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:

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.)

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.

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.

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.

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.