja. Hiyaah!" the girls dad said "HIYAAAH!". When we got on, the recording said "hiyaah!" and the guy said "HIYAAAH!" and the workers said "hiyah!" and the guy said "HIYAAH!" again. I bet that girl was embarrassed.

Sunday, February 22, 2009

Vehicles

Today I just thought I would post some pictures of the vehicles that I had made.

Beer (above) is a spaceship I made a very long time ago at an art from scrap workshop. He is the first one I made.

Vroomy (Above) is a spaceship and I made him at a art from scrap workshop. He is the second vehicle I made.
This is Tanky Green, the third one I made, also at the art from scrap workshop. I made it out of a strawberry container, toilet paper tubes, and caps for small containers. I covered it in green tape to make it look more camouflaged.
This is Freighty, a spaceship I made at the art from scrap workshop right after Tanky Green. I don't know why I decided to make this one a freighter, maybe it was so that I could make him carry Tanky Green.
Next I made Tanky Red, the one you see here. I made him at the rental house that we had while we were evacuated from the fire. At that time the only materials I had were paper, pipe cleaners, and dental floss. Later I got some red tape and improved him and gave him his new name.
This is trucky, a jet-truck I made recently.
This is a flying saucer that I just finished and I am going to use for one of the vehicles in my craft economy of Andyroom.
It has a little window underneath it that you can see out of. The video below is taken by someone who was inside the flying saucer and looking out the window.

Friday, February 20, 2009

Crafts

Great honkin' moons of Jupeter, I haven't made a blog entry for such a long time I feel guilty. Anyway, I better start this one now without further apology so that I don't run out of time. Ruth and I have been making LOTS of crafts, sewing and stuffing people, building them houses, and constructing vehicles. I like making the houses and vehicles a lot more than I like sewing the people, so Ruthroom had a much bigger population than Andyroom. Oh, speaking of which, we're doing this "competing economies" thing where Ruth and I sort-of race to see which economy is the best. Don't worry, we're going about it with friendly intentions, but we do plan to have a Cold War somtime. Even though Ruth's population is larger than mine, I pride myself in vehicles and structures. I've got plenty of plans for houses, and I've started on a really great 2-story house, ith sort of a large attic. I'm almost done with my flying saucer, and I have started bulding this really cool transforming spaceship. I also am planning on modifying my paper vehicles so that they are useable. If you haven't read about my papr vehicles, click here or here or here.

Wednesday, February 4, 2009

Creamy Pasta

After I finished the previous post, I determinedly went about my quest to see dad put the cream into the Creamy Pasta, and dad thought I was acting strangely because he thought it was silly to be interested in seeing something that wasn't really worth seeing. But I accomplished my goal and satisfied my yearning even though is wasn't very interesting.

Interview with Ruth

O.K., today I think I will do an interview with Ruth. Here goes:

Andy: Hi Ruth

Ruth (hyper): HII, Wuzzup!

(Andy typing, Ruth looks over Andy's sholders and breaks out into a fit of giggles)

Dad (annoyed): OK that's enough, you guys don't have to be doing that.

Ruth (hurriedly):OK, sorry, I'll leave the room.

Well, that didn't get very far, and now Ruth is setting the table and Dad is finishing up on the Creamy Pasta. (YUM!!!!!!!!) He makes the cream separately, but the finished product is always in the pot when served, so I'm going to go hang around until I see him do it.

Sunday, February 1, 2009

Winter Camp

I am going to write in short sentences. I hope I'm not going crazy. The food was pretty yummy. We played football. (I'm not going to write in short sentences any more.) After a little bit, a bunch of girls joined then other team and started swarming around us like a pack of bees and tackling the tough-ish boys. It was really funny, and we started calling them the Girl Squad. There was a HUGE zip line, with a rickety spiral staircase going up to a big wooden platform. the zip line had four "lines", so four kids went on it at once. It was very scary until I left the platform, after that it was SUPER fun. We also watched a funny skit called Johnny Light Bulb that the camp leaders had made. Johnny Light Bulb was this guy with a big light bulb hat on his head that had to decide if he liked meat lovers or cheese better. On the last night we played a game where we had to collect "light filaments" to help Johnny Light Bulb survive his "little fall" he had after he resolved the war between meet lovers and cheese. It was really fun, we had to get the light filaments from the camp leaders and avoid the evil light robbers that looked a lot like our counselors from church. I had a great time at camp, and I could keep writing for a lot longer, but don't you think that I've said enough?

Winter Camp Introduction

OK, less description now, or I'll never get through the post. I slept in a cabin with bunk beds lining the walls, and the other kids that were in the same room with me were named Peter, a very smart kid who was friends with Noah, also in our cabin. Noah is very funny, and his "little line" that he used all the time was "NooOoO!!!". It was funny, because he said it in sort of the voice that you would use for saying "noooo.. really??" and also "noooo, duh!", but he mainly just used it for any time he wanted to give a negative response. The rest of the kids in my cabin were David, Owen, Drew, and somebody else, I don't remember his name. our counselors were named John and Anthony.

Friday, January 30, 2009

Winter Camp Part 2.5

OK, I'm taking a break.

Winter Camp Part 2

Well, 45 minutes after I got in the bus, we left the church parking lot. (It was a camp that oh.. what d'ya-call it.. Y'know- Sort of a camp were you learn about god and have fun. Anyway, I was sitting right by Peter and Noah, both very nice kids that I knew pretty well from Sunday School. Soon after we had gone a little ways, Peter started hosting a game of Mafia. I didn't know how to play, but they let me just learn as the game went on. Mafia is this great mystery game that I had a lot of fun playing, and if you want to look it up on the web, go for it, but I am NOT explaining it. It's very complicated, and I've had enough trying to explain it to my family. I'm getting off the point. We played Mafia for a while, and did Other Stuff, and then we got to WINTER CAMP!!!

Winter Camp Part 1

OK, so last Friday I left school right before lunch for camp pretty dejectedly; I was definitely having second thoughts about how much fun Winter Camp would be, knowing that the weather channel reported a low of 40 degrees where it was taking place. Even with the knowledge that there wasn't going to be any snow at winter camp, the suitcases were loaded on the bus and I got in the back and said goodbye to dad, I felt pretty exited.

Pre: Camp

I'm going to start working on some entries about Winter Camp, it might take a little while.

Sorry

Sorry I haven't posted in a million years, I was distracted and then I went to camp and then I was distracted again.

Sunday, January 18, 2009

Beeeeach!!!

We just got back from the beach and had a whoopin' good time! Sorry I haven't posted for a while, there's been so many fun things to do. Ruth and I got some really good waves, and some really good dunks. One of the most interesting dunks for me was when we were on the top of this really big wave, sort of looking over the edge of of a cliff. I freaked out and pulled back just in time, but Ruth shot over the edge and plummeted head-downward into the water. about a second later, Ruth's boogie board shot up like 5 feet in the air. On one of the other waves that was sort of like a cliff that we did catch, I went over the cliff and sort of bounced off the water at the bottom. When Ruth and I both catch a wave, we like to lean towards each other and "link up" by holding on to each other's boogie boards. once there was a big wave that we both caught, and I was leaning over, getting ready to link up with Ruth, when my boogie board shot out from under me. It happened right when I had grabbed her boogie board, so I was still hanging on after I lost my boogie board. And believe it or not, I caught that wave feeling like a sidecar of a motorcycle holding on to Ruth's boogie board.

Thursday, January 8, 2009

Zoo

Today we went to the Washington Zoo. It was really neat; my favorite animals were the beavers and the llamas. The beavers had this idea that they had to make a dam, as if they were living in the wild. It was so fun to watch them try to get the sticks up their little fake river, I felt as if I could watch them forever. The llamas were very active when we saw them, running around and tying their necks together. They were just climb all over each other, scrambling up someone's neck or trying to ride on each other's backs. We also saw a big ol' honkin hippo that would do nothing but eat, a scary tiger that was roaring strangely the whole time we were watching it, and some really pretty peacocks. There was a group of wild deer that you could see from the zoo, two fawns and about 6 does, that were fun to watch.

Wednesday, January 7, 2009

Washington D. C.

Well, we've been out here in Washington D. C. for about two days now. (We arrived Monday, at nine-o-clock) The 3-hour time change hasn't affected me as much as I thought it would.

Mom and Dad and Ruth and I are staying at this great little bed and breakfast hotel with creaky wooden floors and nooooo elevator. If you opened the door to our room and started to walk in, you would be in this sort-of long doorway with a ladder built into the wall leading up to the attic. Take one more step and there would be a sink to your right. the doorway opens up into a large room that has three beds in it. At the far end of the room there are a closet and a bathroom. It's fun to use the bathroom because there's no sink there so you have to go way over to the doorway thingy when you're ready to wash your hands.

Yesterday we went to the top of the Washington Monument and to the Natural History museum with Mom.

The natural history museum was really cool, We saw crinoids that were three feet long, a big tank of tropical fish, and a sculpture of a giant jellyfish in the sea section. We saw the real Hope Diamond, the largest blue diamond in the world, HUGE quartz crystals, and too much more in the endless corridors of the minerals section. We were all getting museum-itus by then.

The views from the windows of the Washington monument were spectacular. You could see so far, even when it was as foggy as it was then.

Today we went to the Air and Space museum and saw really cool things like the first plane that ever flew or the actual thing that landed on the moon. We saw this very interesting airplane that seems like it's made of toothpicks and plastic wrap. It's completely human powered, and the video of it shows it going about the speed of a bike three feet off the ground.

We also went to the Capitol building, but it's time to go to bed so Bye-bye.

Thursday, January 1, 2009

Survey

OK, Whoever voted Creamy Pasta for the survey, thank you for voting. I don't know if the reason why hardly anybody is voting on the surveys is that nobody reads by blog anymore or nobody likes the surveys or it's just confusing, but I think that I'll give up on them for now. Oh, and I almost forgot to say, on Christmas Eve I had Stuffed Sopapillas for dinner.

Happy New Year Every Body!!!

Good morning, 2008!

Mom and Dad are really tired because they stayed up till midnight!

There's a sign on Mom and Dad's door that says...

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

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(Oh, actually it doesn't have any weird symbols)