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.

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.

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.

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.

Some Funny Cartoons I Found

For this one you have to know your history a little; if you have questions just comment.
Pavlov Dog Cartoon

Are you a fan of Microsoft?

It's ironic that I should put this on my blog.

BOO TO LIBERAL PRESIDENTS!!!

Family Reunion July 2002

Here's some pictures I took of our photo album we made after we had our family reunion in 2002.

It was a long road trip.
The aquarium


Glass Beach







Redwood Forest



Picking blueberries

And eating them.
Blue eye!
My cousin Ben
Come see my sandcastle!
I'm the sandcastle queen!
Mom reading Ruth, Ben, and me a book called La La La
Playing in the woods


The lighthouse!
Aunt Liz's bug


Playing with a pink thingy


Flying a kite

Making crafts
My doogie machine!
Dad and Great Gran (Great Gran is my great-grandmother)
Dad makes a speech
Examining grandma's treasures
GRAND zip line!


Hmm... I wonder if Ben is having fun.
Swinging on Grandma's bench swing
Bye-bye Ben!
The museum
Deadly lions!
Cacti


Zzzzzz

The True Story of Sponge Bob!

I know I'm copying Heritage Growers a bit, but I still think that this story is a little unique. Well, here it is.

Once upon a time there was a sponge named Bob. he was growing happily on the bottom of the ocean when he was picked and shipped to Trader Joe's and was bought by the Andy and Ruth.

He scrubbed many dishes

until he got old and was thrown away.

The trash truck took him away,

and he ended up in the dump.

Then a garbage piker garbage picked him and when it was too old even for him he put it in someones pocket while they weren't looking. Then that person fell into the ocean and Bob fell out of his pocket.


Bob sunk to the bottom of the ocean and was soon found again by a Trader Joe's submarine.

By this time Bob was a nice new sponge again, so he was shipped back to Trader Joe's and bought by Andy and Ruth...