Action Stations Day

Last Tuesday we had a Action Station Day and tidied up the school. A action station day is when we tidy up the school and go down to the beach and pick up rubbish. In our class there were three groups and one of the groups tidied up the school, another tidied up the PE shed and another went to room 9 to mulch. My group was on the PE shed and this is what the PE shed looked like before we tideyed it:

And this is what the PE shed looked like after we tideyed it.  

I had trouble posting from overseas so my dad compiled the rest of my vacation posts into this single one.

July 10 2018 - Science World Museum

Today, I went to the Kids Science Museum in Vancouver. We spent all day there until nearly eight pm. My favorite part was a movie about pandas. It was called pandas. The movie was about some people trying to save giant pandas all over the world. I also liked the Pixar exhibit which shows you how animated movies are made.  For lunch I had a hotdog and some lemonade.

July 11, 2018 - Suspension Bridge Park and Bike Ride in Stanley Park

Today we went to the Suspension Bridge Park and went on a bike ride in Stanley Park. My favourite part was when we got ice cream in Stanley Park. On the suspension bridge we walked on big bridges that went from tree to tree up high in the air. Me and Nathan filled out a worksheet and then got a clip to pin onto our shirts. I got a pin with ladybugs on it and Nathan of one with ants. Did you know that the USA uses the most water per day in the world, Canada uses the second most amount of water per day. They use twice the amount of water as Europe. Also did you know that only 1% of the water in the whole entire world is drinkable. We saw some rescue birds that are being rehabilitated to work on farms, to eat insects, chase mice and other rodents out of the farming area. We saw an owl named Lucy and two different types of falcons that we don't know the names of. We watched as they switched handlers and her massive, but elegant wings flapped, she became more 'talkative' and alert hoping for food, and started biting the gloves of the handlers.  The main suspension bridge connecting the two sides of the canyon was constructed so well that it could hold the equivalent weight  of 96 elephants and its length was the size of two 747 airplanes side by side from wingtip to wingtip. 

July 17

Hi again. Today we went on a 9 mile hike in Idaho called West Fork Peak.  At first we couldn't find the trail so I suggested that we go to the amusement park Silverwood today and do the hike tomorrow. But dad said that we were going to do the hike today. We decided to stop at a house and ask them if they knew where the trail was. While dad was talking to one of the men, me and mum were playing with the puppies and Grammy and Nathan were in the car. When we finally got to the hike it was an hour later than we wanted to of started it. When we were really close to the top of the hike me and mum heard a sort of growling noise we thought that it was a bear but it was actually a humming bird with a very low pitched hum that sound like a growl. The views from the top were amazing. On one side you could see the beautiful mountain range and on the other side you could see more beautiful mountains. Over all the views were worth the long hot walk up.

View from Top of West Fork Peak

Coeur d'Alene July 18

Hi. Today we went to an amusement park called Silverwood. The first ride that I did was with dad and Grammy it was called the Panic Plunge. The Panic Plunge is when they strap you into a seat and then they bring you up really high in the air and then all of a second they drop you straight down at a really high speed and your stomach gets left at the top of the ride. The second ride that we did was the was the Timber Terror.

25 July Boise Idaho (ID)

Today me Nathan and dad went on a float ride which is when you sit in a tube, a raft, a kayak or any floatable object and float down a stream or river and have the water take you down it. Dad and Nathan rented a two person kayak and I rented a tube. When we got on the river I couldn’t control where I was going so I kept floating away from Dad and Nathan. As soon as we got close to the first drop (which is a little drop in the water) Dad tied one end of the rope he had brought to my tube and the other one to the kayak. The drops look scary but they are not that bad. Before we left the person rented us the tube and the kayak said that when we get to a drop that we need to go in the middle of the river. So we went in the middle of the river and it was good that we did that because on right hand side there were sticks and stones but on the left we would of been fine but it’s always better safe then sorry. At some parts of the river it was really deep but in other parts it was really shallow (at one point it was so shallow that we had to drag our our floats behind us.) When we came to a bridge we saw teenage kids jumping of of it into the water. The water was about 50 degrees but outside the water it was over 100. When we got to the end we saw Mum standing on the bridge waiting. After we returned the rafts and changed out of our bathing suits we went to get ice cream at Ben and Jerrys. The ice cream that I got Chocolate Therapy with is: Chocolate ice cream with chocolate cookies and swirls of chocolate pudding ice cream. I also got Phish Food with is: Chocolate ice cream with gooey marshmallow  swirls, caramel swirls and fudge fish. After that Uncle CC (Uncle Christian) and Grandpa came over for dinner. Over all it was a fun day.   

July 26 Boise Idaho (ID)

Today we went on a white water rafting trip in Horseshoe Bend with Uncle CC (Uncle Christian). The original trip was canceled due to wild fires but the white water rafting people made up a new trip that was also a 5 hour rafting trip. Before we got into the water every group was assigned a rafting guide. When all the groups where with their rafting guides we got to chose the guide that we wanted to go with. The rafting guide that we chose was named Tanner. The first half of the trip was more like a float and there was only one class three rapid all the rest were twos and ones. After the first half we brought our rafts up onto a trailer and rode back bin a bus to the place where we started for lunch (the lunch was provided by the company and it was really good.) After lunch we drove up river to get to the next half on the rafting trip. The next half of the rafting trip was mostly class twos and threes. One of the the class two rapids was called Fluffy White Bunny Rabbits. One class there was called stay to the left or your fired and another class three rapid was called AMF (Adios My Friend.) I got to name one of the class two rapids and I named it The Summer of destiny. After the rafting trip we went out to dinner with Grandpa and Uncle CC (Uncle Christian). Over all it was a fun day.     

Vancouver to Coeur d'Alene

Thursday 12 July 2018
We went on a 7 mile hike called St. Marks Peak over Howe Sound. The walk was in the forest and we had to make lots of noise so that bears don't get surprised by us and try to attack. We made up three songs to the toon 'God Bless America'. This is the first song that we made up is this: God bless my underwear, my only pair, stand beside her and guide her through the night with the light from above, from the washer to the dryer to the clothesline bright with sun. God bless my underwear my only pair. The second one was about a banana slug that we saw along our walk: God bless banana slugs they are so cute, they are yellow, like jello, and when you cook them they taste like marshmallow. The next one we made up was about Nathan: God bless our Nathan bear my only bro stand beside him and guide him through the night with the light from above, from the shower to the towel to the iPad which he loves. God bless my Nathan bear my only bro.  When we got to the top the view was amazing--better than I expected it to be. On the way down, we stopped at a lookout. At the lookout we met some people who told us about a place called Honey and that it was famous for its donuts. So of course we went there.


Friday 13 July 2018
Today was a travel day. We went from Canada to Coeur d'Alene Idaho (the land of potatoes). Before we left that day we went to the place called Honey to get some donuts for the road. Mum ran in and got 3 chocolate, 2 glazed and 1 maple because Canada is known for its maple syrup. When we got close to the border line there was lots of traffic because lots of people were trying to cross the border as well. After we crossed the border line me and Nathan got to go on our iPads for a while. Then the roads got really windy so we stopped watching. We stopped at a lookout and then kept driving. Later that night at like 11pm Grammy's flight landed and dad brought her to the house, but we were already asleep.

Saturday 14 July 2018
We got to see Grammy! I woke up and Nathan kept asking Grammy when we could open the presents that she brought us. As soon as we were dressed she gave us the presents to unwrap--including our early birthday presents. Grammy gave me: an American Girl doll, which I named Meghan; a gymnastics leotard; some clothes; and a gymnastics leotard, tracksuit and shoes for Meghan (she also already comes with clothes on her). At about 11am we went downtown to a playground, a waterpark and the beach on a lake. We stopped to play at the waterpark and the playground so we walked around trying to find a place for lunch. For lunch, I had a all beef American hot dog and a wild berry smoothie (which was way to sweet for me.) That evening, we went to see a local production of Guys and Dolls. The main reason we went to see it was because Nathan Detroit was the main character in it and my brothers name is Nathan. When we were little, my Grandma Lybrook gave us a CD of the music from Guys and Dolls that we listened to everyday when Daddy drove us to school.

Sunday and Monday, 15-16 July 2018
We did bike rides on rail trails both days. The first day was around Lake Coeur d'Alene and the second day we road through Idaho and Montana on the Trail of the Hiawathas. My favourite one was around Lake Coeur d'Alene because we got ice-cream and got to swim in the lake. The type of ice-cream that I got was Huckleberry and Chocolate. (The two mixed together don't taste very pleasant but on their own they taste divine.)

Ozette Triangle July 7

Hi, today I am going to tell you about the hike that we did on today.  The today was called the Ozette Triangle. The Ozette triangle was a nine mile hike, three miles in the forest, three miles on the beach and three miles in the forest again. The hike was a easy hike it wasn't a rigorous hike, it was a nice slow easy hike. There were no up and downs it was all flat but by the end of it your legs were aching it was like they had been chopped off. The walk in the forest was very peaceful for the first five minutes and then we started talking about if we might see any wild animals and then that ruined the peacefulness of the forest. We did the three miles of the forest in about an hour and a half to two hours. When we got to the beach Nathan climbed a sea stack while me, mum and dad had our sandwiches. When Nathan got to the top dad put his sandwich down ( which was a bad idea) to take Nathan's photo from on top of the sea stack and a crow came and took dads sandwich. After that Nathan went up a second time and went down a different way and fell on his rear end but he didn't cry ( I have such a brave little brother don't I). When we were walking along the beach dad wanted us to take a photo of me, mum and Nathan with the sea in the background. After the photo I saw something move in the distance for a second I thought it was a black stone but then I realized it was a bear! We all thought that it was a cub but then I saw that it had baby bears! The cubs were so adorable! Then dad got his camera out and gave it to me so that I could zoom in on the cubs and the mama bear! When the mama bear and the cubs went into the long grass mum said this is our chance to get past. So we walked past making loud human noises and singing song that didn't sound anything like they were supposed to. As we walked past I looked over at the bears and the one of the cubs climbed half way up a tree and then slid back down again. When we got back into the forest part of the hike we past a lot of camp sites and people coming to camp over night. After the hike we went out to a camp ground and got ice cream. Over all it was a very interesting and tiring hike.

 

Cape Flattery and Macaw July 6

Hola, it's me again. I am going to tell you about what I did today. Today me and my family went on a
walk in Neah Bay which is 

the most northwestern part of the USA. When we got there, me and Nathan had to go to the toilet.
When I opened the door to the women's bathroom it was disgusting, absolutely awful. So I held it
in for the walk. Before we started the walk there was this 

information board that had lots of information about the walk on it. There were also sticks that the
park rangers had found and they decorated it with string and made it so that you can use them on
the walk for free. Or you can pay five dollars or more to keep the 

stick. On the way to the end of the trail, me and Nathan sang Christmas songs. When we got to a
lookout we saw a type of rare bird called Murres that nest in the cliffs. When we got to the top
we saw an island with a lighthouse on it. Apparently somebody stole the light from inside the
lighthouse so they had to buy a new light. The walk was on the Macaw Indian Reservation. After
the hike we went to their Native American museum and learned about there history. Over all it was a
fun day. 

Hoh Rainforest

Hi it's me again, I am going to tell you about what I did yesterday. Yesterday, we went to the Olympic National Rainforest. We did a couple of hikes, well they weren't really hikes, they were more like walks. We didn't do a hard hike because we needed to have a rest from the past two days of nonstop hiking. The three hikes that we did were: (1) 'The Hall of Mosses' (2) 'Ruby Beach' and (3) 'Kalaloch Beach'. Before we went on the first walk, we attended a ranger program and learned about Elk. On 'The Hall of Mosses' walk, we picked wild blueberries, wild salmonberries, wild huckleberries and wild blackberries. The Hall of Mosses had moss all over the trees. The second walk was Ruby Beach. It had huge sea stacks, tide pools with sea stars, sea anemones and mussels in them. Me, mum, Nathan and dad tried to make a bridge across a little stream on the beach. The third beach was Kalaloch Beach and we sat on the rocks and did our junior ranger booklets. Just before we were going to leave we saw a seal's head pop out from underneath the water. Then we went on a 2 minute walk to see the largest Cedar Tree in the world. Over all, it was a nice relaxing day. See you next time.

    Me on a Sea Stack                                    A Salmonberry                                    Biggest Cedar Tree

                                                                                          

Sunrise Point

Hi there, I am about to tell you about the hike that I did two days ago. The hike two days ago was at the Olympic National Park near Port Angeles in Washington State, America. The name of the hike was the Switchback Trail to Kalhane Ridge and Sunrise Point. It was a magical experience for me. First we walked up the steep Switchback Trail to the mountain ridge. When we got to the ridge line some mountain goats followed us along the trail. The ridge line trail was very narrow and steep, so we had to walk single file. Then we walked along the ridge toward Sunrise Point. There were beautiful wildflowers all different colours such as pink, orange, yellow, violet, indigo, red, blue, purple, soft pink and peach. On the way, we stopped to take photos with the Olympic Mountains in the background on one side of us and a view into Canada on the other side of us. We stopped for lunch on a hill not that far away from Sunrise Point but the view was spectacular so I wondered how much better the view could be from the top. For lunch mum, dad and Nathan had PB and J sandwiches and cheese, crackers, strawberries and Oreos, whereas I only had cheese, crackers, strawberries and Oreos. After lunch we made our way to Sunrise point. The view from the top was amazingly spectacular--you wouldn't even know how mind blowing and beautiful it was.

After that at 9 pm we went down to the downtown area to see the fireworks for the 4 of July ( America's Independence Day). As the fireworks exploded in the sky you could see many beautiful colours of red, white, blue, purple, gold, silver, orange, green and many more amazing colours. Over all, it was an extraordinary day full of excitement and experience. Bye--and see you next time!