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.